Art, Meet Chemistry; Chemistry, Meet Art: Case Studies, Current Literature, and Instrumental Methods Combined To Create a Hands-On Experience for Nonmajors and Instrumental Analysis Students.

The article focuses on linking art and chemistry for nonmajors and instrumental analysis students through the combination of literature and instrumental methods with focus in X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectroscopy. It relates that undergraduate curriculum is slow in adopting XRF experiments despite the advances in its technique. It also presents the importance of XRF and its mapping ability to artwork as highlighted in a study on the analysis of an artwork by Vincent van Gogh.