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Posts Tagged: Art & Science
Winston’s Black Dog and Vincent’s Left Ear – Creativity & Mental Illness
Yes, you can believe it now: madness is Read More »
Consciousness & Free Will – They Are Just Illusions
Just when we think we know why we are superior to monkeys – the larger size of our prefrontal cortex: that ‘thinking’ or executive brain – now neuro-biologists are telling us we don’t really Read More »
Le Cabanon le Corbusier – Relevant Today?
Entrance hall, le Cabanon in le Bon Marché
In 1949, le Corbusier, while vacationing in the south of France, sketched Read More »
Who’s the Real Artist – Leonardo or Michelangelo?
Who is the greater novelist, Tolstoy or Dostoevsky? The writer Kevin Hartnett, writing in The Millions admitted to his preference for “Tolstoy’s ability to see the angles of everyday life to Dostoevsky’s taste for the manic edges of experience. Read More »
Richard Feynman 1918-1988 – The Value of Art
On this day, February 15, Richard Feynman died in Los Angeles, in 1988. He was of course the Nobel physicist (1965) who was well known for his idiosyncrasies. One of them was that he played the Bongo drum (professionally), and furthermore, from repairing radios to picking locks… to painting and poetry he did it all. So on this day, I will print a poem from one of his lectures, The Value of Science: Read More »
The Religious Artist as Skeptic – And the Scientific Method
There are two types of believers in art, or religion, or even science: the true believer, who is constantly testing his beliefs by Read More »
Too Much Science Is Bad For Art? Gabriel Orozco Thinks So
Gabriel Orozco’s installation in the de la Cruz collection, Miami, Florida
Although he keeps up on the latest science, the Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco is careful to keep a distance. Read More »
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. Read More »
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: Read More »