SALVADOR DALI & SCIENCE
ARE THEY SIMILAR? PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY (1931)
The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory, (1954)
GALATEA OF THE SPHERES, 1952 • The Galatea of the Spheres is a marvelous portrait of Dali's wife Gala. In 1934 Dali and Gala were married in a civil ceremony in Paris and in 1958 One of the most representative works from the nuclear mysticism period. It is the outcome of a Dali impassioned by science and for the theories of the disintegration of the atom. Gala's face is made up from a discontinuous, fragmented setting, densely populated by spheres, which on the axis of the canvas takes on a prodigious three-dimensional https://www.dalipaintings.com/gal atea-of-the-spheres.jsp#prettyPho
EQUESTRIAN MOLECULAR FIGURE (1952) •
….I have managed to imagine visually the main elements that make up modern physics, revealing their shapes and particular structural features with a precision unprecedented in my realistic work. Thus it was that, one after another - and in the same way as Fra Luca Pacioli and Leonardo did in their transcendent Pythagorism, with the solid or hollow bodies derived from the five Platonic solids - Dalí, for the first time in the world, has just drawn an electron, a proton, a meson, a pi meson, and even the soft structure par excellence (of that ultra-new 'cosmic tail' that I often speak of in a nearly obsessive way), long before professor Fermi had come to use it in the strictest scientific terminology". Mysticism and science thus appeared
THE MAXIMUM SPEED OF RAPHAEL'S MADONNA(1954) • "What distinguishes our age from the renaissance is that now for the first time we realize that matter, instead of being something continuous, is discontinuous...[I]f one wanted to give an accurate representation of a table, instead of being compact, the table should resemble something like a swarm of flies."-Salvador Dali https://prezi.com/hrkq-r-bpoad/salvador-dalis-the-maximum-speed-of -raphaels-madonna-1954/ Presentation by Binh Chung
ATOMIC THEORY • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa zQRcSCRaY https://phet.colorado.edu/el/simulation/legacy/hydrogen-atom
YOUR TURN NOW �Choose one of the following tasks and work as groups �Be like Dali ---make a painting inspired by atomic theory like Dali’s paintings �Imagine that you are at 440 BCE and make a dialog between Democritus and Aristoteles
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