Week Nine
In the final lessons of the quarter, we learned about the connections between Space and Art. I was most interested in the film industry’s take on space. Space is still mostly a vast area of unknown darkness. Before we managed to put a man on the moon or even have a shuttle orbiting earth, artists were already imagining what was in this great area of darkness (Malina). After space was further explored, space exploded and became a hot topic in film and in society as well. Depiction of our Solar System Since the time of Copernicus and even before then, scientists and artists have been dreaming of what lies outside the comfort of Earth. Earth appeared to people to be just “a lonely speck in the lonely great enveloping cosmic darkness” (Sagan). What lies outside of earth was only something imagined by artists until we could successfully place a man on the moon. Space was always a popular topic among various scholars, Copernicus brought forth the idea of the solar system and ...
