March 2003

The Wittig Report - on the Interface Between Life and Art

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Welcome to the Wittig Report...

On the one hand there is 'Art,' and on the other hand, there is 'Life,'

...and somewhere in the middle, they meet.

February was yet another busy month... twenty-four small paintings,

watercolours and Chinese ink, and for the very first time, since I

began the newsletter in September 2000... no essay. It is not that I

had nothing to write...(heh)... just that I was busy painting, and

never took the time to sit down at the computer, and organise my

thoughts well enough for them to constitute an article.

On the computing front, I have posted three pieces of source code,

fully commented, for anyone interested. Programmers... remember... I

have been painting a lot longer than I have been coding. The utilities

I wrote are functional. Anyone who has a use for them, feel free to

use the code. The anti-spam module is especially useful, to anyone who

wants to send a lot of complaint letters, and save a list of IP

addresses that are used by spammers.

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"The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man

wants to live humanely for one." Wilhelm Steckel

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January 2003, 24 paintings:

For the sake of brevity, I point you to the thumbnail page. Clicking

on any of them will open up the full image pages. The first 26

thumbnails are January's, and the last 24 are February's.

http://www.robertwittig.com/2003winter.html

...and here, is a digital piece I did, which was the inspiration for

the watercolour of the same title... computer Assisted Suicide.

Click Here: http://www.robertwittig.com/full_comp10.html

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Articles: Because I did not write an article this month, I am posting

the URL to the links page for all of the articles I have posted in the

past three years... sort of like reruns.<g>

To browse the articles, click here:

http://www.robertwittig.com/papers1.html

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Source Code: Here are links to the new Source Code page, which

includes the C and QuickBasic code I mentioned above.

Click Here: http://robertwittig.com/compute/source_code.html

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Featured Website - Scott Burdick and Susan Lyon

Two excellent realist painters sharing a single website... well worth

a visit, in my opinion.

To visit Scott and Susans' website...

click here: http://www.scottburdick.com/

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