Art and science, in four keys

Abstract

This paper aims to facilitate a dialogue between art and science by dismembering mental operations in art, in order to aggregate historical periods, movements and artists into four major keys that point to different ways to produce visual knowledge based on materiality - ontological root of the art itself. Thus, representation, abstraction, concrete form and appropriations potentially become keys where future research and dialogues can unfold from an approximation, in a more precise and coherent way, thus expanding the potential for interdisciplinary collaboration and integrating, also, the understanding of ordinary visuality, that is, of how, particularly, each subject relates to plastic elements and images.