The fourth dimension

'The concept of hyperspace has intrigued artists, musicians, mystics,theologians, and philosophers, especially near the beginning ofthe twentieth century. According to art historian Linda DalrympleHenderson, Pablo Picasso’s interest in the fourth dimension influencedthe creation of cubism. (The eyes of the women he paintedlook directly at us, even though their noses face to the side, allowingus to view the women in their entirety. Similarly, a hyperbeing lookingdown on us will see us in our entirety: front, back, and sidessimultaneously.) In his famous painting Christus Hypercubus, SalvadorDalí painted Jesus Christ crucified in front of an unraveled fourdimensionalhypercube, or a tesseract. In his painting The Persistenceof Memory, Dalí tried to convey the idea of time as the fourth dimensionwith melted clocks. In Marcel Duchamp’s painting NudeDescending a Staircase (No. 2), we see a nude in time-lapse motion walkingdown the stairs, in another attempt to capture the fourth dimensionof time on a two-dimensional surface.'

From Michio KAKU's Parallel Worlds. A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos (eISBN 0-385-51416-6, ed. Doubleday, pg. 184)

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