Key Concepts for this week:
Video: CARTA: Neurobiology Neurology and Art and Aesthetics
Article: CNN- What the Brain Draws From: Art and neuroscience
Video: CARTA: Neurobiology Neurology and Art and Aesthetics
- Human aesthetics and perceptions have evolved over time
- Perceptions can be altered based off of cultural or emotional factors
- Different parts of the brain are making connections constantly while in the process of making it, that there is more than simply seeing and redistributing information
Article: CNN- What the Brain Draws From: Art and neuroscience
- How the brain processes different functions of art such as light and contrast
- Ways in which artists stimulate a viewers brain
- The brain naturally has picked up certain visual cues over the ages
What do you think about Changeux and Ramachandran’s scientific view of aesthetics and art? What was the most interesting fact you discovered from each speakers lecture?
I loved Ramachandran’s talk the most as he looks at the laws of aesthetics as a way to unravel the possibility of there being a science behind the arts. It built upon Changeux’s lecture that aesthetics are a by-product of evolution. But Ramachandran’s ideas dabbles beyond the human aesthetic and looks at other species such as butterflies that evolved in their aesthetic. One fact that I found to be the most interesting was that “...there are thirty visual areas in the human brain that are concerned primarily with visual processing...” It reinforces that there is more to making artwork than simply seeing an image and copying it. Evolution enables us to perceive, distort, and reconstruct ideas into making new artwork.
Interesting Fact:
Changeux’s talk was insightful as he took a strong stance about how our aesthetic choices are a by product of evolution. I never thought about there being art before cave paintings. So I found it fascinating that humans started making tools 2.5 million years ago, and took so long to evolve to where humans developed the ability to make cave paintings (demonstrate artistic composition) only 100,000 years ago.
Relating it all back to visual culture:
They all speak about how aesthetics are natural within our society. We as humans overtime have gained this knowledge and built up what we find to be visually appealing. Never did I realize this potentially came from an evolutionary standpoint. We all process information different and there are different ways we process things based off of light and contrast.
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PART2:
Most interesting discovery made while watching the video:
That some of the most early forms of art discovered are of women. I thought it was cave animals.
What do you think of Vilayanur's Ramachandran's theory with the chicks?
Weird thing with beaks and that color being more attractive being a natural evolution becoming a desired thing.
Connections between images of females today as opposed to modern day portrayals?
The main difference is that in the past we looked to fertilityand being naturally more curvy as the desired look. This having to do with a bigger women was most likely a more well off and wealthy women being from a better background they could eat more and this was then desired for looking more natural and having better fertility. The modern day look is to over exadurate certain features without notice whether that be a more curvy woman to be seen as more curvy without notice as well as a skinny girl editing to make her look more skinny for the desired look of the company. Deliberate over exaggeration of the past versus modern hidden exaduration.
I loved Ramachandran’s talk the most as he looks at the laws of aesthetics as a way to unravel the possibility of there being a science behind the arts. It built upon Changeux’s lecture that aesthetics are a by-product of evolution. But Ramachandran’s ideas dabbles beyond the human aesthetic and looks at other species such as butterflies that evolved in their aesthetic. One fact that I found to be the most interesting was that “...there are thirty visual areas in the human brain that are concerned primarily with visual processing...” It reinforces that there is more to making artwork than simply seeing an image and copying it. Evolution enables us to perceive, distort, and reconstruct ideas into making new artwork.
Interesting Fact:
Changeux’s talk was insightful as he took a strong stance about how our aesthetic choices are a by product of evolution. I never thought about there being art before cave paintings. So I found it fascinating that humans started making tools 2.5 million years ago, and took so long to evolve to where humans developed the ability to make cave paintings (demonstrate artistic composition) only 100,000 years ago.
Relating it all back to visual culture:
They all speak about how aesthetics are natural within our society. We as humans overtime have gained this knowledge and built up what we find to be visually appealing. Never did I realize this potentially came from an evolutionary standpoint. We all process information different and there are different ways we process things based off of light and contrast.
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PART2:
Most interesting discovery made while watching the video:
That some of the most early forms of art discovered are of women. I thought it was cave animals.
What do you think of Vilayanur's Ramachandran's theory with the chicks?
Weird thing with beaks and that color being more attractive being a natural evolution becoming a desired thing.
Connections between images of females today as opposed to modern day portrayals?
The main difference is that in the past we looked to fertilityand being naturally more curvy as the desired look. This having to do with a bigger women was most likely a more well off and wealthy women being from a better background they could eat more and this was then desired for looking more natural and having better fertility. The modern day look is to over exadurate certain features without notice whether that be a more curvy woman to be seen as more curvy without notice as well as a skinny girl editing to make her look more skinny for the desired look of the company. Deliberate over exaggeration of the past versus modern hidden exaduration.
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