The artist revisited these cold, abstract objects decades later, providing the works with names from Shakespeare, exploiting familiarity to trigger greater viewer emotional connection and introspection.
“The mathematical models would then become specific personalities featured in Shakespeare plays that would be familiar to his audience and invite curiosity...”
Exhibition curator Wendy A. Grossman asks in her catalog essay, 'Squaring the Circle : The Math of Art', if the Surrealists used modern math in pursuit of unreality...
"Is this confluence merely coincidental, or do Surrealism and modern mathematics share something of the same spirit? Or is there something Surreal about mathematics that drew these artists to this realm?"
The full article has some interesting ideas about the collision of art and science, and is worth a read.
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