9 Aug
2013
The Economist: The Utility of Bad Art
Check out a link to a behavioral economics piece on the perception of art — here.
OTHER POSTS
Can Art Teach Patience?
Have you ever noticed how long people look at a painting in a museum or gallery? Surveys have clocked view times anywhere between 10 and 17 seconds. The Louvre estimated that visitors studied the Mona Lisa, the most famous painting in the world, for an astoundingly low average of 15 seconds. Our increasingly online, instantaneous existence accounts for […]
Mind Blowing Art
Young Korean artist Jee Young Lee recently presented her beautiful, surrealistic and Photoshop-free photography exhibition named “Stage of Mind”. The magic happens in the artist’s small 3,6 x 4,1 x 2,4-meter studio in Seoul. The artist builds these highly dramatic, psychedelic and visually intense scenes herself, ensuring that every teeny tiny detail is hauntingly perfect […]
The Pottery Process: A Revealing Behind the Scenes Look at One Potter’s Process
In this short video, Danners of Lucid Practice reveals her pottery process. Using several vantage points and no words, Danners briefly takes us into her world of pottery. Sometimes we take for granted the amazing pieces that are made from a slab of clay. Enjoy this video and leave a comment or question about the […]
Why meditate?
Why meditate? When you sit still and watch your thoughts rise and fall, without commenting, without criticizing or editing, gradually your mind, which before was a no-fly zone, becomes your inner neighborhood, a place you like to visit, a clean, well-lit garden, free of fear and tension. Via Dharma Forest