@article{2017,title={THE FACTUAL REALITY AND VISUAL PRACTICES IN ART AND SCIENCE},abstractNode={Aesthetic discoveries found in the reality of nature have not only caught the attention of artists. Since Ancient Greece, the artist has primarily approached objects in nature as a science that should be researched; analysing nature and human anatomy based on a comparison of art work. While developments in science have made it possible for the artist to see objects on Earth from a different perspective, over time, the artist’s admiration for scientific developments, especially with Renaissance, has reached its peak. Mathematical and analytical principals held under an objective reality in this period have been the artists’ main point of reference. Apart from art’s interest in scientific developments; scientists have also shown interest in aesthetic values, and while dealing with objective reality, they have not concealed their admiration for the aesthetic data they have come across. The mathematical ratio in the reality of nature has been a criterion in the formation of the beautiful and aesthetic object. Thus, apart from the artist who is after the beauty and harmony in nature, the scientist has also pursued aesthetic ratios and tried to grasp laws of nature from a different perspective, in every step in the development of science. As of the Ancient Greeks, scientific research has awoken artists’ interests. This interest in objective reality started with the Greeks, and with Renaissance, once again became the focal point of the artist. The successive advancement of scientific developments effects artists who have come after Renaissance too. Renaissance artists concerned with drawing correct forms find themselves in an understanding of beauty that is founded by geometric relations and a mathematical perception. The search for reality in Renaissance has spread to other artists as a form of necessity. The discovery of perspective has not only been the focus of artists seeking objectivity but also landscape artists. By shaping the reality of nature with the rules of perspective based on observing nature, landscape artists have perceived art as a field of research towards the laws of nature. Cubism’s research based on scientific, mathematical and technological foundations have steered the methodology of art during its advancement process. In the historical course of art, we have seen that it has been concerned with science as a factual reality. As every development in science impacts society, it has also impacted the artist. In this sense, many artists have acted in parallel to scientific developments and it has been an inevitable process in which science that has transformed societies has also transformed art.},author={Yıldız ERSAĞDIÇ},year={2017},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science}}