Paul Dirac said when he sees beauty in his equations, he knows he’s on the right path to progress, while if beauty’s lacking, the math is probably wrong. Does the science behind beauty also apply to visual art? A Hungarian-born Canadian artist named Miklos is about to find out.
Miklos Legrady says that in art, as in science, beauty tells us we’re on the right path; beauty is an algorithm. The philosophy of feng shui, for example, is a practice of arranging the pieces in a living space to create balance with the natural world. Psychiatrists agree that art is therapeutic, which also gives leverage to players who want to step up their game.
Miklos is a war refugee who fled communist Hungary and grew up in Montreal. He knew he was an artist at the age of 14, and seven years later, his work hung in the National Gallery of Canada. Miklos wanted to understand what beauty did. Those questions led to non-verbal languages like body language in dance, the acoustic language of music, or visual language where a picture is worth 980 words (after inflation).
Miklos’s work split twofold; there’s Art School Confidential, a series of large political paintings, then a large set of beautiful paintings called The Butterfly Series. These works reach a level of technical excellence that takes us to a higher level. Just as the written word was stronger than the sword, visual art, being a non-verbal language, has things to teach us too.
