Artists delve into the past, but do not dwell in the past, through personal memories and cultural histories.
The body's arty molecule, dopamine, is triggered by the mere anticipation of something novel. Many artworks have wrecked on the shoals of neuroscience, but our neurons need images for their living; this is NOT art.
Subliminal nostalgia (memory, imagination, mental life) is embodied in the whole range of material media.
Unlike sleep-dependent consolidation, wake consolidation strengthened a context-independent representation of objects and was independent of hippocampal function.
The past exists only in our neuronal memory. Good pictures understand that artists careers begin as projects with uncertain futures. Shallow art cause amnesia and other things I can't remember.
Reminiscences make certain paintings more memorable because memory is the medium of good art.
Art memories make sense, flat body of art is pretty uniformly forgettable.
Visual humor has leadership to built memory shown from Adam and Eve etching early times.
"I want people to remember themselves, in much the same way that babies discover their fingers.
Billie Grace Lynn
Art theory has to be easy to explain, easy to follow and intuitive, with some spark of irreverence.
What makes certain paintings more memorable? An urgent need to capture memory from a distorted point of view.
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 picture of Alois Alzheimer.
The last sentence is the section in an art web site where hippocampal neurons are gravely remembered. This is an intriguing reminder that in neuronal art we should always be careful of giving a simple answer. Art helps to retard the ageing process because brainy artworks have more grey matter, you should do that, it’s fun. We dilate our sense of time to get more information.
W.J.T. Mitchell, What do pictures want? The root problem behind most of what we are seeing is that colorful images require time and free space. From Isak Denesen, we know that the sorrows of life are bearable "if only we can convert them" into a story or memorable images.
That's the bottom line.
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