EF Solare Italia, as the first photovoltaic operator in the country, is attentive to the spread of culture and is committed in trainning throughout the school year.
LIGHT AND COLOURS: THE SUN AND THE ART
Before we learned to transform the Sun into a source of electricity through photovoltaics, our star always provided us with heat and light. It is therefore natural that since the dawn of time the Sun has been represented in the visual arts and has influenced architecture.
The stylized figure of the Sun is found in engravings and rock paintings of prehistoric and protohistoric times, including the petroglyphs of Val Camonica. Many very ancient symbols, often used as decorative motifs, have been traced back to a symbolic representation of the Sun, just like in the Greek times the triscele (a symbolic figure consisting of three legs bent in the same direction arranged on a horizontal plane, which has become a symbol of Sicily).
In ancient times the Sun, considered a deity in almost all polytheistic religions, was often represented personified, with human features. One of the seven wonders of the ancient world, the colossus of Rhodes, was a statue of over thirty meters high representing the God Helios, located at the entrance to the port of the Greek island. The Sun was sometimes imagined driving a chariot through the sky, just like the famous bronze sculpture of Trundholm’s solar chariot, found in Denmark at the beginning of the 20th century and dating back to 1500 BC.
Modern and contemporary painting preferred to focus, instead, on the study of light and on the natural representation of the Sun, in all its phases of the day: sunrise, noon, and sunset. The romantic painters of the nineteenth century, such as the masters William Turner and Caspar David Friedrich (famous for the work “Wayfarer on the Sea of Fog” which became the manifesto of the entire Romantic movement), had among their favourite subjects sunrise and sunset. Also in other movements we find passionate of sunlight: “Impression, soleil levant“ is the painting represented by Monet, which gave its name to the Impressionist movement, Van Gogh, exponent of post-impressionism in whose works, following a trip to Provence, we find the disruptive light of the zenith, expressionists such as Munch with “The Sun, 1909“, contemporary painters like Mirò with “The Red Sun“.
EF Solare Italia, as the first photovoltaic operator in the country, is attentive to the spread of culture and is committed in trainning throughout the school year. Recently, the company has chosen a new higher education project, l’Accademia del Sole, to promote it.