Light In Art And Physics

This is a knotty and complex subject but I will try to make it simple and unadorned. Light, the visible form of electromagnetic radiation, is produced by energy changes within the atoms of the sun or in the mediums of the universe. It allows the world to become observable with the help of our eyes. Light, of course, plays a fundamental role in art. Its complete absence in a painting results in aesthetic blackout. The Impressionist artists made the exploration of color and light a central feature of their painterly investigations and expression. For physicists light is vibration in the hyperspace of the fifth dimension. The fifth dimension is an added feature to the four dimensions of space and time.