Lee Love on sat 11 aug 07
I found some interesting links to brain research and beauty.
What is so interesting to me, is that these scientists are using
reductive tools to example wholistic processes. But they are doing it
in a way that doesn't crush the life out of examining this human
process.
The first one includes are really nice condensed version of the
philosophy of beauty. It also talks about how "less is more." In
our society we often use a phallic measure to just the worth of an
object. But where beauty is concerned, simple lines and gesture is
unusually more powerful:
Neural Correlates of Beauty
Interesting work using MRI to see where in the brain we recognize beauty.
http://www.neuroesthetics.org/research/index.html
Nadia and Cave Painting are mentinoned at the above link. There is
more explaination below, and many images as examples:
Nadia and Cave Painting
http://www.humphrey.org.uk/papers/1998CaveArt.pdf
Jaynes questions if folks Homer was writing about had the
same kind of mind as we do. I am guessing they did. But there
might have been something different going on in both the Cave painters
and the Jomon people. Jaynes blames it on the development of the
brain. I blame it on our separation from nature. The Jomon people
still lived in the garden of Eden. (another interesting note is that
they are finding Jomon culture in China, Russia and Korea., so it
isn't Japanese but was only discovered there first):
Julian Jaynes. Does language hamper artistic virtuosity?
http://www.accampbell.uklinux.net/essays/skeptic/jaynes.html
"Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct
and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we
don't start measuring her limbs."
--Picasso
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Lee in Mashiko, Japan
Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
http://mashikopots.blogspot.com/
"To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts." -
Henry David Thoreau
"Let the beauty we love be what we do." - Rumi
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