Shallow art cause amnesia and other things I can't remember. The past exists only in our neuronal memory.
Conceptualism mostly relies upon language but our neurons need pictures or image for their living.
Reminiscence is not precision and truth in art is not skill and life-like accuracy. Inaccessible worlds and forgotten histories are about paintings that makes them memorable. Borderline art and crazy paintings must be more worth remembering than a perfect photography of Alois Alzheimer.
Mental life (memory, imagination...) is embodied in the whole range of material media.
W.J.T. Mitchell, What do pictures want ? Pictures require time and free space.
Reminiscences make certain paintings more memorable because memory is the medium of good art.
"I want people to remember themselves, in much the same way that babies discover their fingers.”
Billie Grace Lynn
Memorable paintings make sense.
Visual humor has leadership to built memory from Adam and Eve early times.
The last sentence is the section in an art web site where hippocampal neurons are gravely remembered.