What comes first, scientific protocols or images so haunting that they conjure questions requiring answers? I think beauty is what drives us to discover something new. Targeted research makes use of existing knowledge and leads us away from pursuit of beauty by convincing us that technology will bring us to new truths. How can we search for that which we neither know nor can recognize? Is beauty that which leads us to inquire? Or, is ignorance what makes an unexpected finding particularly beautiful. The beauty of an image never seen or imagined before, is what leads some of us to discover. If these aesthetic images from the immune system motivate others to imagine and conjure new ideas in immunology then this web site will become a valuable educational resource for students in the biological sciences.

LINKS to FINE ART WEB SITES and VIRTUAL MUSEUMS

This site also sustains a theme about creativity and the interrelatedness of imagery in Art and Science. The Art theme can be followed by clicking on the hyperlinks to artist's names or questions about their work. e.g. Sandro Botticelli, Adolphe- William Bouguereau, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Buonarroti, Paul Cezanne, and Salvador Dali. Here's a page by an "ArtnScientist", Hunter O'Reilly, whose paintings I first saw on the cover of a molecular biology journal that bore her publication. Another "scientific" artist is Chuck Close who created a new dimension of portrait art. His immense photorealist paintings of friends were made with multitudes of small graphics that presaged pixels used in computer images.

You can find answers to the questions [#1. "What do Art and Science have in common?"; #2. "When is Art Science?"; and, #3. "Can you see similarities in the way Cezanne perceived 'The Bathers' and 'Still Life with Fruit'.?"

Here is a list of Art Museums with excellent content you can access via the WWW: The National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C; The Louvre Museum, Paris; Fine Art Resources on the Internet; Carol Gerten's Virtual Art Museum; Mark Harden's Art-chive; Rodin Museum, Paris; The Complete Van Gogh Collection and, last but not least, the wonderful Webmuseum Bienvenue! from Nicolas Pioch. Also, you must see the sculptures of Auguste Rodin on exhibit in Venice and those by Gustav Vigeland that are in Frogner Park in Oslo Norway.
 

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