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Jean Arp "Beauty and the Brain" |
| Baltimore, MD - The Walters Art Museum's latest exhibition includes 276 sculptures. Not to worry. "Beauty and the Brain", A Neural Approach to Aesthetics" shouldn't take more than 15 minutes to get through. Most of the art works are no bigger than a lemon. The larger questions the show leaves you with might linger a bit longer.
"Beauty and the Brain" is part exhibition and part experiment. There is actually only one actual object: a 1959 abstract sculpture, in white plaster, created by Jean Arp called "La Dame de Delos (The Woman of Delos)." The show itself consists of 11 wall panels - one which is based on "Delos" and 10 more on other examples of the artist's work. It's really a collaboration between the museum and the Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute at Johns Hopkins University. Created with a laser scanner and computer morphing software, each panel is a kind of virtual reality chart featuring the original and 24 variations of a single sculpture. You'll need 3-D glasses to view the pictures which morph Arp's work from round and blobby to pointy and attenuated, and back again. Beauty and the Brain is both an exhibition and an experiment. To learn and experience more on this interesting exhibition, CLICK HERE. |
 "The Woman of Delos" Jean Arp |
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