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A
reflection
on the
art of
Ronald Davis
an
exhibition catalog essay
by
Hans Christian von Baeyer
an exhibition at The
New York Academy of Sciences
2 East 63 Street
New York, NY 10021
September 23 - December 5, 1986
HANS
CHRISTIAN VON BAEYER
is Professor of Physics at
The College of William and Mary in
Williamsburg, Virginia,
He is the author of the award winning book
Rainbows, Snowflakes and Quarks
and is Contributing Editor
of the Academy's magazine, The Sciences.
87 1/4 x 66 3/4 inches
acrylic and dry pigment on canvas
There is a tension in the art of Ronald Davis between the finite and the infinite, between what can be circumscribed and that which eludes circumscription, between realization and void. Where is the borderline between the absolute and the relative, between the concrete and the abstracted?
In this light, we asked a theoretical physicist to reflect on the art of Ronald Davis and to consider the larger issue of the common wellspring of human imagination before it branches off to become realized in the arts or the sciences.
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