Event 4 | The Brain + Art with Mark Cohen | Livier Monarrez

 In this event, The Brain + Art, I learned from Mark Cohen about how the disciplines of art and science intertwine. Cohen is an entrepreneur, scientist, and inventor who teaches at UCLA. In the event, he speaks of interesting concepts including how neuroscience has made way for us to understand art to the next level through which there are brain mechanisms that lead us to take in sensory information differently. These mechanisms have been evolutionarily adaptive as we perceive the world in a meaningful way. Cohen’s paintings, like the one below, show how our brain mechanisms allow us to be able to fill in the lines which are adaptive as our brain can fill in the gaps with the long grass as it resembles the black stripe patterns of a tiger. 

Screenshot from Mark Cohen The Brain + Art


Additionally, these paintings from Pablo Picasso like the one below show a woman sleeping. This artwork is quite different from regular paintings as your brain is able to allow you to perceive the face like a figure which is part of the human brain mechanisms. The painting is made with line art and minimal color. We are able to find meaning in these art pieces as our perceptual fluency of the lines coming together creates a form of a woman sleeping.


Screenshot from Mark Cohen The Brain + Art


In the image below we can see how this event relates to our course which illustrates how we can make understand this optical illusion through neuroscience. Our scientific understanding of visual perception and the ambiguity of these illusions enhance artists’ paintings to be taken to the next level where the viewer can appreciate their artwork more. I definitely recommend this event for others to participate in the future as it gives insight to the creative ways art and science have come together to give us a new perspective on neuroscience as a dependent discipline on art.


Screenshot from Mark Cohen The Brain + Art


Cohen, Mark. "DESMA 9: THE BRAIN + ART With Mark Cohen". Vimeo, 2022, https://vimeo.com/713795455. 


Varela, Francisco J., et al. The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience. United States, MIT Press, 1992.

Wright, Anthony. "Limbic System: Amygdala (Section 4, Chapter 6) Neuroscience Online: An Electronic Textbook For The Neurosciences | Department Of Neurobiology And Anatomy - The University Of Texas Medical School At Houston". Nba.Uth.Tmc.Edu, 2020, https://nba.uth.tmc.edu/neuroscience/m/s4/chapter06.html.


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