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Trunk Collector
Join Date: Sep-2003
Location: Loveland, CO
Country: USA
Posts: 1,371
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Originally Posted by HB Smith
Brian,
The constant in Andy's two display descriptions in his above post is human perception. The way we perceive things changes with circumstance (e.g. lighting, movement, visual weight) - this is the artistic fact. Whether we like something or not is opinion based upon artistic individuality. But there are certain fundamental perceptive constants we must live with as long as Homo sapiens are our intended audience.
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I hesitate to respond again since I said I would leave it alone, but I wanted to thank you Howard for pointing out something that may make some sense to me.
If all humans expect and need to see the same things in an artistic composition to find it pleasing or to qualify as art...humans are essentially hard-wired in their artistic perception...THAT I could accept as fact. Not the composition of the art, but the composition of the human brain. Whether that is true or not, I'll leave to others, since I don't have the art, neuroscience or psychology expertise to comment on.
Thanks Howard
Brian
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