Posts tagged Art

What Our Minds Create: Interpretation of images It’s a big skull. No, wait, it’s two people under an arch. Hold on, it’s a skull again. Two very different images can be perceived in the trick picture Blossom and Decay (see above). Now we are one step closer to working out how the brain spontaneously flips between such views, with the discovery of what may be the relevant brain region. The precise neural mechanism that provokes the brain to switch its view of a scene is unknown, but it is thought to play a major role in perception by acting as a sort of reality check, says Ryota Kanai of University College London. “We need a trigger to prompt possible different interpretations so that we don’t get stuck with a potentially incorrect interpretation of the world.”  Learn more about the possible trigger researchers have discovered. From NewScientist

What Our Minds Create: Interpretation of images

It’s a big skull. No, wait, it’s two people under an arch. Hold on, it’s a skull again. Two very different images can be perceived in the trick picture Blossom and Decay (see above). Now we are one step closer to working out how the brain spontaneously flips between such views, with the discovery of what may be the relevant brain region.

The precise neural mechanism that provokes the brain to switch its view of a scene is unknown, but it is thought to play a major role in perception by acting as a sort of reality check, says Ryota Kanai of University College London. “We need a trigger to prompt possible different interpretations so that we don’t get stuck with a potentially incorrect interpretation of the world.”  Learn more about the possible trigger researchers have discovered.

From NewScientist

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Art For The Mind

The human mind can integrate many different disciplines to create wonderful things. Look at how the mind of Daniel Palacios worked at the intersection of art, mechanics, movement, and social interaction to create the Wave short film. This is a singular example of what one man’s mind created, and illustrates the capacity in all of us.

Spektrolith by Herbert Brandl Painters’ minds create wonderful art through the ability to imagine and form a unique balance of color, shape, texture and space.  In order for a painting to move others emotionally, painters must tap into their own (and others’) emotional center, the limbic system, to elicit feelings.  That is what makes art truly moving. Check out more of Herbert Brandl’s paintings and see his mind’s work.

Spektrolith by Herbert Brandl

Painters’ minds create wonderful art through the ability to imagine and form a unique balance of color, shape, texture and space.  In order for a painting to move others emotionally, painters must tap into their own (and others’) emotional center, the limbic system, to elicit feelings.  That is what makes art truly moving.

Check out more of Herbert Brandl’s paintings and see his mind’s work.