Max_Ernst_making_Lissajous_Figures_1942.jpg (236 × 320 pixels, file size: 77 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
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| Description | Photograph of the artist Max Ernst making Lissajous Figures using a pendulum full of paint, New York, 1942 |
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| Author or copyright owner |
not known |
| Source (WP:NFCC#4) | Original publication: Kenneth M. Swezey (1952) Science Magic, McGraw-Hill. Immediate source: http://plumedeplombe.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/max-ernst-levity-and-gravity-in-his.html |
| Date of publication | 1952 |
| Use in article (WP:NFCC#7) | Mathematics and art |
| Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8) | The historic image shows how the Dadaist artist Max Ernst chose to use purely physical means (a coupled pendulum dispensing paint) to create mathematical figures as the basis for artworks in his New York period in 1942. |
| Not replaceable with free media because (WP:NFCC#1) |
This is an actual photograph from 1942 showing Max Ernst using the pioneering technique of mathematical art. Any other photo of the same thing will also be in copyright; no replacement can ever be created. |
| Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3) | The image is used only here; it is the only image of Max Ernst at work in the article and indeed on Wikipedia. It is at poor resolution. |
| Respect for commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2) |
The image was published over 60 years ago in Swezey's book, and is here reproduced at low resolution. |
| Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Mathematics and art//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Max_Ernst_making_Lissajous_Figures_1942.jpgtrue | |
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