Re: [-empyre-] Profile of the Brazilian cirtic Mario Schenberg

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Hi All, dear Regina,

I read your recent messages about neoconcrete.
Thank you for the information : I'm discovering many interesting people
(I was completely ignorant of) and learning a lot about Brazil and
its culture.

In your text you mention this sentence from Mario Schenberg :
"It is the intuition that shows the solution of the problems."
This appreciation comes from a scientist with a passion for art.
It reminds me questions I sometimes discussed with friends
- "how" a scientist "discovers" something ?
- "how" an artist "creates" a work, a piece of art ?
- is the mental process for scientists and artists (in their
  respective activities) so different, or comparable in some way ?
Of course I've no answer, but something about that in the discussions
of the neoconcrete ?

Best

Isabel

am 15.03.2004 13:45 Uhr schrieb arteonline unter
arteonline@arteonline.arq.br:

> Mario Schenberg is one of the richest profile of the history of science in
> Brazil:  he was physicist and critic of art, and he did not follow the
> politics career too because, in the two times that he was elect state
> deputy, his mandate was annulled.  Beyond his dedication to the physics, he
> took off photos, he prepared catalogues and he studied eastern science.
> During the dictatorship, he did not leave the country, he believed that to
> stay here in Brazil  was his civic duty.
> 
> In the physics, Schenberg detached as few. Coexisted with the colleagues
> José Leite Lopes and Cesar Lattes and was disciple of the Russian Gleb
> Wataghin.  He worked with quantum, thermodynamic mechanics and astrophysics.
> The physicist conjugated a shining career with his beliefs in the existence
> of a parafísica. He believed  that the intuition was one of the main weapons
> of science.  Schenberg said that the man of science needed to be open to the
> stranger.  "I do not guide myself only for the reasoning", he  said in an
> interview to Science Today in 1984.  "It is the intuition that shows the
> solution of the problems."
> 
> It was in one of his trips to exterior that Schenberg arrived at one of the
> main discoveries of his career:  the Urca process, that allowed to
> understand the collapse of new stars.  This occurred in 1940, when the
> Brazilian was in the United States invitated by the astrophysical Russian
> George Gamow.
> Schenberg always nourished passion for the art.  His work as critic was
> recognized for public and artists.  The physicist wrote texts on Alfredo
> Volpi, Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica, among others.  His  two women in
> life - he was proud of being single - were artists.  He had an enviable
> collection of art. "As critic of art, the artists always interested him, he
> was interested to know the way artists linked themselves in the world", said
> the physics  Amélia Hamburger, member of the Advice of the Chair Mario
> Schenberg, Institute of Advanced Studies of the USP.
> 
> During the dictatorship Schenberg dedicated himself with more assiduity to
> art.  Annulled and forbidden to enter in the university campus, he started
> to live of the reviews that he wrote.  "At this time, he discovered that the
> artistic way was much more solidary that the academic".
> 
> 
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