What do the Austrian-British philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein and the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian have in common? For philosopher and artist Ren?e Jorgensen Bolinger, the two have similar beliefs about the logic of space.
?Many of Mondrian?s pieces explore the relationships between adjacent spaces,? says Bolinger ?and in particular the formative role of each on the boundaries and possibilities of the other. I based this painting [see above] off of Wittgenstein?s Tractatus, in which he develops a theory of meaning grounded in the idea that propositions have meaning only insofar as they constrain the ways the world could be; a meaningful proposition is thus very like one of Mondrian?s color squares, forming a boundary and limiting the possible configurations of the adjacent spaces.?
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