Art and science interaction

In our century of rapid development of science and technology, allencompassing media, it would seem difficult to surprise us with something new. And the new every day inexorably and noisy invades our lives. And yet the world is infinitely richer and more diverse than all the latest discoveries in science, technology, culture and art. It confuses even modern science fiction. Paradoxically? But it is so. Paradoxes always express something unexpected, diverging from the established, generally accepted. Knowledge is above all human activity. It is he, a person who in all available ways, in historical ways, masters and humanizes reality. Man created two truly powerful means of knowing nature and himself - science and art.Art originated before science, it first absorbed all forms of human knowledge.

Why are they subsequently divided? The answer to this question must be sought in the study of the history of human knowledge itself. The story itself is nothing but the activity of a person pursuing his goals. Not history, it is a person, a real, living person who has mastered, lived in the earthly world, drew all his knowledge, sensations and so on from the sensual world and the experience gained from this world. He tried to arrange the world around him so that a person in him would learn and assimilate the truly human, so that he would know himself as a person.

The main thing is that science in the future technological society will undoubtedly reveal the secrets of man, and therefore the secrets of art will be defeated in its rivalry with science and in the comprehension of human psychology.What then remains to art? Maybe it will still retain some of its value in the aesthetic development of the world? After all, the fields of activity of science and art do not coincide, but after all, the existence of an obsolete and therefore only incomplete knowledge simultaneously with knowledge comprehending the real state of affairs is impossible. Very unattractive “rationalistic”, “deindividualized”, deprived of all the infinite riches of sensual, emotional human life, cold technological civilization, which is promised to our distant descendants.

What gave us a long-term discussion of researchers of this problem? Its fruitfulness is undoubted. The discussion not only acutely posed one of the most cardinal and urgent problems of interrelation and interaction of art and science -two powerful forms of human consciousness and transformation of reality, but also singled out the most complicated problems, which then began to be studied in a more detailed form. Let us listen to the wise words of Goethe: “It is said that Truth is between two opposing opinions. In no case! Between them lies the problem. ”Thus, approaching Truth means exploring the problem in its real, historical development.