A free showing of science and art should likely get people through the doors of the Oriental Pearl news center in Shanghai. As a part of Shanghai Science Week, the Science and Art exhibition was unveiled on May 18.
When you walk into the exhibition hall, you are greeted by a portrait of Leonardo Da Vinci. Named the master of Renaissance painting, Da Vinci was also an ingenious scientist as well. Who else better embodies the theme for the Science and Art Exhibition. A man before his time, his manuscripts revealed an "Ideal Town" with a complete public health system, the flying machine which is in line with modern physics, and a bicycle sketch drafted before the invention of bicycles by the French 300 years ago.
A set of Jazz drums might have you raise an eyebrow because instead of using typical drumsticks, sensors are used to create sound. By arbitrarily moving your hands over the drums authentic sounding beats come to life.
Look at this, the same picture but with a different facial expression when the page turns down. An illusion of gold fish in front of you seems to be within your reach but you cannot touch it. So many mysterious art works are shown in this exhibition. Want to know the theory of them? Go and find the reason by visiting it yourself.
(CCTV.com May 21, 2004)
