Elisha is a Second Year student of Chemical Engineering. She believes that live
music is transcendent and good food
is everything. She also says ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ is a pool of
infinite wisdom.
By Elisha George
S
entimentality holds little
place in a college of logic driven individuals. The subtle
precision of lines and nuances of colors seem trivial in a
world of defined assumptions, probabilities and structure; where
art is thought of as being an expression of the abstract. It’s regarded as something separate from the science that forms the
basis of our learning and education. Naturally, opinions and
their intensity differ amongst individuals but let’s consider a sample of clichés – they are what a society is characterized by.
The scientific method urges one to extrapolate from a known
body of facts in order to come to substantial conclusions. It follows
a certain procedure – the question, the hypothesis, the prediction,
the experiment, and finally, the analysis – that has proved to be a
reliable way of going about business in the research community.
This structured and systematic approach to a problem or situation
is adapted to various degrees in a horde of fields forming a list that
the Arts rarely feature in.
Our sample group doesn’t associate Art with structure. To
them an artist can be a pseudo-talent who glorifies the freedom of
his work and advertises its ambiguity. Technical analysis of his subject matter can come across as pretentious and it verges on impossible to ever define what the artist was trying to say with the discrete
shapes strewn across a blank canvas. And they’re not wrong.
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