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What’s Behind Our Emotional Reactions to Art?
Scientists are conducting studies and using eye-tracking technology to investigate whether it’s possible to articulate the experience of viewing art.
Research
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Can Brain Science Explain Why We Like Certain Artworks?
In a new study, researchers propose that the mind creates an opinion of an artwork after dissecting it into discrete elements.
In Brief
The Fascinating Physics of Jackson Pollock’s "Drip" Paintings
Researchers from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and Brown University studied the defining characteristics of Pollock's techniques, which may help authenticate his action paintings.
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Icelandic Scientists Find Link Between Creativity and Mental Disorders
There's something strangely attractive about the stereotype of the crazy artist.
Opinion
Can a Vacation Really Make You More Creative?
Last week, we all got a little jealous when we heard that the creative agency ThinkPARALLAX gave its employees $1,500 each and an extra day off to travel the world in search of inspiration. “As owners of a creative agency, we’re always thinking about how to inspire creativity,” a blog post by the fi
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Is Creativity Linked to Mobility?
“Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil," American author Nathaniel Hawthorne once wrote.