I’m drawn here quite often to thinking about impressionist art like Monet or Pissarro which have a beautiful incompleteness- they’re just scratches and blobs on canvas but done so well that the brain is drawn into completing the image. That’s partly why paintings like that have such aesthetic appeal- because they’re engaging the mechanisms of the brain in completing the picture.
Anil Seth — I’m drawn here quite often to thinking about impressionist a
I’m drawn here quite often to thinking about impressionist art like Monet or Pissarro which have a beautiful incompleteness- they’re just scratches and blobs on canvas but done so well that the brain is drawn into completing the image. That’s…