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Art suggestion within realm of neuroscience. (self.neuroscience)
submitted 12y ago by [deleted]
*Here's the deal:* The neuroscience department at my University is giving $500 to an art and sciences student team to create a painting to be put up in the main neuroscience building **permanently**.
I am a biochemistry undergrad and my girlfriend is an art (painting) major. I can think of a few ideas that would be biochemistry related, but I would like some opinions from r/neuroscience.
**What is, to you, the most beautiful mechanism, anatomical models/parts, or any other idea within the realm of neuroscience that if you had the chance you would love to see in a painting?**
If we win, you get to visit your idea anytime in the future! I'll let you guys know. Thanks for reading.
I am a biochemistry undergrad and my girlfriend is an art (painting) major. I can think of a few ideas that would be biochemistry related, but I would like some opinions from r/neuroscience.
**What is, to you, the most beautiful mechanism, anatomical models/parts, or any other idea within the realm of neuroscience that if you had the chance you would love to see in a painting?**
If we win, you get to visit your idea anytime in the future! I'll let you guys know. Thanks for reading.
RobinStewart1983 3 points
Hey, I am reasonably qualified for this topic :) I am a neuroscientist and amateur artist.
I built a style around a couple of neuroscience facts I learnt. 1. That the human eye has very few blue cones in your focal point (so all my artwork is blue), and 2. That the mind is predisposed to recognise particular shapes through evolutionary development (i.e. we pick up human faces, spiders, birds and the footfalls of large predators instinctively).
I created a few images that intertwined these two themes, i.e. fuzzy human faces in blue shades, blue spiders and what not. The idea being that because you are predisposed to recognise these images, but your eye has difficulty focussing on the lines, that your interpretation of the images is very instinctive and peripheral to your perspective.
http://www.robinstewart.co.uk/portfolio/artwork
The blue thing is particularly interesting. I suspect the reason for it is that the only blue in nature is the sky. And when scanning the sky there is no need to focus on the background, only what is in front of it (i.e. the big bastard hawk that wants to eat you). Your eye is therefore naturally predisposed to picking out and focussing on birds.
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I built a style around a couple of neuroscience facts I learnt. 1. That the human eye has very few blue cones in your focal point (so all my artwork is blue), and 2. That the mind is predisposed to recognise particular shapes through evolutionary development (i.e. we pick up human faces, spiders, birds and the footfalls of large predators instinctively).
I created a few images that intertwined these two themes, i.e. fuzzy human faces in blue shades, blue spiders and what not. The idea being that because you are predisposed to recognise these images, but your eye has difficulty focussing on the lines, that your interpretation of the images is very instinctive and peripheral to your perspective.
http://www.robinstewart.co.uk/portfolio/artwork
The blue thing is particularly interesting. I suspect the reason for it is that the only blue in nature is the sky. And when scanning the sky there is no need to focus on the background, only what is in front of it (i.e. the big bastard hawk that wants to eat you). Your eye is therefore naturally predisposed to picking out and focussing on birds.
Edit: tense
JonDrucker86 3 points
how about the fractal geometry of the brain, and similarities to other natural objects similarly organized? there are some sweet juxtapositions possible here
like these:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/Brain_coral.jpg
http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/graphics/img/f0015.jpg
http://www.nextbarnover.com/images/cauliflower.jpg
like these:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/Brain_coral.jpg
http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/graphics/img/f0015.jpg
http://www.nextbarnover.com/images/cauliflower.jpg
Nero_the_GREAT 2 points
For sure Fractal geometry or even Sacred Geometry. Check out, Wolfgang Beyer and his discoveries located here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandelbrot_set
omgzpplz 1 points
Yes, I just watched *The Secret Life of Chaos*. Fascinating movie. Thanks for the idea.
VisualSnow 2 points
neurons and synapses :)
taylorRichie 1 points
Alex Grey... Nothing makes me think Neuroscience like an Alex Grey(esque) piece of art.
http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/cliff11.jpg
http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/cliff11.jpg
efinkel11 1 points
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I64X7vHSHOE
[deleted] [OP] 1 points
DTI is one of my favorite sources of art
JonDrucker86 1 points
too easy
[deleted] [OP] 1 points
Obviously you wouldn't just use a random DTI, but do something with it. I'm not the artist here ;)
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