Wired by human evolution to be a confident “believer”, the beholder makes new synaptic connections and permutations in his brain. We hate deception, which provokes shame, guilt and sorrow. Nietzshe, The Birth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Music, 1872 The problem-solving brain of the beholder investigates them, but deep in us resides the un-conscious desire for that they keep the secret, because they are beyond words.Ĭ. In his The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche demonstrated our subjective Dionysian need for drama, tragedies, myths and mysteries, essential to all culture.
DE MAERE, Neurosciences et ConnoisseurshipĪll paintings, even abstract ones, tell a story unconsciously created by the beholder. This is seen in the diagram, the result of an enquiry (2005-2011) with famous connoisseurs in art made by Jan DE MAERE. The intuitive experience of art provokes curiosity, excitement and enjoyment in our non-conscious mind, stabilized by the autonomy, the discipline and the need for security of our homeostasis. The basic processes of our ancient instincts define our experiences heavily. Understanding brain activity reveals some of the hidden parameters with which we judge what we subjectively believe, like and dislike in art. Neuroscience explains some of the mysteries that the art experience exerts on the beholder. What each of us experiences as “beauty” is a brain activity, fostering pleasure, trust and cooperation. The "artness" of the work of art is coined by Jan DE MAERE as “ the ‘quiddity’, its ontological condition as art, expressed in degrees of intensity”. I am extremely emotional about this major concern for humanity. Art gives us a special feeling, intertwined with our personality, taste, culture and specific domain knowledge. IS: A great monographic exhibition in an important museum, big enough to show my big canvasses. Before the appearance of language and history as we know them, art was already a vital tool of human visual communication created by the brain, imagined on the walls of caves. Artists unknowingly exploiting the laws of the organization of the brain, unaware of the underlying neural physiology of the effect of their painting strategy on the beholder.Įxhibition Ioan Sbârciu in the Hugo Voeten Art Center (Belgium) IS: Art can make us see, what a photographer would miss. Therefore, the following text, written for my exhibition in the Hugo Voeten Art Center is a good introduction to my work. His approach is also interesting for my students. But, I live my personal subjectivity in a painterly world, without too many words. Since a few years, I discuss often with my friend neuroscientist Jan DE MAERE, about art as an experience. Appearance and disappearance of form, colour and line are my ways of expression. IS: Nature, ecology and social awareness are more important than ever in art. Ioan Sb îrciu: Former rector of the University of Art and Design in Cluj-Napoca, Ioan Sbârciu.
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