(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1921- )
Lives and works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Based on one of the few existing photographs
of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, this dark portrait is one
of a series of portraits of artists, authors, philosophers and other
intellectuals that Thomas Chimes painted in the mid seventies, inspired
by an obsessive interest in the writings of the French absurdist
writer Alfred Jarry. Wittgenstein and Jarry were both, for Chimes,
radicals that sought to break free of the cultural and social limitations
produced by the habits of language and unexamined myths. |
