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Science vs Art - Why Human Nature Abhors A Vacuum

The age-old contrast between science and art and the values they tend to promote is explored in this video through a detailed look at the image in the thumbnail - Joseph Wright of Derby’s 1768 painting “An Experiment on a Bird in the Air-Pump”. In a very practical way, this video demonstrates how painting can encapsulate and represent complex ideas about the relationship between science and the humanities. Wright’s painting is one of the most significant visual portrayals in art history of how science and art relate to each other. The content of Wright’s painting portrays science and its experimental method. The genre of Wright’s painting, however, is the “vanitas” - a traditional form of painting designed to be a memento mori, a reminder of death and human mortality. On the one hand, the content of the image depicts the equipment used one hundred years earlier by the Enlightenment scientist Robert Boyle to explore the nature of air and whether a vacuum could be created. On the other hand, the painting is filled with visual cues of various religious and cultural references that suggest human nature, if not nature itself, abhors a vacuum of meaning and is in constant need of finding and creating significance in our lives. This painting makes a guest appearance in the Bond film “Skyfall” where it can be seen over the shoulder of Q as he chats with Bond in the National Art Gallery in London. Aengus Dewar’s Blog about the Derby painting: @https://www.aengusart.co.uk/blog/jose... #scienceandart #humannature #arthistory #mementomori #vanitas #paintingart