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MATHÉMATICS & ARTS |
Exhibit & Lecture |
Initialy
presented at the Institut Henri Poincaré,
Paris. France. |
January
22 - June 30, 2005 |
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- TERMES Dick
- artist.
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- Dick Termes has been painting spherical paintings since 1968 when he received his Masters Degree in Art from the University of Wyoming. He continued his pursuit with his thesis on the Termesphere at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles where he received his Masters in Fine Arts." and lived most of his life in
the Black Hills of South Dakota, USA. He has shown his spherical rotating paintings through out the world. His work has been recognized from San Francisco to Paris, France, from New York to Japan. Each sphere is a revolving three-dimensional space/time exploration painting of an entirely closed universe.
- www.termespheres.com
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What you are seeing when you look at a Termesphere painting is an optical illusion, an inside-out view of the total physical world around you on the outside surface of a hanging and rotating sphere. If you were on the inside of this sphere, this painted image around you would seem normal, but it is read from the outside. From any point when you look at the spherical paintings, the image reads correctly. Termespheres capture the up, down and all around visual world from one revolving point in space. Most of the time these spheres are painted on the outside so it took Termes inventing or discovering a six point perspective system to keep all of this environment around you organized. |
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Paris Opera, 1992
Painted during stay in Paris,1992. The PARIS OPERA is
considered one of the most famous buildings in the world. I spent six days sketching this truly awe-inspiring building from the grand stairways. |
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Sainte Chapelle, 1993
I projected myself above the floor some forty feet
to be looking straight at the wonderful stained glass windows and away from the floor so one could see the incredible designs missed when standing beside hundreds of other people. |
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To Build a Hole. 2003
24" Within this six point perspective environment a person is painting a sphere which becomes a hole. Owned by Bruce Dean at the Discovery Museum in Action, Mass.
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Tetra home. 1991
Tetrahome is a 15" tetrahedron painting. This piece holds a six point perspective system. If you were inside of this tetrahedron and looking all around at this environment, it would look normal. Owned by artist. |
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Which way. 2003
This 13" spherical painting plays off of the Rhombic Triacontrahedron. People try to live in this structure but find optical illusion worlds in the top and bottom section. Owned by the artist.
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- Curved Space. 1978
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The six point perspective system joins with perfect circles to make this environment of cubes. Owned by the artist. |
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- Curved Space. 1978
- (180º Rotation)
The six point perspective system joins with perfect circles to make this environment of cubes. Owned by the artist.
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