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RE: Blood Moon (Original work) Do we understand abstract art?

in #art7 years ago

I see abstract art everywhere. In the patterns of worn and cracked tile. In the texture of leather. The grain of wood. I think it has something to do with certain levels of contrast, and certain measures of fractal complexity. The brain just responds to it, even though there's no easy formulation.

I read a story in Scientific American once where they looked at the fractal complexity of Jackson Pollack's work and compared it to photographs of a forest, and there was a mathematical match. So it might have something to do with what we're most comfortable with in our primate brains.

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Wow that's interesting, who would think that we could be so in tune with nature without doing any calculations. I wonder if it had to do with the golden rule?