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In the eye of beholder

The Sun has played a highly symbolic role in visual presentations throughout history. It overcomes the darkness and illuminates the whole world. It has often been associated and identified with the deity who sees everything that happens on Earth, therefore considered to be the eye of the world or God's eye. The sun is symbolically linked to Christ, the god Ra, Apollo or Helium but also with the ultimate symbol of life (eternal life). Fascination with the Sun and sunlight through art can be perceived by exploring various artistic media and expressions. Throughout art history this has resulted in the emergence of certain stylistic art directions (such as impressionism and expressionism). The Sun has been recognized as life, such as such as cells are in science, as it is the most important source of energy for life on Earth and it is a main driver of Earth's climate system. Modern solar telescopes revealed that the whole Sun's surface consists out of solar granules, a small (about 1000 km across) cellular features that last only for 10 to 20 minutes. The whole Sun is covered by about 4 million granules except in the areas covered by sunspots that prevent the development of convection currents. The cell is structural, functional and biological unit of all organisms as the smallest unit of life that can replicate independently, which is why cells are often called the "building blocks of life". In the past 10 years, significant efforts have been made towards developing more realistic in vitro cell culture models which can be “near to in vivo” conditions. Images of 3D cell cultures under the microscope show similarity with the structure of the Sun. The techniques and methods used to present the Sun or the cells have included the telescope, the microscope and artist's brush strokes. Visual reproductions by Vincent van Gogh, Turner, Rabuzin, Seder, Kožarić, and Monet as well as those from Egyptian, Greek and Christian mythology, are presented here together witht images of the Sun, Sun’s granules and cells growth in 3D format

Modern art; in vitro biology; Sun; astrophysics

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