Leonardo and Allegory

Keizer, Joost

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“…Paintings' narrative is too thin and too remote, and the protagonists are too dissimilar to allow deep enough identification and empathy. A similar conclusion was reached about this last point already in the late 15th century by Cristoforo Landino about Giotto's allegorical Seven Vices, the famous frescoes in the Arena Chapel in Padua (Keizer, 2012;Konečni, 2013a). And the same can be said about both Ghiberti's and Brunelleschi's brilliant bronze plaques The Sacrifice of Isaac, thought by many to signify the beginning of the Renaissance.…”

Section: Neuroaesthetic Worksupporting

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Emotion in Painting and Art Installations

Konečni¹

2015

The American Journal of Psychology

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Paintings are static 2- dimensional images with limited narrative means. on the basis of a critical analysis of the relevant laboratory scaling studies, museum studies, and neuroaesthetic work, the article reaches a negative conclusion about most paintings’ ability to engage sufficiently with general viewers’ associative- memory systems, so as to lead to identification and empathy, and induce fundamental psychobiological emotions. in contrast, designers of art installations can draw on subtle combinations of several classes of stimulus properties with psychological significance subsumable under the classical concept of the sublime (physical grandeur, rarity, an association with beauty and with biologically significant outcomes), so that some installations may induce the peak aesthetic emotional response, aesthetic awe—as defined in Aesthetic trinity theory (konečni, 2005, 2011), along with the states of being moved and physiological thrills. the approach also involves an analytical skepticism about emotivism, defined as a culturological proclivity for unnecessary insertion of emotion into accounts of mental life and behavior, especially in the arts. implications for the role of emotion theory in empirical aesthetics are examined.

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Section: Neuroaesthetic Worksupporting

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Emotion in Painting and Art Installations

Konečni¹

2015

The American Journal of Psychology

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“…Such art, in general, is incapable of convincingly telling naturalistic stories (or allegories) in rich detail that is necessary for viewers to create a network of mental associations to real-world emotioninducing events, especially in their own lives. Paintings' narration is neither broad, nor rich, nor deep enough 34. Many paintings may attempt to tell stories or allude to realworld or otherworldly events, but few stories, thus told, are able to induce genuine psychobiological emotional responses.Abstract art is, of course, even less likely, and significantly so, to be able to cause emotion.…”

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A Critique of Emotivism in Aesthetic Accounts of Visual Art

Konečni¹

2013

Philosophy Today

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Reflexiones teóricas de Leonardo da Vinci sobre la "fantasia"

Méndez¹

2013

Anales del IIE

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Este artículo ofrece un estudio panorámico sobre el tema de la fantasia en los textos teóricos de Leonardo da Vinci. Destaca, en primer término, la singularidad de sus concepciones sobre los “sentidos interiores” y su hipotética localización en el cerebro y, a partir del predominio de lo visual, el relieve que adquiere el senso comune y su latente identidad con la fantasia. Luego analiza la cualidad especular de ésta, su convergencia con el ingegno y sus funciones en el contexto del Para-gone de las artes, poniendo de relieve su cualidad como fuente de la inventio artística. Además, explora el sentido de la dimensión interior e “ideal” de la pintura aceptada por el artista y la orientación filosófica de su pensamiento. Finalmente, apunta las facetas de un “Leonardo fantástico” reflejadas tanto en las consideraciones de sus contemporáneos como en su propia obra y algunas prácticas que ilustran el dinamismo y la dimensión múltiple de la fantasia leonardesca.

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Leonardo and Allegory

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Emotion in Painting and Art Installations

Emotion in Painting and Art Installations

A Critique of Emotivism in Aesthetic Accounts of Visual Art

Reflexiones teóricas de Leonardo da Vinci sobre la "fantasia"

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