Friday, 21 May 2010
Rubens In Vienna
Of all major cities, Vienna has the largest Collection of Rubens Paintings in the world...
Pineal Gland
Post Information About the Pineal Gland Here
The Mechanical Philosophy: http://www.heritage-images.com/Preview/PreviewPage.aspx?id=1158239Rene Descartes' illustration of the co-ordination of the senses, 1692. A visual stimulus travelling from the eye to the pineal gland, H, stops attention being given to an olfactory stimulus. From "Opera Philosophica" by Rene Descartes. (Frankfurt-am-Main, 1692). Originally published in his "Tractatus de homine". (Paris, 1664).
Thursday, 20 May 2010
Project Proposal
General text about the Pineal Gland:
What is it? = Medical scientific bit
What is known about it? = medical scientific bit
What is unknown about it? = Speculatory part (Note to self: Don't hold back)
Go on to add general content about: future predictions and
'higher' life forms, implying alien involvement/intervention.
Also FATE is v. important for tying the link to Rubens. i.e. the Fate of the painting itself perhaps being not fixed.
Future predictions: preemption of events. Especially the notion of the gesture
Q: Is it possible to know exactly what a 'mark' will look like before it has happened?
What do we mean by 'gesture' (Dictionary). Why is this relevant......
Relevance: Describe the theory about all great works of art are part 'universal' (objectively understood)
and part incidental/personal (subjectively understood).
i.e. one choses a subject (face/apples/landscape) this is maintained within the work, but also the process is allowed to take over.
Cezannes Apples are no less about apples just because they are about Cezanne. i.e. they are equally about Apples AND Cezanne simultaneously.
So there is a meeting ground between actions/events/intentions.
"This Project assumes the work of Peter Paul Rubens to be in Constant Flux" as opposed to fixed in space.
e.g. Paintings being transferred from one location to the other (why?). Vienna = not natural habitat.
(Bring in quote from Invention of air?)
If we are to assume that context effects the nature of how an art work is perceived then context has an effect on what it actually is.
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