Painting reality or reality out of a painting ?

While I was walking and thinking of random stuff, I came across the painting that was the reason of this post. "A wall painting of a motorcycle that is real". After realizing what I saw, I quickly took a picture with my beloved Nexus S phone. Then the questions started popping up in my head... What is the purpose of painting and why human has the need to paint ?

A little bit anatomy...

From a biological - physiological point of view the brain acts on the rest of the body either by generating patterns of muscle activity or by driving secretion of chemicals called hormones. The functions of the brain depend on the ability of neurons to transmit electrochemical signals to other cells, and their ability to respond appropriately to electrochemical signals received from other cells.

From a philosophical point of view, what makes the brain special in comparison to other organs is that it forms the physical structure that generates the mind. Heres the problem... if we stick on what we know about brain, from bio/physiological point of view we pretty much know how it works and reacts. But if we start talking about the MIND... we are pretty much blind..

Beauty and the Brain...

According to brain expert Professor Semir Zeki, of the University College London, MRI scans show a specific part of the brain lighting up when something beautiful is seen or heard. Zeki found, by examining MRI images of his subjects’ brains, that when people look at something they find beautiful, a portion in the front part of the brain called the medial orbito-frontal cortex “lights up.”  :
It really tells you seeking beauty is in fact seeking to reward your pleasure centers.

Why do we do art...


Nowadays an artist may have many reasons to "catch" the soul of reality in order to present it on a canvas so to plesure his or our medial orbito-frontal cortex.
Artists erase reality to a greater or lesser extent, and substitute their own reality - created by their brains, instead.

-- Semir Zeki


  1. Art is the expression of thought we cannot express and that is why I like it so much. Well that is my theory.


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