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This essay aims to study the ways in which artists, including myself, have embodied and expressed our broad relationship with gravity and to understand the influence of gravity on the development of art. To this end, I examine five specific artworks.
We shall refer briefly to the History of Gravity, mentioning only a few landmarks or great personalities which shaped these fundamental physical and epistemological notions. Keywords: Kinematics of Bodies, Dynamics of Bodies, Space, Time, Mass, Gravitational Force. 1.
27 lis 2020 · Looking primarily at painting and sculpture from the Upper Paleolithic through the modern period, this essay, examining art history as physics history, highlights the historical development of fundamental themes in physics beautifully reflected in the history of Western art.
This collection examines the ways artists from antiquity to the present day use gravity and/or levitation symbolically, metaphorically, and expressively. The 26 essays examine these opposing forces through analysis of such dualities as ascent and descent, weight and weightlessness, hope and despair, or life and death, and draw distinct lines ...
Matters of Weight: Force, Gravity, and Aesthetics in the Early Modern Period. To speak of weight is to acknowledge artistic agency and ambition, the deliberate calibration of materials and support that involves risk, at times to the point of collapse.
Cézanne’s Gravity attends to both the physicality of the artist’s works and the weight they bear on the history of art. This distinctive study not only invites its readers to view Cézanne’s paintings with fresh eyes but also offers a new methodology for art historical inquiry outside linear narratives, one truly fitting for our time.
19 maj 2023 · In a newly published study, Morteza Gharib, Professor of Aeronautics at Caltech, and two of his colleagues argue that Leonardo accurately estimated the gravitational constant two centuries before Newton without the aid of advanced mathematics (Leonardo 56/1, 2023, 21-27).
