Fly 2 You 92! Sky's The Limit! : Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Trip)

Last semester, I had the opportunity to travel to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. It was very interesting how artists created their work, and I never thought that art and science is connected. There are many ways science and the arts are similar. Einstein said that true genius comes from imagination. Without it, scientists wouldn't have any ideas of where to go next in their research, and artists wouldn't be able to express themselves. Both areas affect each other. Even though we do not think of art and science being connected, there has long been a connection between art and science The interaction between art and science flows in one direction, that artists become interested in science, its methods and concepts, and incorporate them in loose ways within their own work, but that science gains little to nothing from art.

I'm honestly not that creative when it comes time for me to make an art piece, but I was absolutely blown away by some of these pieces! When I was there, I saw a sculpture that an artist made out of driftwood in a river. The artist created a person sitting on a chair out of the driftwood. I want to know what's going through their heads when they see a piece of driftwood and want to make something beautiful out of it! To create something like that take so much talent and time. I wouldn't even know where to begin. What do they see that I can't? It is definitely a fine line between using the imagination and creativeness to make a concept and then using science to construct it.

I also find fascination with the connection between art and engineering.As you guys already know; I'm a huge aviation buff and there's a giant connection between the arts of aircraft in the engineering side of it. For example, Howard Hughes was big in the aviation industry he developed many different types of aircraft and so much more. Usually, his concept for all of his aircraft would be hand-drawn on the back of a cocktail napkin or scrap piece of paper. Art is more about the imagination and creativeness of our minds and engineering is using science to construct our imaginations into real-life concepts!