Art Cured is a digital compilation of and for artists for the purpose of establishing creative networks, showcasing international work, and breaking down the technical processes behind art.
Behind Art Cured is a scientist with an affinity for creative expression where duality is at the core. Having lived in London, a leading city for art, theatre and fashion, I experienced art through upscale windows in Mayfair just as much as she became a spectator of street artists in Shoreditch working their magic in real time.
Through the noise of spray cans, and the blinding reflections of polished frames, I ultimately felt excluded as a scientist, taking on art as an outsider. At this point of exclusion, she decides to look inwards and ask herself important questions about the possibility of principles of art co-existing with those of science.
Rationality is attributed to science more often than art, as art is perceived as a non-rational phenomenon, an explosion of the soul on media made to make sense - or not.
“It would, of course, be absurd, to claim that art as commonly understood is always rational…” …”the term ‘rational use’ is used in a sense of a service which is not temporary but functional and organic, and which satisfies an eternal and implanted law.” Lucy Silke (1900).
According to the statement by Silke (1900), surely art would be ascribed to rationality if it is considered to satisfy laws similar to how science does. This is quite a modern take — viewing art as one thing and science as the other as we increasingly compartmentalise our society. If you rewind back to the 1400's or the 1500’s, the intersection between engineering, science, art, architecture, and medicine was the basis of the Renaissance era. It was when artists saw the overlap of disciplines as a driving force that led to the rapid expansion of knowledge coming up with novel methods of thinking and expressing.
Art Cured seeks to increase the value of inter-disciplinary thinking, breaking down art in ways that a scientific mind would, but maintaining the authenticity of the artist’s work through communications and aims for representation that immaculately reflects the essence of the artist.
