This series of 8 videos describes how painting started in prehistory, the human process of creating the sense of space its geometry and thus modern science, and how modern painters explored the human mind in parallel to modern neuroscience. Art and science share much of human features, imagination, discipline and skills and the search of reality.
The first talk starts from prehistoric painting to the Roman realism.
The second talk describes the decadence of reality painting with the decadence of the Roman empire and the advent of Christianity all the way to the recovery of painting in the Renaissance with the development of geometry of perspective, leading by the 1700s to an almost perfection of painting of the real world.
Part 3 covers the consequences of geometry of space for the development of Physics with Galileo, Descartes and Newton.
The 4th session describes the extension of geometry beyond Euclides to describe the universe and the development of fractal geometry to describe the complexity of real things in the world.
Part 5 covers the development of Chaos Theory to describe the dynamics of complexity in the natural world and the development of graphic ways to portray such dynamic events as spatio-temporal maps to generate 4-dimensional structures as a suitable way to investigate any natural phenomena.
Part 6 returns to the history of painting with the discovery in the 1800 by the impressionistic painters that the observer can fill in missing details. In the 20th Century Painting reaches the limits of visual representation.
Part 7 investigates how painting in the 20th Century is a search of how the brain constructs visual experiences.
This last talk ends with considerations about how abstract painting generated deeper knowledge, how visual illusions are generated with creation of new realities, and how inner feelings, emotions and altered states of consciousness are represented in painting.
In conclusion, I maintain that Art and Science are two sides of the same coin as both consist in imagination constrained by searching and testing reality.