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Art Vs Old Art

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Art is a good way for people to relax and admire the power of human creativity, a lot of pieces of art will make you agape at the beauty of it. However, old art pieces created centuries ago are starting to fall apart. Scientific studies are being conducted on each piece of art trying to figure out how exactly the artist created these masterpieces, and to possibly find a way to stop them from withering away, and to keep them around for many more centuries to come and so many more generations of people can see. Science has some part in everything, even art. There are many different ways science is involved in art, they can conduct a study on what people like in art to try make a new masterpiece, or why people are so infatuated with the older pieces. However, this is not the main studies on art. Old art is falling apart and we need to find a way to fix it. A group of scientists from Italy have started a program called MOLAB in which they go to art galleries across the world and study art pieces. They have looked at countless pieces across the world, and have figured out the many different colors in some art pieces which can range to about 600 different colors; they also find out how many layers of paint are on one painting or on one specific spot. Jason Palmer, a scientist working for MOLAB was working on a newer painting called Victory Boogie Woogie by Piet Mondrian said “ this painting is definitely one of the newest pieces of work i've ever looked at, it is very bright

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