The mental roots of visual art and the mind-body problem, the intellect often serves this purpose as does a reliance on it to legitimize or rationalize our actions and our desires. It’s the work of being a human being.
Because mythology connects mind and body, bad art is often more interesting than good art. Image theory forms highly flexible structures that wiggle and jiggle just due to creative brain activity of the art rat race. Eliphalet Giraffe is a product of the young field of dance neuroscience, which explores dance’s unusual brain-body connection.
To live life in all its fullness, we have to do art.
The more mental sweat it takes to draw it out, the more funny it will be subsequently anchored in the paper giving this painting a uniquely modern edge. We went down the rabbit hole together of getting faster and faster at it. Art runs on brainpower but also trust.
When you look at good art, it looks back at you. Perception is influenced by the observer's wishes and fears.
Mind body problem
Body mind dualism for sceptical or skeptical
From a theoretical point of view, the first stages of perception may be not conscious, and that conscious perception develops from a long-range conversation across cortical regions.
Lionel Naccache
If you think there's a fixed meaning of the word consciousness, and we're searching for that, then you're already making a mistake. Unfortunately there's no easy, pain free way to solve a problem like this.
Dual representation of thinking, the opposing pair of figurativeness versus reckless abstraction.
Bad paintings that make you think.
What makes good art? The proper function of artworks is to live, not to exist.
Mind-body dualism looking at "What is not considered as art".
What underlying mental processes are activated when we look at those pictures? An identity shift for many outsider pictures who started making active plans to control their own destiny.
When you look at a portrait and the face is exactly the same to every detail is that art or is it just boring? Unless creating a sense of otherworldly non-human perspective. Memorable paintings don't work in a vacuum. The philosopher Descartes suggested that the pineal gland was the seat of the soul.
Subjective (art) is very powerful only in that it can communicate strong ideas, and emotions. Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity (Henry James).
Like an insurgency, art theory has crept into the daily lives of contemporary artists and reached the level of near obsession. Weathering Joe’s conceptual practice has been dedicated to exploring the human condition through the awareness of self and others in search for a comprehensive totality.
Hard work fallacy, thinking too much. It's more stick than carrot.
I have little patience for scientists who take on a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes when the drilling is easy.
Albert Einstein
In Pascal's view, the human condition and the futile nature of life is characterized by inconstancy, boredom, and anxiety.
Odd-bird metamodernism invites viewers to explore the unexplored world of their imagination. While these forces remain essentially invisible, their presence is ubiquitous.
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