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shared by Daryl Bambic on 17 Feb 15 - No Cached

What began with a few horses on the walls of a French cave has blossomed into a human obsession
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desire for beauty is firmly grounded in evolution, a side effect of the struggle to survive and reproduce
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sate a biological drive
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scientific response to the idea that art is a “social construction,” driven by the fads of society
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he basic layout was identical. In each case, people craved a painting that featured a large body of blue water, some open grass, a human figure and a few animals.
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hard-wired preferences, which developed when we were Pleistocene hunter-gatherers roaming the African savannah. The landscapes we find most beautiful are simply those from which we evolved.
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Such unpleasant works of art are inspired, Dutton says, by a “blank-slate view of culture,” which assumes that the mind can learn to appreciate just about anything.
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explaining kitsch.
- Daryl Bambic on 17 Feb 15
  
  This is the contrary opinion to the one that Denis Dutton is proposing about 'art as a biological instinct'.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This is the contrary opinion to the one that Denis Dutton is proposing about 'art as a biological instinct'.</div>
  
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shared by Daryl Bambic on 17 Feb 15 - No Cached

In an age where opinion polls and market research invade almost every aspect of our "democratic/consumer" society (with the notable exception of art), Komar and Melamid's project poses relevant questions that an art-interested public, and society in general often fail to ask: What would art look like if it were to please the greatest number of people? Or conversely: What kind of culture is produced by a society that lives and governs itself by opinion polls?
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discover what a true "people's art"
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