“Drawing and the Brain,” a symposium gathering artists, architects, and scientists convenes to discuss the primacy of the sketch as the creative tool of invention and discovery in architecture. The ...
In 1894, Santiago Ramón y Cajal stated that the “cerebral cortex is similar to a garden filled with innumerable trees, the pyramidal cells, which can multiply their branches thanks to intelligent ...
A publication from Abrams Books and a traveling exhibit currently at the Weisman Art Museum highlight the medical illustrations of Santiago Ramón y Cajal. Cover of The Beautiful Brain (courtesy Abrams ...
For some people, creating art is a passion, for others it's a hobby, and the rest would prefer to just admire art made by someone else. If you fall into that last category and haven't made art since ...
Your brain's reward pathways become active during art-making activities like doodling, according to a new Drexel University study. Girija Kaimal, EdD, assistant professor in the College of Nursing and ...
Art and science can seem so different. Scientists work in teams, in the laboratory; their progress is piecemeal and, by-and-large, they know how to measure its occurrence. Art, so often at least, in ...
In 1979, Betty Edwards published the book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, which remains the preeminent book on the subject of drawing for beginners. In the book, Edwards argues that there are ...
A lot of my free time is spent doodling. I'm a journalist on NPR's science desk by day. But all the time in between, I am an artist — specifically, a cartoonist. I draw in between tasks. I sketch at ...
Eighty turn-of-the-century drawings by the Spanish neuroscientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal are currently on display at the Ackland, offering a unique vantage into the intersecting fields of art and ...
Asking scientists what career they would have pursued if they hadn’t gone into science is a crapshoot: It can either stop the conversation cold or uncork misty-eyed reminiscences about the road not ...
On a recent visit to the Museum of Science in Valencia, Spain, I saw an exhibit of original drawings by Santiago Ramon y Cajal, the great Spanish neurobiologist. They took me on a distinctive inward ...
In 1979, Betty Edwards published the book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, which remains the preeminent book on the subject of drawing for beginners. In the book, Edwards argues that there are ...