On the strange influence on the art

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In the work of many human mysteries. The case of sudden illumination, a titanic work, the influence of other cultures do a variety of creative, endless and unpredictable. On the influence on art and artists of different spheres of mental activity, and conduct of the case I would like to talk in this topic. To start with Article V. Koshkin on the strange synchronicity of Physics and Art

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On the strange synchronicity of physics and art
V. Koshkin

                        Let's talk about the strangeness of love.
                        There is no other I can not imagine the conversation ...
                                   Pushkin, from "Gabrieliad"

I again brought the country seems to be an association: combined space and time, Picasso, and (quite differently) in Roerich's - and the combined space-time in the theory of relativity and the probabilistic sense of reality in quantum physics. Nothing in common insights Picasso - and Einstein, or Joyce, Monet - and Schrödinger, of course, no! Yet!
And yet there is a striking and significant, in my opinion, a coincidence. The latest physics - the theory of relativity, and even more so, quantum mechanics - forced (almost) give up visual images of physical bodies, inexplicably turned out to be simultaneous with similar events in the arts and in scientific and practical psychology. Time, our, the human being, our history, the history of mankind somehow dictated EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN IMAGES of the nineteenth and preceding centuries, the refusal to fix it this way (and only) at the moment. There was a need for new understandings in the film world, with the rejection of visibility, from the "household" visual understandings of classical painting - and classical physics. And classical music, based on the symmetry and harmony. Even the music at this time Schoenberg came with atonic, recitative, with dodekafoniey. Almost simultaneously: the joint space-time in Einstein and the combined image memory in the space-time with Picasso. Almost simultaneously: very different uncertainties and different interpretations are equally important reads of the same (seemingly!) Of the object by different artists and still-relevant interpretation of phenomena in physics and phenomena in the psyche. Freud's psychoanalysis and surrealism of Dali and Kafka. Soaring in the sky over Vitebsk love Chagall, timeless and extradimensional - almost abstract, almost symbolic.
  Symbolism Churlionis, which probably was one of those who opened their creativity abstract, yet figurative - but not copied, and synthesizing art. Existentialism Camus - fabric of life, composed of individual small little fact-parts. Impressionism of Debussy, who stepped down from integrating logic to short musical tunes smears emerging in the general emotional pattern of the play - just as in the paintings of Monet and Seurat with the ideology of separation "common color on clean, discrete colors ... and the quantum physics of Bohr, Schrödinger , Born and Heisenberg, which proclaimed the probabilistic nature of the physical world and the ongoing interpretation of physical states as the superposition (addition) of discrete "pure" states ... theory of relativity and quantum mechanics have shown that the observer, the subject of measuring the physical parameters essentially determine the measurement result. Subjective and objective in determining the mix of physical entities. The same revolution has taken place in the arts.
I am not in the least inclined to mysticism and do not intend to look at these amazing coincidences some otherworldly effect. But some incomprehensibly immense transformation of the human spirit in the creation and understanding of the arts (music, literature, painting) and in the constructions of science (physics, biology, psychology) really are synchronous and they probably are interrelated. I do not pretend to "inclusiveness" and even on the correctness of the following statements. Man forced to communicate with all the high-velocity change of circumstances in their lives. Art reacted to this synoptic abstract art, impressionist color separation, which merge into a single image when viewed from afar or at a fast glance. Physics "communicates" with more and more energy, and technology, which it defines, offering an increasingly fast pace of life and its rate of change. Well, people in the outer space for him psychologically to adapt: to keep pace grasp graphic symbols of objects and phenomena and generalize their very colorful palette. This is - an attempt to understand why the art and science of tectonic its manifestations in sync.
However, such changes in the synchronicity of different manifestations of the spirit of humanity has already passed before in its history. Renaissance SYNCHRONOUS - for three centuries - has manifested itself in philosophy and theology (Luther, Calvin, Giordano Bruno, Erasmus, later Francis Bacon), in painting and literature (Giotto, Dante, later, Petrarch, Rabelais, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Boccaccio) in science (Copernicus, Galileo). The last stage of the European Renaissance - the beginning of modern times. It replaced newest - when over a century, even less, while there have been dramatic transformation, and artistic and scientific mentality. This was the last twentieth century.
