My inspiration for my art work came firstly by a quote from Einstein "The greatest scientists are artists as well. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited whereas imagination embraces the entire world." I understood this as a statement claiming that scientists would not achieve much if they did not have imagination and creativity to help them come up with their new hypothesis and ideas. The part saying that knowledge is limited made me imagine a wall separating the world from the universe which represents the unknown, mysteries and endless possibilities for new discoveries and knowledge.
To demonstrate such a concept I started by painting an old looking map of the world which represents the beginning of the world, its bare knowledge and understanding of its own space and meaning. Science was a new idea, still greatly based on religion and thus, not evolving as fast as in the next centuries.
The grey wall with the door represents the scientific revolutions and how it enlightened the world to new ideas and concepts to which humans were unaware of. The revolutions made the world advance and gain perspective while detaching itself from religion.
The multicoloured spectrum characterized the imagination spoken of in the quote. It starts from the old world, through the door and into the universe to make one understand that it is that which made the world grow and develop new technologies and it will still be the answer for the future as scientists will now be able to explore the universe.
That was merely the historical and abstract meaning to the painting. I also added some of the scientific concepts that we have studied during the semester.
The map of the world in the bottom left is Newton's ideas of space and time as he states that it is flat, homogenous and the same everywhere. So I represented the world as flat which at first was common sense to believe so.
The revolutions are described in the wall separating the world from the universe; the formulas and equations are all taken from the PowerPoints or concepts which we have learned about.
The spectrum can also be seen as a line spectrum because it is light which we do not know if it is wave or particles and what exactly produces them. Also in that spectrum there is the wave-particle duality as the edges of the spectrum resemble waves and are followed by particles
I suppose that would describe well what I attempted to do, however my focus was more on the evolution of science and the abstract of it rather than direct and precise notions.