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Blaise Pascal, acrylic on cardboard, 2021
Pascal was a brilliant child prodigy, who went on to be- come one of the greatest mathematicians, physicists, inventors, and writers of the seventeenth century. The author of Pensées and the Provincial Letters has said, “Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.” This work of older Pascal, with long and curly hair, seated and fac- ing to the left, is painted after a portrait done by French painter Philippe de Champagne (1602-1674). Adopting an ascetic lifestyle, Pascal wrote eloquently about the insoluble paradoxes of the human condition, blending stoic and skeptical arguments to bring his readers to a point of confusion and despair, at which they would accept his famous wager and embrace God.
Borislav Pekić, acrylic on canvas, 2022
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