Transformation, we were talking about - this is a paradigm shift of consciousness of a tectonic scale. There are no such large-scale changes, which also is no less astonishing synchronicity in completely different activities of communities. Economists are used to predict the law of long waves in the economy, found in the thirties of last century by the eminent Russian scientist N. Kondratyev (he died shortly in Stalin's camps). Kondratieff cycles have a period of about fifty years and are found in all economies. Later, a famous mathematician Maslov showed that the architectural style of churches ( "classicism - the Baroque") in Russia for six centuries underwent periodic changes - with the same fifty-year period. V. Petrov, K. Martindeyl and your partner independently and with different co-authors have shown that the same fifty-year period found in the styles of music, painting and literature in different countries and also simultaneously. You will find links to these quantitative studies in the book. In the second part of the book you will find the analysis of why the style of the manifestations of culture, fashion, for example, as well as political preferences change periodically. Now - just the coincidence of periods of different manifestations of human activity - from economics to music and literature. S. Maslov said that "a spirit" even a little ahead of changes in the economy. My colleagues and managed with the help of statistical analysis to confirm that changes in economic indices, at least not ahead of changes in the cultural sphere. Spiritual change "in the consciousness of society ahead of the economic, material? It seems that this is the case.
First word? - First word!
The nature of the periodic changes can be understood and described. It took another N. Kondratiev (and his followers) in the economy, later I tried to propose a more general mechanism of these oscillations using a phenomenological model taking into account feedbacks in a statistically tied systems. You will find links to these works at the end of the book. But changes in the synchronicity of universal self-awareness and economic life of the human population at the tectonic level - is a manifestation of such deep connections, the nature of which I was not given to recognize.
In the mid-twentieth century, Charles Snow, a prominent physicist, writer and politician, saw the trend: the representatives of humanitarian and natural scientists are no longer understand each other. Here (from memory) quote from Snow: "the humanities are accused of physicists in ignorance, but they do not even know what a" second law of thermodynamics. "(This physical law is important for understanding the general trends of development). But does" physics "are able to project ideas Jules Verne, Camus, Kafka, Dali, Magritte, Strugackih or Stanislaw Lem in the understanding of Nature? "However, Einstein was well aware of Dostoevsky's work and thought that this writer has influenced his art physics. (You can read about it in a beautiful book, BG . Kuznetsov, Einstein and Dostoevsky "). And yet: in the intellectual life of mankind during the past century and a half developed" two cultures, two different cultures - the culture of scientists and the culture of the humanities - read independent of each other. Even the "inside" the natural Science has no understanding. among psychologists and chemists, for example, though it has long had a chemical Pharmacopoeia for neuro-and psycho-pathologies. between physicists, chemists and biologists, although there has long been the successful allied sciences (biophysics, physical chemistry, molecular biology). Between mathematicians and linguists, although it is mathematical linguistics and statistical study of literature. In ancient Greece (in ancient Rome in part), science and art were seen as a whole. Then there was differentiation of knowledge, and through many centuries - again, an integrated knowledge and integrated work. Impersonate this Revival of the spirit of ancient Greece - Leonardo da Vinci, who again combined in one person every conceivable manifestation of human intelligence. "Leonardo - a symbol of greatness for all time. The eighteenth, nineteenth and three-quarters of the twentieth century was again brought to the differentiation of narrow professional, to rule the specifics of of the aspirations of not only themselves intellectuals (mostly poor people), but because of "social order" money masters of life who understand that intelligence - a reliable scope of capital investment. Businessmen rarely make mistakes. And their choices in the twentieth century was not a mistake. I I think - I am convinced that the twenty-first century will be one integrative knowledge and the triumph of interdisciplinary sciences. In them will be "investing." telecommunications, became a sign of the end of the twentieth century, has radically altered the possibilities of universal integration and mutual influence. I have recently published with colleagues book "Introduction to Natural (Koshkin Sinelnik, Shkorbatov, 2006), which attempted to identify the need and possibilities of this approach to education that provides a common understanding of science in general, including the human sciences - in a single context. Here and now I I only want to emphasize the unity of nature in all its manifestations and the probabilistic nature of the implementation of its laws - and in physics and in art.