Art Blog - Art & Aesthetics

Here are my thoughts about abstract art and this piece that I created with watercolor pencils. When the eye sends light signals to the brain, those impulses goes through the Lateral Geniculate Nucleii to the visual cortex (the projection screen in the back of the head) which then routes the signals back to the LGN via the information processing channels of the "subconscious" including memory, associations, personality and all other so-called intentional states of mind like beliefs and desires which are extensions of the intellect and emotions, and which account for things like empathy and spirituality in art and religion. Without this perceptual feedback, the owner of the brain cannot recognize the image before his eyes… Continue reading… 6 comments

Art is aesthetic like humor is funny. It's the precarious balance of details that we appreciate. Both art and humor are illusions that often require a suspension of one's beliefs, but sometimes our expectations don't jive with reality. Art happens when things go right and humor happens when things go wrong. There two types of humor: poetic and practical. Practical humor is when there's a glitch in the medium, as in the semantics of a joke like the one about the skunk that went to church and sat in his own "pew." (Think "pee-yew!") Linguist Noam Chomsky devised the following sentence: "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously." It shows that good grammar and syntax do not necessarily make good sense. In abstract art, such empty symbols are called "significant forms… Continue reading… 2 comments