Art challenges, Aesthetic theories need to adapt
Our brains are still hard-wired for the savannah. Mice are associated with transformation and adaptability due to their ability to navigate through challenging environments. A loss of diversity, say, or a proliferation of the “wrong” kind of pictures — may predispose us to shallowness and a whole range of bad feelings, as well as slow artistic death. The images captured these days disappeared into the slipstream of history, things do change over time, artworks need to adapt.
Are humans hardwired for equating equations with beauty? Beauty comes in many shapes and sizes. Griffins, dragons and sphinxes share with real fauna the power to fascinate people.
There are also many ways of seeing, art is a commodity. Forget paintings, never forget spirits of things. Evolution is one of artistic life’s constants. New paintings emerge; old ones become extinct. Conceptually extravagant, hard-to-categorize artworks show up in galleries. What a boring world if we were all the same.
Aesthetic theory suggests that diversification of one into many art movements, each with distinct environmental roles, can affect art business, humorous critic statements and other aspects of art life.
The imperial system survived because it was flexible. It was far more adaptable than the flailing democracy it replaced in the first century B.C.
From a purely biological standpoint, like etching techniques, the success of a partnership hinges mainly on one thing, reproduction.
New insights into the adaptive reuse of genetic concepts.
From a psychological perspective, silence and secrets are the most damaging. From an adaptive perspective, pictures are selfish, because evolution disfavors genes that promote altruism, hiding the meaning behind the makers mind.
"I continued to be subjected to medical examinations and psychological testing. One specialist was interested in me for a time because he believed that only genetic mutations could rewire the brain to cope with the environmental and moral challenges of a ruined, overpopulated world. But he found nothing. He had never found anything. He admitted it was just a sensible, attractive theory."
Joy Williams
Wholesome modernism does not require an explanation.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less, you should do that, it’s fun!
Marie Curie
Adaptation requires to continuously look for new ways to do art and to learn technical tips. Fitness is a measure of the capacity of an artwork to survive and reproduce (regarding art prints and contemporary etching), and making it has often proved an awkward fit.
Curiosity art challenges and the need to adapt, truth has weasled its way out of memory.
Evolution is powerful. Early internet sites reveal a menagerie of strange creatures with puzzling bodies and unfamiliar appendages. “They just looked like freaky beasts,” said Howard Cerithium. Artworks born from an idea exemplifies the spirit that brings such imagination to new insights into art explanation.
The Mugging of the Muse is allegorical under the umbrella of a theory of Art.
This page won't write itself. The muse represents art, inspiration, and freedom. This opens up a new area of debate, rather than shutting the book.
Beauty comes in many flavors, shapes and sizes under the umbrella of a theory of Art. Evolution is powerful.