{"id":51353,"date":"2016-07-17T18:10:58","date_gmt":"2016-07-17T18:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=51353"},"modified":"2016-07-17T18:10:58","modified_gmt":"2016-07-17T18:10:58","slug":"sundays-second-surprise-the-van-gogh-doublequote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=51353","title":{"rendered":"Sunday’s second surprise — the Van Gogh DoubleQuote"},"content":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron<\/strong> — Van Gogh, Rilke, El Greco, Von K\u00e1rm\u00e1n. Hokusai, Jakob — rich correspondences between singificant items in widely separate disciplines ]
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My friend Steve Engel<\/strong> suggested this variant on my personal favorite DoubleQuote<\/strong> — the one pairing Van Gogh<\/strong> with Von K\u00e1rm\u00e1n<\/strong> — and as a lover of Rainer Maria Rilke<\/strong> I very much appreciate his suggestion, which bridges painting and poetry as my original DQ brdges arts and sciences:<\/p>\n

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I’ve also featured that particular van Gogh<\/strong> painting in another DQ, this one showing the sky as painted by El Greco<\/strong> and Van Gogh<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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El Greco<\/strong> was first among my loves in painting, and I’ve long thought that the differences between how El Greco<\/strong> sees the sky and how Van Gogh<\/strong> sees it could stand in for the differences between religions — you don’t see Van Gokkites<\/strong> attacking El Grekkites<\/strong> in museums on account of the different visions of their preferred painters, and if we could view religions as visionary rather than prescriptive, taking from them what a poetic, metaphoric, non-literal, non-fundamentalist, non-reductionist reading would approve, we might be a little farther on our way towards interfaith harmony<\/strong>, and away from religiously-sanctionable violence<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

I’m thinking here of St Francis<\/strong>‘ meeting with the Sultan Malik al-Kamil<\/strong>, and more recently Thomas Merton<\/strong>‘s meetings with Buddhist contemplatives<\/a>, Sufis and the like..<\/p>\n

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Here’s the Von K\u00e1rm\u00e1n \/ Van Gogh DQ<\/strong>, which I value in light of Hermann Hesse<\/strong>‘s Glass Bead Game<\/a> as a clear bridge between one of the crucial dualities of recent centuries — the needless and fruitless schism between the arts and sciences, which has given rise not only the rantings of Christopher Hitchens<\/strong> and his less elegant disciple Bill Maher<\/strong>, but to such other matters as the Papal condemnation and “forgiveness” 359 years later of Galileo Galilei<\/strong><\/a>, Charles Babbage<\/strong>‘s Ninth Bridgewater Treatise<\/a>, Andrew White<\/strong>‘s A History of the Warfare of Science With Theology in ChristendomW<\/a>, and CP Snow<\/strong>‘s The Two Cultures<\/a>: <\/p>\n

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And finally, here’s an ugraded version of the other DQ of mine<\/strong> that seeks to bridge the arts and sciences — featuring Hokusai<\/strong>‘s celebrated woodblock print, The Great Wave off Kanagawa<\/strong> (upper panel, below) and Jakob<\/strong> aka nikozy92<\/strong>‘s fractal wave<\/a>, which I’ve flipped horizontally to make its parallel with the Hokusai clearer (lower panel) — Jakob<\/strong>‘s is a much improved version of a fractal wave compared with the one I’d been using until today<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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[ by Charles Cameron — Van Gogh, Rilke, El Greco, Von K\u00e1rm\u00e1n. Hokusai, Jakob — rich correspondences between singificant items in widely separate disciplines ] . My friend Steve Engel suggested this variant on my personal favorite DoubleQuote — the one pairing Van Gogh with Von K\u00e1rm\u00e1n — and as a lover of Rainer Maria […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1387,12,384,526,627,655,741,533,32,946,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analogical","category-analogy","category-art","category-charles-cameron","category-doublequotes","category-mathematics","category-poetry","category-religion","category-science","category-sunday-surprise","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51353"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51395,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51353\/revisions\/51395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}