Art and the Brain Flashcards
1
Q
What were the 8 elements of it
A
- Extraction and contrasts
- symmetry
- perceptual grouping
- abhorrence of unique vantage point
- isolating single detail
- implied meaning or puzzle
- discovering hidden simalirites
- peak shift principle
2
Q
what is it in general?
A
artist experiences challenged to process sense perception, associate emotion and elaborate concepts
reduces work for the brain through abstraxtiation and stimulation
EXAGGERATION & PUZZLE SOLVING
3
Q
what is peak shift principle?
A
take the essence and exaggerate it
Rats and Rectangles attracted to the core of it
4
Q
What is an example of art that supports it?
A
Chola Bronze sculptures (800 AD)
YaYoi Kusama - Repetitive Vision
5
Q
What challenges it?
A
P.opular Sky
Turbulence - Shirin Neshat (1957)
6
Q
3 divisions on how the brain works in art
A
internalogic - brain activity
evolutionary - conventions
neurophysiology - grouping synchro
7
Q
science of art made by who and when
A
VS Ramachandran 1999
Theory of Aesthetics Universals
