"What modern painters are trying to do,
if they only knew it, is paint invariants."
— James J. Gibson in Leonardo
(Vol. 11, pp. 227-235.
Pergamon Press Ltd., 1978)
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Sean Socha
Imagination/Reality: I see modern art's usefulness for Stevens in its reconfiguration of the relationship between imagination and reality…. Stevens will incorporate a device from painting to illustrate his poetic idea. For instance, "Metaphors of a Magnifico" (Harmonium) illustrates an idea about the fragmentation and/or subjectivity of reality and the importance of perspective by incorporating the Cubist technique of multiple perspectives. |
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Einstein wanted to know what was invariant (the same) for all observers. The original title for his theory was (translated from German) "Theory of Invariants." — Wikipedia |