Alfred Jensen: Concordance.DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTSWho was Alfred Jensen Peter Alfred Jensen (July 7, 1903 – January 13, 1988) was a Danish politician and government minister. He was a member of the Danish Communist Party (DKP). Jensen was born in Århus. He was a member of Frihedsrådet during the Second World War. (1903--81)? A geometric abstractionist, you say? But his trademark grids of tiny, brightly colored triangles and squares are so heavily impastoed that, from ten feet away, the geometry wiggles wiggles - [scientific computation] In solving partial differential equations by finite difference and similar methods, wiggles are sawtooth (up-down-up-down) oscillations at the shortest wavelength representable on the grid. like a desert horizon. An atelier mystic, a la Mark Tobey or Morris Graves Morris Cole Graves (August 28, 1910 – May 5, 2001) was an American painter and a founder of the Northwest School (art). Early years Born the sixth son of a Methodist family in Fox Valley, Oregon, Graves was a country boy. ? Hardly: The "esoterica esoterica Medtalk A synonym for 'oddballs'–unusual causes of common complaints. See Anecdotal, Fascunomia. " on which Jensen draws includes math and physics as well as Chinese and Mayan calendrical systems. Perhaps Dia's season-long dozen-painting exhibition--which includes the never-before-publicly-exhibited Great Pyramid, 1979, a twelve-panel masterpiece considered the artist's last major statement--will provide an answer. Sept. 19--June 16. |
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