Post 9

Disclaimer: I have seen these videos before

Some key facts from this video are that that being interested in something is determined by the brain. It "lights up" when it finds something interesting, and when the firing stops, it signals that we are bored.
The abstraction of art can be used to appeal to the human mind. Similar to the red stripes with Herring Gull.
Culture influences art, and what people find interesting and aesthetic.
A lot of what we find beautiful goes back to primitive thoughts, and what is found around us.

In the article, the keys points I picked up on were using lines to represent objects dates back to our ancestors drawing in the sand.
Even a simple series of shapes can be recognized as a face, (My personal favorite is non traditional, but looks like this:  ^.^)
As a survival instinct, our brain was trained to easily find faces, which is why we think wall outlets look like a face.
The brain recognizes color contrast but not light contrast

Both speakers touched upon a very important point, that what humans generally find attractive or aesthetic, are because of primal urges, and survival techniques.

Personally, I was a bit bored by the videos and article because I have seen them before, and didn't really learn anything new from them. They had valuable information, and it is important to know why we feel the way we do about specific art, it just could have been better quality for the video. Both the video and article touch on visual culture and explained why we see things the way we do. As stated before, it is important to know why we feel the way we do about art, and how those feelings originated. It also influences how art is created.


 Key facts from video 2 are the exaggeration of forms are created to be representational of important factors, or appeal to humans because of survival traits. The Venus of Willendorf and the Harring Gull Seagulls are similear in ideals. The red stripe, causes stimulation, the more stripes, the more stimulation. Similear to that of the figurine, or why we abstract the human form. The exaggeration of sexual organs is still seen in art styles today, such as anime.