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Pollock's Blue Pole Painting While art and science may seem as though they have nothing in common, there are a surprising number of overlaps if you take the time to look for them. As someone with a background in science and math as opposed to art, finding these crossovers between the subjects has really helped me appreciate art in a new way. A great example of this is Jackson Pollock's work with drip painting. I have seen Pollock's work before but I have always been in the category of people who criticize his abstract form for being meaningless and able to be done by anyone. His paint drips, however, contain much more complexity (fractals) than I previously thought. This intricacy makes the painting infinitely more interesting to me because it is no longer just random paint splatters in my mind. Fractals in architecture Besides providing another aspect to the paintings that make them interesting, fractals are also inherently aesthetically-pleasing patterns. This ...

While C. P. Snow divides the world in art and science and places these two groups at odds with each other, I don't see his writings as inherently being about art and science. Instead, I interpret his discussion as being a distinction between traditionalism and modernism and his argument as a frustration with traditionalism and its results. Sacred writing of the Baha'i faith discussing traditionalism vs. modernism He is not alone in making this argument and he is also not the first. A relatively new religion, Baha'i, which began in Iran in the mid-1800's, has been attempting to address the problem of traditionalism vs. modernism in the context of religion for the last 150 years. The Baha'i faith even has a similar position, arguing that modernism must be embraced and combined with traditionalism. This combination of modernism and traditionalism is comparable to Snow's own prediction that there will eventually be third culture which bridges the gap betwe...