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This portrait bust of Dr. Herbert A. Simon, one of the twentieth century'a most important social scientists, an early pioneer of artificial intelligence, Nobel Prize winner in Economics, godfather to the computer sciences at Carnegie Mellon University, and an early champion of Rappaport while the younger man was still a student and thereafter a long-time friend, was painted sometime after the artist's series of self-portraits in the summer of 1986. However, Dr. Simon thought the work too flattering, and the two men decided they needed a larger work for Dr. Simon's official portrait for Carnegie Mellon University which was painted in the following summer of 1987.
Here, as well as that of those preceding self-portraits, the linen canvas, stretched tightly across and stapled to an old floor, is then heavily sized in rabbit-skin glue which on drying tightens further accentuating the markings from the uneven wooden flooring. The image thus is forced to emerge from the spacial plane which is overtly pronounced by these random markings.
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