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The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes = G. CARLIN...Stain glass, engraved glass, frosted glass
–give me plain glass = JOHN FOWLES...Music is the mathematics of the gods = PYTHAGORAS...Nothing is more fluid than language = R. L. SWIHART
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Monday, August 5, 2013

The Geometry of Peri Schwartz

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In today's Huffington Post, there is an interview with Peri Schwartz.
Upon reading the HuffPo interview, Chancellor Hobbes of the LCSoL told me
Ms. Schwartz had exhibited her art on the campus "and was given a rousing reception."


Studio XXX 2010
The background is a soft Euclidean tapestry while the foreground
gives a quiet hint of Riemannian geometry.


-Ronny Magritte
Professor of Modern Art
Lewis Carroll School of Logic

"The apple doesn't fall far from the tree," said Chancellor Hobbes,
"Magreetings to all fathers & sons from Rene & Ronny. The father
  painted an apple and the son quotes Bernhard Riemann."

"The man who gave us spherical geometry," I said,
"And I'll quote what Lewis Carroll would have said
  if he saw Peri Schwartz's painting: Beauty does not
  defy description, it expands the vocabulary.
"

"And it explains why Peri was such a big hit on our campus.
  Speaking of 'expanding the vocabulary,'
  here is another painting from Peri and another quote
  from a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art."



Peri Schwartz’s Studio Self-Portrait
is a strong painting in a venerable tradition,
and it blends loosely brushed realism with
a subtle dose of geometric abstraction
to structure a work rich in form and content.

-Nan Rosenthal

"It's all between the grids, Dr. Hobbes.
"Or what the other Rene–Descartes–called
  The x-axis and the y-axis."

"How math-y of you, Paul."
"Goodnight, Dr. Hobbes."


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Footnotes
The Descartes reference gave me a a heavy dose of nostalgia.

Students at the Lewis Carroll School were in constant debate
as to the genesis of the following words:

ART IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL FORM OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS

Pythagoras said the same thing about MUSIC
and Lewis Carroll said the same thing about IMAGINATION.

The most Zen amongst us claimed all three statements were equal.
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1 comment:

  1. A friend of mine, who prefers what we can call
    "20th Century Anonymity," sent me the following comment:

    In the Huffington Post link, there is strong evidence that Peri Schwartz is a master of luminosity.
    Her surfaces are reflective of light
    from within and out.

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