Exploring Science and Art Discovering Connections Between the Nature of Science and the Science of Art

What do Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso have in common? Can we learn about science by studying art? Are there connections still waiting to be discovered between the natural world and artistic techniques used for centuries? Science and art—often viewed at odds with one another. So much so that sometimes people believe there is a division in brain hemispheres that makes one good at one and not the other. Exploring Science and Art: Discovering Connections Between the Nature of Science and the Science of Art is a venture of discovery. Author and retired science educator, Mary Kirsch Boehm, guides readers through an examination of science with an artistic eye, introducing an integrated and often overlooked view of the two disciplines. Investigating the materials and techniques of art and the science behind them, Boehm allows readers to discover for themselves, just how our interconnected our world really is.

Mary Kirsch Boehm can detect the presence of an art museum from miles away, and she has done so during her travels around the world for many decades. Armed with art books, she trekked solo from museum to museum through Europe during the 1960s, and her passion for art has never diminished. Born in Lockport, New York, the retired science teacher has science degrees from both Buffalo State College and the University at Buffalo and is now a docent at the renowned Albright-Knox Art Museum in Buffalo, New York.