Exposition

Redundant Perception: An Artist's Enquiry (2017)

Christopher Hollins
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Living things often display redundant and unused appendages of physical characteristics that once served to give them an advantage in the struggle for life. Examples would be the flightless wings of penguins and ostriches, and the vestige of a tail in we humans; which is made of three small loosely fused bones called the coccyx. This is known as the ‘tail-bone’ because it is considered the remains of the full tail that our ape-like ancestors once possessed. It is also probable that our brains generate the remaining impulses from an older redundant power of perception that once gave our distant ancestors an ‘animal’ awareness of objects and events. This experience of mind now lies buried behind our modern day thought processes, and for any artist aware of this the implications are that the way we create art through intelligent learned ideas hides an experience of deeper natural form. A state of mind therefore exists that once allowed us to conceive of the world in a natural way, but artists have always created intelligently structured artificial images rather than the spontaneous intuitive results need to glimpse the instinctive insight. Art has always worked to suppress rather than reveal an original way of sensing sight, shape, sound, and movement, and it is this realisation that I believe was the motivation for challenging the established principles of art upheld by the founding pioneers of modernism.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsart theory, modern art, psychology of perception, primal sensations, Uncertainty and not knowing, art research, philosophy of mind, naive realism, direct realism
date14/09/2017
published24/12/2017
last modified24/12/2017
statuspublished
share statuspublic
licenseAll rights reserved
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/390669/390670
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/rc.390669
published inResearch Catalogue
external linkhttp://www.paintingbyinstinct.com


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copyrightChristopher John Hollins
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comments: 2 (last entry by Elisabeth Laasonen Belgrano - 25/10/2017 at 10:55)
Elisabeth Laasonen Belgrano 25/10/2017 at 10:54

The comment was deleted by Elisabeth Laasonen Belgrano on 25/10/2017 at 10:55.
Elisabeth Laasonen Belgrano 25/10/2017 at 10:55

I respond even if I have not read you whole essay. Only parts of it.

I am a singer. Making art that sees no inside or outside.  Art is myself-as-sound. Art in me is perhaps that ' experience of deeper natural form'.  Have you work with voices? Have you explored your art as voice?

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