Art artificially manipulates the mind. The artist uses symbols, colors, shapes, timing, angles, sounds, word play and other techniques to play on the audience's psychology, subconscious, emotions, audio and optical physiology and internal sensory processing systems. One significant point about this is that it shows that the mind can be artificially manipulated. That humans can … Continue reading Art and the the manipulation of the mind
Month: June 2015
Picasso and the relevance of beauty in his art
Picasso said he wasn't always trying to make a work that was beautiful-- his focus was sometimes on other qualities and things--, and he considered the expected cliched commentaries about the work's beauty, or lack thereof, to be missing the point. Many of his cubist works were trying to depict three dimensions in a two … Continue reading Picasso and the relevance of beauty in his art