#nuclear age

[retro-scifi-and-fantasy-art]

Cover artist: Boris Vallejo - Z For Zachariah, 1977

[bronzeageecho]

eagle warrior pot | 1990 CE | A. & V. Lucario, Pueblo

in the detroit institute of arts collection

[loneberry]

“At the tail end of the Sixties, he [Alexander Grothendieck] travelled for two months to Romania, Algeria and Vietnam to give a series of seminars. One of the colleges at which he taught in Vietnam was later bombed by American troops; two professors and dozens of students died. When he returned to France, he was a changed man. Influenced by the clamour of the May ’68 protests all around him, he called on more than a hundred students during a masterclass at the University of Paris in Orsay to renounce “the vile and dangerous practice of mathematics” in light of the hazards humanity was facing. It was not politicians who would destroy the planet, he told them, but scientists like them who were “marching like sleepwalkers towards the apocalypse”. From that day forward, he refused to participate in any maths conference that would not allow him to devote equal time to ecology and pacifism. During his talks, he gave away apples and figs grown in his garden and warned about the destructive power of science: “The atoms that tore Hiroshima and Nagasaki apart were split not by the greasy fingers of a general, but by a group of physicists armed with a fistful of equations.” Grothendieck could not stop fretting over the possible effects that his own ideas could have on the world. What new horrors would spring forth from the total comprehension that he sought? What would mankind do if it could reach the heart of the heart?” —Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

[un-ionizetheradlab]

“Can you hear the music, Robert?”

[richo1915]

With only 2 ever used in War, there have been 2053 detonations from 1945 to 1998. This does not include accidents like 3 Mile Island, Chernobyl, the Kursk or Fukushima.

Welcome to the Anthropocene Age. Welcome to the Age of Cancer.

[theditchlillies]

Salvador Dalí // The Persistence of Memory // 1931

The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory// 1952-1954

" When asked about the limp watches, the artist compared their softness to overripe cheese saying that they show “the camembert of time”. The idea of rot and decay is most evident in the gold watch on the left, which is swarmed by ants. Ants, a common motif in Dalí’s art are usually linked to decay and death. He set the scene in a desolate landscape that was likely inspired by the landscape of his homeland, the Catalan coast. The influence of the Catalan landscape also appears in another element of the painting: the artist inserts himself into the scene in the form of a strange fleshy creature in the center of the painting. According to Dalí, the self-portrait was based on a rock formation at Cap de Creus in northeast Catalonia. Some scholars have also drawn a parallel between the self-portrait and a section of Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights (1510-1515) – on the right side of the left panel Bosch depicts rocks, bushes, and small animals that resemble Dalí’s profile with the prominent nose and long eyelashes. Similar versions of this self-portrait appear in other paintings by Dalí like the Great Masturbator (1929).

 "As the title suggests, the painting shows the disintegration of the world depicted in the original painting, reflecting a world changed by the nuclear age. The painting showed Dalí’s growing interest in quantum physics: he added rectangular blocks that represent “the atomic power source” and missile-like objects that reference the atomic bomb. In the late stages of his career, Dalí also produced numerous sculptures of melting watches including The Persistence of Memory (ca. 1980), Profile of Time (1977-1984), Nobility of Time (1977-1984) and Dance of Time (1979-1984). "

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Salvador Dali lived in the XX cent., a remarkable figure of Spanish-Catalan Surrealism. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best

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