As we learned about neuroscience
this past week, there was a strong emphasis placed on studying the
consciousness of the brain. We learned about the importance of studying the
neurological aspects of the brain because as discussed in lecture one, it is
all these different functions of the brain that human behavior is dependent
upon.
We also learned about many
scientists throughout the course of history who have studied the varying
aspects of the brain and the neurons that exist inside it. Dating all the way
back to Aristotle who first studied the brain and divided it into different
sections, we first started to realize about how complex the human brain is. It
was Freud who then made the first observations about the conscious and
unconscious parts of the brain, which we still focus on today.
It is the neurological aspect of
the brain that artists have become most fascinated with. As described by Ramon
y Cajal, the neurons in the brain are the “butterflies of the soul.” Artists find
the beauty behind this neurological side of the brain because of its
complexity. There is a lot of beauty that exists behind this part of the brain
and one artist who has been able to tap into this is Suzanne Anker. Suzanne
Anker has joined with neuroscientist, Giovanni Frazzeto, and together they have
created the Neuroculture Project, which examines the correlation between modern
brain science and popular culture. Suzanne Anker has taken many varying images
of the neurological systems within the brain and overlapped them, illustrating
the butterfly-like images. It truly is a piece of art to look at and is so cool
to think that that kind of beauty exists in our brain. This only goes to show how
art exists in all parts of this world.
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Landau, Elizabeth. "What the Brain Draws From: Art and
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