# Einstein and picasso meet

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"The play is set in in a real, famous bar in Paris, the 'Lapin Agile.' Picasso and Einstein meet in this bar and it's very much in the beginning. Picasso never met Einstein, yet intellectual historians have noted fascinating parallels between the two men's lives.$^{\text{[note 1]}}$ Each in his own. Did you know that Albert Einstein ran into Pablo Picasso in a bistro in Paris in ? And that they had a long conversation about life and love.

Einstein's approach to space and time was not primarily mathematical. Notions of aesthetics were essential to his discovery in of relativity and a new representation for light, and then in of a means to widen relativity theory to include gravity. Nor were Picasso's studies of space totally artistic in the narrow sense of this term, as his interest in scientific developments reveals.

Picasso's new aesthetic for the Demoiselles was the reduction of forms to geometry. This is called passage.

Lorentz, of whom Einstein wrote, "I admire this man like no other; I might say, I love him.

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Similarly Lorentz had almost formulated a proper theory of electromagnetic phenomena, and yet could not bring himself to interpret it as predicting the relativity of space and time. Einstein and Picasso, on the other hand, because they sought realities beyond appearances, each accomplished something entirely new.

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Nor were the two men's personal working styles dissimilar. Both came to terms early on with the loneliness of the creative effort. As Einstein wrote some years later, "I live in the solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. Both men emphasized that despite their apparently revolutionary advances, they were actually extending the work of past masters. Technology too played a role in Picasso's development of cubism, as we see from his adroit use of photographs as models for paintings and his interest in cinematography.

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Similarly did technology provide key input into Einstein's thinking toward relativity inparticularly the design of electrical dynamos and practical problems of wireless telegraphy. Yet at first, both their seminal works were terribly misunderstood.

That Einstein had accomplished something new in would not be apparent to everyone until If relativity was appreciated at all before that, it was mostly for the wrong reasons.

Let us not forget that Einstein sat in the Swiss Federal Patent Office from until and received his first academic position on the basis of research results that had nothing to do with relativity theory. In the fall of Picasso put the painting aside and did not exhibit it again until It was not widely recognized as anything revolutionary until the early s.

Just as only Einstein understood his paper on electrodynamics as a major conceptual advance, so did Picasso with the Demoiselles. Picasso's and Einstein's personal lives bear similarities and differences that, to some extent, reflect their intellectual and social milieus. Recently discovered love letters between Einstein and his college girlfriend, Mileva Maric, reveal a side of him as yet unexplored.

ByMileva, Einstein's wife sincewas in a position of disfavor not unlike that of Picasso's then-mistress Fernande Olivier. Like Picasso with Fernande, Einstein had learned to harness Mileva's moods to his vision, and his passions provided some of the dynamics for his greatest creations.

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All of this influenced their practice of art and was instrumental in producing early offshoots of cubism that were formulated specifically to diverge from cubism's "figurativeness," as this term had been reinterpreted. An early representative of this trend was Wassily Kandinsky, who produced the first entirely nonfigurative painting in He was among artists who were especially interested in the mass-energy equivalence, X rays and radioactivity, which they took as proof that, ultimately, everything is amorphous.

While art was moving toward a highly abstractive phase, physics underwent a parallel movement after the geometrization of space and time in Einstein's general relativity theory ofand then even more dramatically in the s with the development of quantum theory.

Yet pure abstraction was a Rubicon that Picasso never crossed, and Einstein never agreed with the high abstractions of quantum theory. Each man ultimately lost contact with the implications of his own revolution. Instead of referring to an "interplay" between art and science, we must begin to speak of ideas that were developed in common by artists and scientists. The age-old quest of both art and science has been to seek new representations of phenomena beyond appearances.

This effort becomes focused at the nascent moment of creativity, when boundaries dissolve between disciplines and notions of aesthetics became paramount. Lincoln Deseret News theater editor Published: November 28, The fictional meeting takes place just one year before Einstein published his "Theory of Relativity" and three years before Picasso stunned the art world with "Les Demoiselles," a painting that ushered in the era of cubism.

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## Picasso meets Einstein Steve Martin's award-winning play is a 'What if . . . '

I'll do a 'phone patch' from a studio in Salt Lake City. Pablo Picasso was actually a customer at the Lapin Agile, a bar in the heart of Montmartre. She was recently swept off her feet and into bed by Picasso, and has come to the Lapin in the hope of seeing him again. She shows everyone a drawing the artist dashed off for her as a keepsake. This attracts the interest of the next character to arrive, an art dealer called Sagot Derek Washington.

Enter Picasso Maboud "E" Ebrahimzadeh. He is young, self-confident and arrogant. He senses a rival talent in Einstein, and the two engage in a debate about genius that involves everyone in the bar.

Picasso is the aggressor Ebrahimzadeh gives him an appropriate intensitybut the quiet, precise Einstein easily holds his own. Artist and scientist eventually find common ground: Both are seeking beauty; both are creating a new way to look at the world; both look to the future for their ideas.

The people in the bar, assuming that things come in threes, sense that another genius is on the way. Right on cue, in comes Charles Dabernow Schmendiman. Played with immense energy by Michael Wood, Schmendiman is a flamboyant character, dripping with ego and full of inventions - all of them bad.

It is obvious that he is not the genius the world is waiting for.