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Oct.
8 , 2004
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"America V, The Sciences" - Acrylic
on wood panel - 110x102 |
Nov.
28 , 2004
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The
idea
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Oct. 8
Now that I am done with America
III - Medusa, and America
IV - The Arts, I can start working on the next piece of
the same series:
America
V - The Sciences
It shall represent american science.
Here is my
first sketch of the idea.
The flag is torn on top and Liberty appears with her torch that turns
into the mushroom of a nuclear explosion.
The scientists shall be:
Richard
Feynman,
Linus Pauling, James Watson,
Enrico Fermi.
Einstein was not in America when he produced his grand work, so
he should be entering from under. Two portraits of him might be justified,
as the young man of Relativity (bottom) and as the old wise, and basically
unproductive, resident of Princeton, who somehow contributed to and campaigned
against nuclear weapons, at the top in the shadow of the curved banner.
I would also show Edward Teller, the fanatic of anticommunism and
promoter (creator) of the H bomb.
Watson should be swirled in the double spiral of DNA.
In the field of medicine I thought of C. Djerassi, inventor of
the oral contraceptive pill - but there might be somebody more important
- to be researched.
We have 4immigrants and 3 US born. The immigrants are traceable outside
the flag. The top of the flag is curved like a protective umbrella.
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Photo
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I
look in internet to find photos of my science heroes. I also find that
Jonas Salk, (polio vaccine) is more significant than Djerassi.
Finally I thought of John von Neumann as a very important figure
in creating computer science (as distinct from technology), and decided
that Goedel should be inserted even though he produced his great
work before moving to Princeton (similar to Einstein story). To complete
the high energy physics picture Murray Gell-Mann should be there.
In
total I have 10 great scientists, of which 5 are immigrants and 6 are
jewish. Also that is USA!
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Table
of sciencse and scientists
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Oct.
12
I
chose 2 photos for Gell-Mann and Feynman which give a humourus
description of their life-long complex relationship.
There
was a popular quiz: "Who is the brightest? Murray or Richard?
Feynman is shown here during his amazingly simple demonstration, in front
of a Senate investigation committee,
of the causes of the explosion of the space shuttle 'Challenger'.
A british
flag should be close to Watson since he discovered the structure of the
DNA molecule in Cambridge with two British co-discoverers, Francis Crick
and Tom Wilkins.
Click
the image to enlarge
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In the
Corel Draw model at left I tried to determine the various proportions.
I'd like to have the portraits as large as possible. In this case the
head wold be about 20cm high and 15 broad. That might even be too much.
Notice
that Einstein and Goedel are represented twice : once
as young men before immigrating to the USA (lower right) and then as
older men, now citizen, under the protection of Princeton (upper right).
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Execution
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Oct. 14
I started tracing on the wood panel (110x102) and placing photos of
the scientists to determine position and size.
From this I observe that the photos are a bit too large.
Images left and right can be enlarged.
Oct. 15
I made a new computer model with proportionally smaller photos. (Click
to enlarge)
Since I was not satisfied with Salk and Watson photos, I looked for
better ones. Shown below center (Salk) and right (Watson, at the age
of his DNA structure discovery - what a young boy! - Amazing!)
Also changed
the nuclear mushroom.
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Jonas
Salk
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James Watson
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Oct. 15
Placed the smaller photos on the panel.
I think it
is ready for painting.
Oct 20
Status at right
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Octr. 22
Status at left.
I do not like the mushroom of the nuclear explosion. The proportions are
not good. Should work on it.
Nov.2
Status at right. I think it is final.
Enlarged
views and details
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