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From: Katie Heintz
Date: 10/5/2003
Time: 3:22:29 PM
Remote Name: 199.44.215.199
I think there is a difference between art as a fine art, and art as a science, if that makes any sense. I am a biology major, and I use art every day in laboratory to draw what I see in my microscope, or the animal I have dissected, into my lab book. I am definitely not a good artist when it comes to drawing landscapes or people, but I have trained myself to draw a fairly good representation of what I see in the laboratory in order to study it accurately at a later date. This is what Da Vinci considered "art as a science". It was using art to understand the world around him. It was not just interpreting the world, as they teach in art class. Because of this, I agree with calling the art classes we take in high school a fine art as opposed to a science. Never once in these classes do you learn about the anatomy of the face before you draw a self-portrait.