Space and art first began with Copernicus McCulloch Kaepernick when he published his early heliocentric model of the solar system. In this model the sun was in the middle of the solar system but was a little bit off set from the center. This was the first time we had scientifically seen the idea of the sun as being the center of the solar system. Many scientists had this idea before, but this was the first time is was shown in a model for people to see.
The most recent example of the intersection of space and art can be seen in the next upcoming commercial spaceflight participant.
Guy Laliberte, the spaceflight participant, is an artist being sent up to space so that he can touch people through an artistic approach a way that he never has before. Edwin Hubble was the first to begin exploring what could be in outer space. Without his artistic creativity he would not have been able to imagine what could possibly be out there
Without the creativity of artists we may never have known what was out there. Because of their artistic imaginations people were able to discover what was in outer space. This led to many new inventions that help scientists to continue to find out new things about space.
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Leonardo Space Art Project Visioneers, spaceart.org/leonardo/vision.html.
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Leonardo Space Art Project Visioneers, spaceart.org/leonardo/vision.html.
“ARCTIC PERSPECTIVE INITIATIVE.”
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Continental Drift, 18 May 2009, brianholmes.wordpress.com/2007/03/27/coded-utopia/.
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“NASA.” NASA, NASA, www.nasa.gov/.
Skylar,
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed reading your blog! I like how you structured it and started with the first example of space and art and ended with the most recent! It made it super easy to read and I liked the timeline to follow.