Byline: Brianne Wesolowski
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Philosophy, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, and Statistical Aesthetics in the Age of Uncertainty
In 1900, Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) completed Philosophy, one of a trio of murals that, along with a contribution from Franz Matsch (1861-1942), had been commissioned to adorn the ceiling of the University of Vienna’s Great Hall (see figure 1). The given theme for the entire set of murals (each over four meters in height) was…