• Question: Do you like art?

    Asked by needforspeed to Lewis, Jess, Ian, Divya, Clare on 17 Mar 2014.
    • Photo: Jess Smith

      Jess Smith answered on 17 Mar 2014:

      Yes, I like art a lot. Well some of it!

      I like paintings with a lot of colour (especially landscapes), or that make an interesting observation or point (Banksy).

      I think art and science work together really well. Microscope images can be really beautiful. Slightly unrelated but I like that if you don’t have a scale bar then sometimes it is hard to know if you are looking at the microstructure of a metal, or a shot of the earth from high up!

    • Photo: Lewis Dean

      Lewis Dean answered on 17 Mar 2014:

      Yes, I do like art. I used to live in London and would love going to some of the amazing galleries there. I am not very good at art, but I know many scientists (including my boss) who are also really good artists.

    • Photo: Ian Hands-Portman

      Ian Hands-Portman answered on 17 Mar 2014:

      Oh yes, I love sculpture. I really like Jacob Epstein and Elizabeth Frink. I dabble in art myself sort of – I make odd bits of jewellery now and then, mostly silver, on holiday once my wife found some pieces of jet so I mounted them in a necklace.
      I also made our wedding rings – the most expensive mistake I’ve made – not the wedding! You start by making the thing out of wax then set in in plaster and melt the wax out so you can pour the gold in, I miscalculated how heavy the rings would be when cast in gold and needed twice as much as I thought. ( mind you they are very nice rings )

    • Photo: Clare Nevin

      Clare Nevin answered on 17 Mar 2014:

      Yes I do. I go to life drawing classes and love to draw a bit here and there but I’m probably not very good!

    • Photo: Divya Venkatesh

      Divya Venkatesh answered on 18 Mar 2014:

      Yeah! I don’t really ‘get’ modern art that much — but some stuff is amazing. I think Salvador Dali is my current favourite – because his paintings are so bizarre (that kind of art is called surrealism). https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Salvador+Dali&client=firefox-a&hs=dFF&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=hjgoU_I5hsmEB63NgOgB&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1280&bih=920#q=salvador%20dali%20work&revid=1566206533&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-GB%3Aofficial&tbm=isch&imgdii=_

      I did sketching when I was younger but I wasn’t very good at it. And a few years ago, I just randomly bought a set of paints, brushes and stuff and decided I was going to learn how to paint by watching youtube videos! As you can imagine, I was not very successful 🙂

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