"Eppur se Muove" (And yet it does move) (2010) Painting by Carlos Boni Bonifácio
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Seller Carlos Boni Bonifácio
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Original Artwork
Painting,
Oil
- Dimensions Height 47.2in, Width 37.8in
- Categories Paintings under $20,000 Surrealism
I found the boy’s torso after a certain manipulation around the formula of Werner Boy’s Surface.
The Pendulum’s sphere is a convex mirror reflecting Galileo who is trying to persuade the Doges of Venice about the existence of other moons around other planets of Solar System, namely Jupiter.
The Venetian masks are falling one after the other while hit by the movements of the Foucault apparatus alongside its oscillation plane changes, proving the rotation of the Earth around its axis.
The Venetian masks symbolize the establishment and the bureaucracy.
A special ruler is stuck on the ground. Its divisions follow the sequence of the squared numbers emphasizing the existence of the Gravity’s constant of acceleration.
The phrase "Eppur se Muove" (meaning "And yet it does move") was mumbled by Galileo talking to himself at the end of the trial moved by the Inquisition that found him guilty by suspicion of heresy.
Related themes
Several Individual and Colective Exibitions since 1978 until 2010
- Nationality: PORTUGAL
- Date of birth : 1951
- Artistic domains:
- Groups: Contemporary Portuguese Artists