The eye goes blind when it only wants to see why - Jelaluddin Rumi
Every work of art is both what it means and what it is. In arts language, it has both content and form.
Form is very specific. It is exactly what it is. Meaning or content, on the other hand, is often ambiguous. The same form can mean different, often contradictory, things to different people. And one person may find multiple...
8/28/08
Dear V.S. Ramachandran,
In "The Science of Art" you express the hope that your paper will "stimulate a dialog between artists, visual physiologists and evolutionary biologists". I am taking you at your word. I am a painter with a great interest in cognitive psychology and neuroscience.
I found your suggestion, that through early vision/limbic connections the earliest stages of visual process...
An Artist's Inquiry into the Cognitive, Emotional, and Evolutionary Basis for Art
Summary:
A painting, a piece of music, a dance, are complex perceptual events. These events, stabilized as works of art, can be experienced repeatedly, enabling us to assimilate complexities we could not master in a single exposure. Intelligence may in part be defined as the ability to assimilate complex events, and as...
Art is semantically equivocal. Meaning is attributed to art by individuals and cultures. It is not inherent in the work. The genres of still life and landscape were invented by painters to avoid meaning. The first still life and the first landscape without narrative or historical figures were radical paintings.
These paintings are about perception; the artists perception of the subject matter and t...
A painting, a piece of music, a dance are complex perceptual events.
These events, stabilized as works of art, can be experienced repeatedly enabling us to assimilate complexities we could not master in a single exposure.
Intelligence may in part be defined as the ability to assimilate complex events. Assimilating complex perceptual events though largely a non-conscious process is beneficial and so ...