Memories reveal time’s slipperiness.
In order to start making art, one needs a theory that explains what art is. And such a theory gives an artist the possibility to universalize their art. A recourse to theory liberates artists from the danger that their art would be perceived only as a local curiosity. Theory opens a perspective for art to become universal.
Boris Groys, Under the gaze of theory.
What media, techniques, and compositional methods?
The comfort zone is nasty for your brain. Feed it the same images over and over because it's safe and routine, and your art-coded neurons literally stop noticing it.
What is it about certain paintings that make them memorable?
They are programmed to pay attention to what's new ans worth noticing.
Mark Twain
Lizard brain makes strong memory and good art. Sappy art is gut-wrenching.
Do the arts still measure the gap between what is shown and what is meant?
What makes certain paintings memorable on the internet?
These objects represent a bygone era and ideals that are rooted in nostalgia for a simpler time.
What makes art memorable? strong memory good art.
A young mistress is better than an old master.
H.G. Wells
Fairies are potentially the most powerful art device because emotions and memory are built into them.
What makes cool paintings memorable?
Abuse of insipid images in contemporary art practice draw amygdala activation, and amygdala activation in response to threat-related artistic facial expressions draws affective arousal.
The surface meaning and the underlying meaning of collecting spiders are not the same. Visual expression is a matter of life and death because memorable paintings are fearful.
Fear makes strong memory. Neuronal art wake up sleepers.
The ghosts of our past will always light up our future.
Whimsy makes us all happy anyway, being silly does not need special knowledge, insanity often works for us. With that in mind, we hold that abstraction and images are two authentic paths to artistic truth.
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