reflection on the approach of the mathematician and philosopher Hilary Putnam, who presented at a conference in 2000 a historical and a critique of positivist scientific methods, is compared to the artistic evolution, to demonstrate the differences between art from vanguards and positivist scientific proposals, eventually with the approaches of Putnam, the proposal contemporary crash facts-values dichotomy, which allows overlapping forms of knowledge construction and conceptual approach between art and science.