Professor Nigel Smudgeworth is widely regarded as the world's foremost authority on Rumpeltonian Cubism, primarily because he is the world's foremost authority to say so.
A distinguished scholar of questionable institutional affiliation, Smudgeworth has devoted his career to uncovering the deeper artistic principles hidden within Ralph Rumpelton's MS Paint works. His groundbreaking research has established that what casual observers might call a "mistake" may, under rigorous scholarly examination, represent an unanticipated breakthrough in visual expression.
Smudgeworth is particularly celebrated for his pioneering studies of Good Messy, Paint Fidelity, and the Rumpeltonian Reality Distortion Field. His most controversial paper, The Semiotics of the Crooked Line, argued that an uneven brushstroke should never be corrected until the artist has first determined whether it was "accidentally brilliant."
His famous declaration remains a foundational principle of Rumpeltonian scholarship:
"The eye sees color. The Rumpeltonian mind remembers emotion."
Professor Smudgeworth's credentials have occasionally been questioned. The Archives have been unable to verify the existence of the university where he supposedly earned his doctorate. Smudgeworth maintains that the institution was "temporarily relocated."
Ava Chives considers this explanation entirely satisfactory.
Ralph Rumpelton has never heard of him.
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