Give yourself a quiet moment to read this article by Johan Lehrer: “The Future of Science…Is Art?” It treats the “two cultures” of the sciences and the arts, touching an array of topics relevant to TOK. Originally published in January 2008, the essay is reproduced today in Seed Magazine. It’s a pleasure to read and leaves you with a vision of interaction between these two areas of knowledge.
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Greg is a friend, colleague, and fellow DP art teacher and examiner, and I have known him for a number of years. I have been consistently delighted by, and impressed with, his passion for our subject – visual arts – so I invited him to contribute something to this blog, and I am pleased to report that he has indeed written a thoughtful and thought-provoking piece.
Please welcome our first ‘Guest Blogger’ – Greg Morgan!
Hmmm – let’s say that a painting has appeared rather suddenly and the student responsible is not offering a very convincing explanation of where it came from.
There are no preliminary sketches, no notes or discussions in the workbook, and no references to images and/or text sources that might have informed the idea.
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