'Picasso was particularly struck by Poincaré's advice on how to view the fourth dimension, which artists considered another spatial dimension. If you could transport yourself into it, you would see every perspective of a scene at once. But how to project these perspectives on to canvas?' - Arthur I. Miller
Picasso's Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, 1910, The Art Institute of Chicago
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“Since all the tools for my untying
In four-dimensioned space are lying,
Where playful fancy intersperses
Whole avenues of universes..
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^Theoretical physicist James Clerk Maxwell is best known for his work in formulating the equations of electromagnetism. He was also a prize-winning poet, and in his last poem Paradoxical Ode, Maxwell muses on connections between science, religion and nature, touching upon higher-dimensions along the way. [Wikipedia: Fourth Dimension in Literature]
"Fie, fie, how franticly I square my talk!"
4D painting by Tony Robbin (2007-8, 56" x 70", Coll: the artist)
"Interior of the Fourth Dimension" by Max Weber (1913)
^ "In plastic art, I believe, there is a fourth dimension which may be described as the conciousness of a great and overwhelming sense of space-magnitude in all directions at one time, and is brought into existence through the three known measurements." - Max Weber (The Fourth Dimension from a Plastic Point of View)
Dali's Corpus Hypercubus