Dick Termes

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Dick Termes is an innovative American artist who uses a six point perspective system that he devised, to create unique paintings on large spheres called Termespheres.

Termes in his gallery

1 Termespheres
2 Workshops & Lectures
3 Education
4 Awards
5 External links

[edit] Termespheres

Termespheres are paintings on spherical canvases that capture an entire environment (Up, Down, Left, Right, Front & Back). Termespheres are typically hung by small chains and rotated with electric ceiling motors to reveal a complete world as the spheres slowly rotate. Optical illusions tend to appear as the spheres rotate. Although the image is painted on the outside of the convex sphere, in an instant the vantage point can change. The rotation then appears to reverse direction and you get the sensation that you are inside the painting viewing the concave surface of the inside of the sphere. Although the six point perspective seems very non-linear and distorted, any way you look at the spheres, the perspectives read true. Dick acknowledges strong influences by M.C. Escher and Buckminster Fuller.

[edit] Workshops & Lectures

Dick Termes conducts lectures and workshops for schools, education professionals, mathematicians and the general public, revealing the connections between art and math/science in his work. He performs workshops and lectures covering topics including:

slides/exhibits of Termespheres
one to six point perspective
creating polyhedra models
three dimensional structures
making geodesic domes

[edit] Education

Dick Termes received a B.S. with an art major from Black Hills State University in 1964, a Masters Degree in Art in 1969 from the University of Wyoming, and Masters of Fine Arts at Otis Art Institute of Los Angeles County, 1971.