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... The play was set in 1904 when both Picasso and Einstein were in their twenties and about to make changes in the way the world looked at things. ... Martin talks about the need for a fourth dimension to illustrate his book, and then later in the play Picasso talks about drawing the fourth dimension. ... Steve Martin uses Einstein to express the scientific reasoning and thought process that hides inside himself. On the contrary he uses other characters such as Picasso to show his values in art and Elvis “the Visitor” to emphasis entertainment and it’s power to capture an audience. Einstein may think a certain way about dimensions beyond the third but Picasso believes he has the answer and it is in his pencil that is pushed hard enough to go “through the paper into another dimension” (Martin 56). It is this difference in opinion that stirs the laughable conversations between Einstein and Picasso. ...
Einstein, like Picasso and Elvis, steers away from what people consider the norm. ... We see Einstein and Picasso in a quarrel about art and science, trying to justify why one or the other is better. Einstein comments, “I make beautiful things with a pencil” (Martin 42) trying to explain for Picasso that science is just as wonderful and tasteful as painting is. Science was Einstein’s religion just as art was Picasso’s, so in essence both men made beauty in separate ways. Finally they have a drawing duel in which Picasso draws a picture and Einstein writes a formula.
Approximate Word count = 1252
Approximate Pages = 5
(250 words per page double spaced)
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