The music club "Topaz" in the Mechanics - Mathematics Department of Moscow University
No. 191, 1976
(Extra-mathematical associations in mathematical images)
India ink and pencil on paper, 40 x 75 cm.
Portraits of mathematicians and physicists — the former directors of students' music club Topaz (Moscow University) — fill this scene . Scattered amid the busts of persons are various musical and mathematical images, woven together into a busy and complicated setting. In the background sits a radio, besides which hovers a phonograph needle. Toward the foreground, a broken record lies beside the tail of a figure's dragging garment. Bottles, cups, glasses, a pipe, a shoe, are all strewn about, along with sundry other items. Meanwhile, seated to the right, the composer Anton Bruckner, whose musical works were a favorite of the club, casts a watchful eye over the entire scene.
