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closeHow an artist sees....
Posted by gwenreed on 08 Jul 2011 at 00:39 GMT
It would be most informative to know what the paintings and music excerpts were.
I would rate most Picassos more beautiful than most Ingres, for example. As I would rate most Oriental art more beautiful than most Western art.
Artists see differently, so I would like to see results from artists as compared to general population.
Thanks
RE: How an artist sees....
zzktgirl replied to gwenreed on 08 Jul 2011 at 02:02 GMT
I read the article hoping to see a list of the stimuli as well. The radio broadcast on PRI with Semir Zeki mentioned a few: Bach was considered by all to be beautiful as was Ingres' La Grande Odalisque; Ligeti's work and the "Ugly Duchess" were considered ugly by almost all of the subjects.
RE: RE: How an artist sees....
gwenreed replied to zzktgirl on 08 Jul 2011 at 21:08 GMT
In art school we were taught to choose one camp or another... Ingres vs Delacroix. Ingres was voted most ugly, his Odalisques grotesque distortions. I still shudder to look at them.
Instead of Matsys' Ugly Duchess which is a caricature (when compared to his Moneylender and Wife) I would choose Frans Hals Malle Babbe, and Domenico Ghirlando Old Man and Grandson ... Examples where the great artists do not recoil from what is "ugly" but make a study that is beautiful.
What about Goya Vulcan eating his children? This was actually a mural in the artist's dining room!
And what of Bosch? Very hard to say is it beautiful or ugly.
It goes on and on ...