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Title 2: For artists and natural scientists, which is more important: what can be explained or what cannot be explained? Discuss with reference to the arts and the natural sciences

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Title 2: For artists and natural scientists, which is more important: what can be

explained or what cannot be explained? Discuss with reference to the arts and the

natural sciences

Natural scientists and Artists show importance to both what can be explained and

cannot be explained. Natural scientists show more importance to the explainable, as

it allows further advancements due to new discoveries that are proven and well-

supported by the scientific explanation. Without the unexplainable there wouldn’t be

any discoveries as they aim to explain the unexplainable through scientific means

with supporting evidence. Artist show more importance to what cannot be explained,

since they can explain themselves through art as a method, but artist still explain

what can be explained through different depictions and interpretations. In this essay,

the word “explained” will indicate the detailed reasoning while “importance” as

something of greater value or significance. For this essay aims to explore by

referring to Arts and Natural sciences whether what can or cannot be explained has

more importance to artist or natural scientists, because natural scientists use

scientific means to explain the unexplainable, while artists use imagination and

human emotions.

Artist undergo the creative process of creating a piece of work to explore and

express their reality and experiences through imagination and emotions. Artists tend

to hold different opinions and aims to share with the audience. However, the

audience may interpret the art piece differently, a completely different perception and

concept than what was intended and it may still be consider as a true or vaild

interpretation, which is what makes art so unique. Religious art focuses on

metaphoric claims about the world and the religion, this art form tends to be lost due

to its subjective nature and every person’s interpretation tends to be different and is

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, highly influenced by their culture and background. In western culture, the artist

Raphael in 1516-20 created a biblical art piece titled “The Transfiguration” depicting

Jesus and his disciple going to a secluded place, so then Jesus could show

evidence of his divinity, where his appearance was radiantly transformed into a

dazzling whiter clothes then he had on before(Museivaticani.va, 2023). Being an

atheists, I interpreted Raphael’s art piece differently, as the upper part of Raphael’s

piece as intended while the lower part, as people asking or begging for Jesus’s help.

While Raphael depiction is accurate based on the time it was painted, Carl Bloch

who also created The Transfiguration in 1820, somewhat illustrated the same

message as Rafael did on Jesus’ transformation and evidence of divinity, but Bloch’s

painting had a different lower half in comparison to Raphael’s painting. We can

assume that due to the time difference, 300 year and the changes made to the Bible

during that time had influenced the explanation of this painting and the way it is

interpreted, as metaphorical claims are too vague to explain, allowing people depict

and interpretate religion differently based on their beliefs, even if they're to share the

same religion. This portrays that even though artist create pieces of art that is

unexplainable it is still important to them, as art is a powerful method that activates

the creative process of creating a piece of work to explore and express reality and

experiences through imagination and emotions of what is unexplainable.

Music is another powerful method in which artist use harmony, and expression of

emotions to express creativity, experiences and explain the unexplainable, human

emotions, as it is left up to interpretation. This raises the statement “music is able to

explain human feelings better than any other discipline can explain”, since a

scientific method would not be able to convey how it can actually feel to have

depression, be heartbroken or have anxiety. Through music artists can explain their

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