Painting: where art meets science
The Naked Scientists Podcast
Dr Chris Smith
4.6 • 958 Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All engine running. |
| 0:03.3 | Absolutely genius. |
| 0:04.1 | Get this. |
| 0:04.8 | Welcome. |
| 0:05.9 | This is the show where we bring you science. |
| 0:07.7 | What that essentially means is... |
| 0:09.2 | Discovery is... |
| 0:09.9 | Advances. |
| 0:10.3 | Research. |
| 0:11.5 | Technology. |
| 0:12.4 | Unbelievable. |
| 0:13.4 | Without further ado, this is The Naked Scientists. |
| 0:17.7 | Hello, welcome to the Naked Scientist podcast, the program that brings you the biggest breakthroughs and talks to the major movers and shakers in the worlds of science, technology and medicine. |
| 0:27.2 | I'm Chris Smith, and today, the science of paint and where the chemistry stops and art takes over. |
| 0:43.9 | Thank you. art takes over. Us humans have been painting for, according to one source of evidence at least, |
| 0:48.5 | 164,000 years. |
| 0:50.9 | From Neanderthal smearing pigments on rocks to intricate masterpieces like the Mona Lisa, |
| 0:56.3 | most of our focus, though, when we survey a piece of art is on the brushstrokes, the composition |
| 1:00.8 | and what's being depicted. Often we completely overlook the science that underpins the work, |
| 1:06.7 | and that's what we're going to consider today, how art and science go hand in hand. |
| 1:11.9 | But how do professional artists approach their work? |
| 1:15.2 | Well, to sketch out a picture of what's involved, here's Nick Archer, |
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