Art: science, religion, philosophy

Art:religion, science, and philosophy.

Art does not belong in only one category. The same way science is an art, religion and a
philosophy; philosophy is an art, a science and a religion; and religion is a philosophy,
an art and science.

Everything I do, I do to get all four to cohabitate. They can't be separated from each
other.

Of course some pieces will have one concept that might be more emphasized then the
others, but there can really be no one without the other.

Not only that, but art is what you do with your hands.

No matter what you do, it can be art, as long as you do it with the respect that art,
religion, science and philosophy deserve. The difference in between an artist taking out
the trash and the normal person taking out the trash is that the artist may put enough
care into how he takes the trash out so that it becomes an art in and of itself.

It is important however to be careful and not get too confused on the use I make of the
words respect, art, religion, science and philosophy, especially when used together. Art
does not require 5 genuflection before you site, followed by three prayers of how
E=MC^2 and how we think, therefor we are. However, art can be all of those at the
same time or separate, as long as the respect is there. And again, the word respect
needs to be understood, for art can be created with violence, lack of thought, and lack
of respect. But to become art as such, it needs the respect of the public, the viewer.
Of course that respect can also be disrespect when the artist is trying to create such a
feeling in the viewer, and if successful, then his work can also be considered good art.

Art as a religion:

Art has it's cathedrals, it's followers, and it's fanatics. Art is worshiped just like the
gods and goddesses and has bibles, toras and Korans written about it.

I'll take for the example of a bible of art my art history reading book 'Art in Theory,
1900 - 1990, an Anthology of Changing Ideas' by Harrison & Wood. It is a thick book, of
1189 pages, that covers many different social, philosophical, and scientific concepts
that art can portray. Just like the Bible in Christianism does not say what religion is,
but instead gives concepts which, put together, can be interpreted by it's reader as a
philosophy, a way of life; 'Art in Theory' does not say what art has to be to be good art,
just what it can be to be good art.

My favorite examples of art cathedrals are to my opinion, but not limited to: MOMA,
San Francisco's Museum of Modern Arts; Guggenheim Museum, in New York;
Sagrada Familia cathedral, by Gaudi in Barcelona (this one in fact is a cathedral for
both art and religion and still is not completed). One important thing to understand
when I refer to those places as art cathedrals, is that they are not such because of the
size of the buildings, but because of the worshiping of art that takes place in those
buildings. In fact the building itself can be the worshiped piece of art.

An art's pope would be to me Leonardo Da Vinci. He represents through all of his work
the religion, science, and philosophy humanly imaginable. He pioneered on art in
techniques and engineering in such a matter that some of his designs were not decades
but in fact centuries ahead of his time. We recently discovered that he had designed a
self powered car, but not until recently did a team of Italian researchers manage to
decrypt the for-mentioned designs.

Art as a science:

Science is the application of a set of rules that can be proven according to observation and experimentation.

If my concept of 'everything done with your hands is an art' holds true, then science is
no exception. It follows it's own rules and philosophies, but is in no way distinguishable
from art. Science can be, and if fact is, brought into art galleries and put up on walls.
Everything done in science, from the Western European science of medicine, to the
science of engineering sky scrapers, passing by the science of space travel, all of those
are forms of art.

See my art on computer science as one example.

See my art on numerical science as one other example.

But art follows it's own set of rules, from how a specific medium is to be used, to how
it will play with it's viewers feelings and emotions. As such, art follows a science that
can be broken to create a new set of rules, but ironically that new set of rules will
still depend on the old set of rules, since the viewer has to have a basis to approache the
piece of art.

Art as a philosophy:

Philosophy is an extremely important aspect of art. If we did not live according to a set
of rules, we would have chaos. Art is the same way. It needs a set of rules to become
ordered, and those set of rules can be applied to every day life.

·A Buddhist student went to his master and teacher and asked:'Master, why do we spend
so much time learning how to paint, and learning good archery, and learning all of those
other skills that we really do not need, since we will all die and none of the skills I am
speaking about help us survive?'His master replied:'Because if we did not, how then
would we appreciate the sun rise and the sun set?'(free memory translation of an
excerpt of the book: 'Le doigt et la Lune' by Alexandro Jodorovsky.)

The point of this story, apart from the fact that it is an art piece in and of itself, is that
if we do not learn appreciation of beauty through art, we can not appreciate the beauty
of our world. We then use art as a means to transcend ourselves, and to become one
with our surroundings. Art is then a way of living, or also known as a philosophy.