2008. december 17., szerda

ANAGRAM FOR NICERON

Let me give a short appendix to the Anamorphosis Days in London.
One of the most remarkable lecture was about Niceron by James Hunt Professor of Physics at the University of Guelph in Canada.
Jean-François Niceron (1613-1646) was a French painter, designer and professor of mathematics in the convent of the Minim friars in Paris and in Rome. His study of natural philosophy concentrated on geometrical optics and perspective, to which he dedicated a successful book: La perspective curieuse ou Magie artificielle des effets merveilleux (Paris, 1638).
Marcel Duchamp, who was familiar with the works of Niceron (and other figures of perspective and anamorphoses, for example Bosse, Maignan, de Breuil, Kircher as I know from Jean Clair's article: Marcel Duchamp at la tradition des perspecteurs) wrote a Latin anagram for the Latin name of Father Jean-François Niceron:

FRATER IOANNES FRANCISCUS NICERONUS

RARUS FERIENS TURCAS, ANNON CONFICIES?


which means: What did you put together from these scattered Turks? – there is no doubt that this sentence is about the illustration that James Hunt was dealing with dissoving the secret of it in a brilliant way. It is the LXIX illustration in Nicerons' La Perspective Curieuse.
Also I have written an anagram in Hungarian:

E RÁCSOS ARCÚ FÉRFIÚN NINCSEN RONTÁS

which means: on this man's face with grids, there is not any mistakes.
I made some English anagrams too in my poor English, please forgive me and please continue the line if you like….

A FANCY TREASURE IN CIRCUS OF NONSENS'

ACCUSER IN FRONT OF RENAISSANCE RUINS
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2008. december 10., szerda

Anamorphic days

ANAMORPHIC ART at the London Knowledge Lab and the National Gallery, December 12 & 13 2008

A TECHNICAL & DEMONSTRATIONS SEMINAR Friday 12 December, 2.30–5.00pm, London Knowledge Lab, WC1N 3QS
This is an informal seminar moving from demonstrations of anamorphic art, including some new ideas to the technical aspects of resolving images in the computer and the mathematics of creating new anamorphoses.
Participants: Phillip Kent, István Orosz, James Hunt, John Sharp, Andrew Crompton.

Anamorphic pictures are usually described as distorted, amorph images that only get their meanings if you look at it from the right angle, or if you put on them a special mirror-object. Within my lecture, I'd like to present those anamorphoses of mine that are "meaningful" pictures in themselves, but if you look at them form a special angle, or if you put on them a cylindrical mirror, for example, another new meaning reveals which is independent from the first one.
Saturday 13 December, 10.30 – 4.00pm
NATIONAL GALLERY STUDY DAY, Sainsbury Wing Theatre
Curious Perspective: Anamorphosis in Art
Unpicking The Ambassadors: Anamorphosis in Context Hans Holbein's portrait of The Ambassadors is an iconic painting, full of symbolism and references to the troubled religious and political context within which it was made. Hovering
in its foreground is one of the world's most famous anamorphic images, a skull which becomes recognisable when the viewer stands in the correct position at the side of the picture.
Speakers: Dr Louise Govier, Dr J V Field, John Sharp, James Hunt, Philip Steadman, Patrick Hughes.
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P.s.: One of my other anamorphosis was published in the Poe Review: