The future of science………is art?
Great article in seed magazine about how art can provide answers to fundamental questions in science by Jonah Lehrer, author of “How we decide”
http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/the_future_of_science_is_art/
The tragedy, 1903, by Picasso
Artists have known for a very long time that color and luminance can be treated independently. Our perception of depth, three-dimensionality, movement (or the lack of it), and spatial organization are all carried by a subdivision of our visual system that is essentially color-blind, and sees the world in shades of gray. This is an evolutionarily older part of our visual system. One cannot see depth or motion in the absence of luminance contrast. In Picasso’s The Tragedy, one can appreciate the three-dimensionality of the scene because, despite the peculiar choice of colors, the luminance is just right.—Margaret Livingstone, Neuroscientist, Harvard University ©
