Article: Art and Neuroscience-Cerebral Art History
- even though paintings and drawings are two-dimensional our minds can clearly see and recognize what is being represented.
- artist create the illusion of depth and brightness to make the work seem more realistic.
-That outlines in sketches use the same neural processes as the edges of things we see in the real world. The individual cells in our visual system that pick out light and dark edges also respond to lines.
-Our brains have a special affinity for faces and that is why we can tell that a smiley face made by keyboard symbols is a smiley face even though it does not look like a face. Even infants are able to identify with faces.
-We are more emotionally engaged when the detail-oriented part of our visual system is distracted.
-People have three different color cones in their eyes retina: red, green and blue. Artists use these to play with the difference between color and luminance.
-Two different processing streams for our visual system: The what and the where.
- Visual system is organized so that the center gaze is more focused on small detail and peripheral vision has lower resolution and does better with big blurry things.
Video: Aesthetics: Philosophy of the Arts
This video went through many different theories on the philosophy of aesthetics from Aristotle to the present.
-I learned that many things that we consider art today were not considered that until the 1960's mainly. Such as books, motion pictures, posters, television, even music.
- The reason for this was that art had always been considered as original and not duplicated.
-It was interesting to see how the theorist thinking about art forms and its rules changed over the course of centuries.
-And in turn how the art itself changed its form.
Video: CARTA: Neurobiology Neurology and Art and Aesthetics
-Showed the processes of the brain when creating art and while viewing art.
-A very complex video
2. Which Philosopher's theory on aesthetics do you feel is most important?
I
felt that from the video Imannuel Kant’s theory on aesthetics was
important. His theory was from the 18th
century. I felt that Kant felt the rules
of aesthetics should be changed. He did
not believe that there were rules on how beauty was created. He felt that artists were geniuses and
creators of beauty. He did not believe
they belonged in the grouping of skilled craftsmen because creating pure beauty
could not be taught. I liked his quote “Through
the genius nature set rules to art.”
3. What do you think about Changeux and Ramachandran scientific view of aesthetics and art? What was the most interesting fact you discovered from each speakers lecture?
The video of Changeux's scientific view was a bit hard to understand due to small writing on the slides and his accent. From what I understood he was explaining what happens within our brain when art is created and viewed. It basically was the brains view of art.
As for Ramachandran, I found his speech to be interesting, he was better at explaining his thoughts. His view on aesthetics was based on eight laws of art(universal to aesthetics).
4. How do the videos and article relate to the readings in the text?
I believe the videos added to the content of the textbook. It gave us a different look at why aestetics are important and how it effects us. It was interesting to see how our brain and visual system are involved in how we view a work of art.
5. What is your opinion of the films and article? How do they add depth to understanding of the topics in the textbook readings?
I thought the videos were very good and informative. The only part I did not enjoy was Changeux's speech due to his accent being hard to understand and his slides were difficult to read. They add a depth to the readings in the textbook by going into detail about what our brain and visual system goes through. That different parts of the brain are activated for different emotions and how artists use the way our vision system processes things to add to their art work.
The video of Changeux's scientific view was a bit hard to understand due to small writing on the slides and his accent. From what I understood he was explaining what happens within our brain when art is created and viewed. It basically was the brains view of art.
As for Ramachandran, I found his speech to be interesting, he was better at explaining his thoughts. His view on aesthetics was based on eight laws of art(universal to aesthetics).
4. How do the videos and article relate to the readings in the text?
I believe the videos added to the content of the textbook. It gave us a different look at why aestetics are important and how it effects us. It was interesting to see how our brain and visual system are involved in how we view a work of art.
5. What is your opinion of the films and article? How do they add depth to understanding of the topics in the textbook readings?
I thought the videos were very good and informative. The only part I did not enjoy was Changeux's speech due to his accent being hard to understand and his slides were difficult to read. They add a depth to the readings in the textbook by going into detail about what our brain and visual system goes through. That different parts of the brain are activated for different emotions and how artists use the way our vision system processes things to add to their art work.
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