On a glorious October day, there is nothing
Month: November 2011
Monet’s Eyesight – And Our Blind Faith?
In his late seventies, and nearly blind with severe cataracts, was Monet ‘experimenting’, painting ‘modernist abstractions’? Many have long claimed just that from his late broad brushstrokes, lack of detail and highlights, and dark, muddy colors. Others see a darkened vision of advancing age, which is true; except it was quite real, not entirely psychological.
When Einstein Met le Corbusier – What Went Wrong?
What is it about physics that so intimidates? Or is it just Einstein?
Le Corbusier recalled his visit to Princeton in 1946 to meet the Nobel laureate: