Malcolm Ludvigsen: Difference between revisions
Mludvigsen (talk | contribs) No edit summary |
Mludvigsen (talk | contribs) No edit summary |
||
| Line 5: | Line 5: | ||
Oil-painter with a particular interest in figure and en plein-air painting, and professor of mathematics with a special interest in relativity, black holes, the [[positive energy theorem]] and cosmology. Author of well-known book on general relativity <ref>General Relativity - a geometric approach. |
Oil-painter with a particular interest in figure and en plein-air painting, and professor of mathematics with a special interest in relativity, black holes, the [[positive energy theorem]] and cosmology. Author of well-known book on general relativity <ref>General Relativity - a geometric approach. |
||
Cambridge University Press 1999.</ref>. |
Cambridge University Press 1999. ISBN 0 521 63019 3.</ref>. |
||
Revision as of 21:31, 23 February 2008
 | Template:Wikify is deprecated. Please use a more specific cleanup template as listed in the documentation. |
 |
 | This article has not been added to any content categories. Please help out by adding categories to it so that it can be listed with similar articles. (February 2008) |
 | A major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject. |
Oil-painter with a particular interest in figure and en plein-air painting, and professor of mathematics with a special interest in relativity, black holes, the positive energy theorem and cosmology. Author of well-known book on general relativity [1].
Some quotes:
Whenever possible I like to paint in the open air, directly in front of the subject.
This, I think, gives my work a vibrancy and vitality sadly lacking in much of studio
painting. In fact, I disapprove of studios. Someone once said that a brush stroke
in the field is worth twenty in the studio, and my own experience makes me heartily
agree with this.
When I started painting I think the thing that first attracted me was Ruskin's
exhortation that all men, as part of their morning salutations,
should go out and paint a picture of the sky.
This sounded like a very nice thing to do, so I decided to give it a go, and I've not really stopped painting since. [citation needed]
My subject matter is the ordinary, the domestic and the common place. I do not seek out the spectacular, the shocking or the disturbing. I'm drawn to the beautiful but do not seek it out. If my paintings have any purpose, apart from my own pleasure in painting them, it is to show the extraordinary in the ordinary. I do not consider myself part of the artistic establishment, which I find backward looking and conservative, but prefer to go my own way and ignore present fads and fashions.[citation needed]
Malcolm Ludvigsen's paintings are popular and can be found in galleries throughout the UK and the US.
External links
His website is www.malcolmludvigsen.org.uk
References
- ^ General Relativity - a geometric approach. Cambridge University Press 1999. ISBN 0 521 63019 3.