The Impressionism and evolutionary biology
- Sindhuja N
- Jul 13, 2018
- 2 min read
When artists and scholars talk about Impressionism they fixate on the artist understanding of colour theory and their bold attempts towards rendering light. I for one appreciate these aspects plentiful and humbled by the master class work of art by Monet, Van Gogh and Edgar. But I believe these artists had a clever understanding of human biology specially the knowledge of psychological and evolutionary aspects of human eyes and brain coordination towards perceiving an image or a scenery.
Impressionistic artists created their masterpieces with bold and striking brush strokes understanding that human eyes are trained well enough to understand as a wholesome picture. Checking their art closely creates an immense sense of carefully colliding fragments of abstract paintings and from a distance it’s marvellous and realistic.
In placing the right colours in the right way these artists tapped on the psychological aspect how our brain interpret the information from eyes. Any visual information passed to brain through our eyes are most complex understanding of what we have been seeing throughout our life. So in someway impressionists let us fill out the bits and pieces of their painting by us the viewers as it would make the painting personal to us. It in a deeper sense it’s a fragments of pixels from our life filling in to show you the complete almost realistic picture that you see.
In starry night with curved yellow lines Van Gogh made you see the stars shine,
In the vivid crimson circles Monet unveiled a poppy field in front of you,
In a cloudy white strokes Edgar made a ballet dance rehearsal around you,
In a way whenever you indulge in an impressionistic painting your eyes and mind becomes the tools of the artists.
They made you and your mind as their work of art too by harnessing these amazing potential of your eyes and brain, so when you appreciate yourself, as you deeply appreciate their work!!!
I submit to you this perspective to make you notice one more aspect of these artwork you might not have noticed.
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