Comments on: Tycho Brahe (2007)

By: ryan

ryan — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 15:47:40 +0000

lmfao, i’m in school right now. doing a report on him and this guys a retaerded. he blew half his nose off? wow. and he died cause his bladder exploded.

By: Entrepreneurial Geekiness » ShardCore exhibiting @ Tin Drum (Kemptown)

Entrepreneurial Geekiness » ShardCore exhibiting @ Tin Drum (Kemptown) — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:28:30 +0000

[...] event will have seen some of ShardCore’s intriguing artwork – most recently he spoke about Tycho Brahe (the man with the missing nose, a dwarf and the moose). Picture from the event [...]

By: EgriBikaver

EgriBikaver — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 02:20:51 +0000

i am frequently passing through your orbit, and i either get perturbed, or sucked into your gravitational field. sometimes you let me go and i zoom off into the kupier belt, but i often return.
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this is my new favorite.

By: chateaugranville

chateaugranville — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:16:35 +0000

Hi and cheers for the considered response. I really look forward to seeing what you do. I’d like to add to my original posting that I usually interpret your portraits as having a certain bleakness and cold fatalism about them. But perhaps, following on from what you’ve said, that’s also inevitable given the historical and geographical provenance of your subjects. If you do subsequently decide to source some of your subjects from older and more distant civilizations it will be particularly interesting for me to see whether I continue to get the same feeling from them – as the chances are that they will be from places with a warmer climate.

chateaugranville, Vancouver.

By: shardcore

shardcore — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 08:24:00 +0000

Hi Chateau,

Fair comment, my choices of subjects are inevitably driven from my own knowledge and opinions, and they are, by default, Northern European ones, since I am Northern European, with a Northern European education and experience.

It does appear that the history of thought is driven by white males, but of course this is not the case, merely a function of the (relatively recent) historical dominance of the West.

There is also a paucity of representations of more ancient scientists, for obvious reasons – though my experience of creating a representation of Tycho, from a bewildering range of historical portraits, has perhaps left me in good stead to try my hand at other ambiguous portraits.

Watch this space.

shardcore

By: chateaugranville

chateaugranville — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 06:07:43 +0000

Hello Shardcore

Another great painting. I really enjoy keeping up with your work, particularly your paintings and inquisition interviews. But I hope you’ll allow me to make one criticism. Would it be fair to say that the paintings you create with a science/scientist theme appear to have a Euro-centric bias..? Any chance you could expand to other broadly defined civilizations that have contributed to scientific knowledge and progress? How about from the Islamic world? You’d be spoilt for choice; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_science

chateaugranville