Richard Feynman (1918 – 1988), Nobel Laureate, teacher, icon and genius – one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century, possessed an unquenchable thirst for knowledge and adventure that drove him to pursue seemingly unrelated paths. Feynman pursued biology, percussion, Maya hieroglyphs, and lock picking - subjects totally unconnected to his primary expertise which is physics. Another one of his interest was art.
Richard Feynman started taking art lessons at the age of 44, and continued drawing for the rest of his life. These include portraits of his close friends, wife and daughter and professional models that posed for him at his friend’s studio. Feynman was also an avid supporter of topless bars, which he used to frequent a lot while he was at Caltech, which also explains why he loved drawing nude models.
Feynman signed all of his artwork with the pseudonym “Ofey”. Here are some of his sketches.
Richard Feymann was a very talented man, but was also fond of practical jokes http://www.fampeople.com/articles-outrageous-lack-of-water-richard-feynman
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ReplyDeletei like that you can see the progression in skill. some of these are really good.
ReplyDeleteand if you've seen his daughter, the one sketch of her and a friend(?) looks just like her.
I was one of Feynman's models for roughly a year in 1980-81. I met him at a party given by the man with the beard in the color portrait (Zorthian, a sculptor) in the San Gabriel foothills. We worked in his basement, next to a set of conga drums. He was always a gentleman with me, nice. Very funny, I remember we laughed a lot. He was a talker. I can't remember anything we talked about. Once however, I did ask him about the Manhattan project...driving on the 405 on our way to a party. I wish I had been paying better attention, but I was a very young 27 full of my own problems and hare-brained adventures.
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