
Finally around to experimenting with DALL-E 2. Believe this a game changer for creatives…
Finally around to experimenting with DALL-E 2. Believe this a game changer for creatives…
“Haeckel published 100 fabulous prints beginning in 1889 in a series of ten books called Kunstformen der Natur (“Art Forms in Nature”)…”
https://www.openculture.com/2017/11/ernst-haeckels-sublime-drawings-of-flora-and-fauna.html
“Over the past 20 years, I visited 193 museums in 42 different countries. Equipped with 1,500 Munsell colour chips – the world-standard samples for colour science – I examined 139,892 works of art, searching for violet. I concluded that there were indeed only a very few artworks before the 1860s that contained this colour from my childhood….
…I can’t help but wonder whether a muon shower might have enhanced our ability to see violet midway through the 19th century on Earth.”
Allen Tager
https://psyche.co/amp/ideas/why-it-took-us-thousands-of-years-to-see-the-colour-violet
And more here…
https://brill.com/view/journals/jocc/18/3-4/article-p262_2.xml?language=en
Gazing at a painting feels like an almost magical encounter with another mind but what real effects does art have on us?
https://aeon.co/essays/works-of-art-compel-our-attention-but-can-they-change-us
We can learn much about how a historical period viewed the abilities of its children by studying its children’s literature.
Enter an Archive of 6,000 Historical Children’s Books, All Digitized and Free to Read Online
Using a wealth of available information from Leonardo’s notebooks, various biographical resources, and some well-reasoned speculation, Shlain sets out to perform a “posthumous brain scan” seeking to illuminate the unique wiring of Da Vinci’s brain and how it explains his unparalleled creativity.
https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/11/17/leonardos-brain-leonard-shlain/
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