Posts from December 2015.
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The Art of the Brick exhibit of Lego art by former lawyer Nathan Sawaya is drawing big crowds at Cincinnati's Museum Center. As much as the artwork, I enjoyed seeing the kids (and my grandson) relate to a toy-medium-in-art. Legos become like other art-creating material, whether pigment, digital ...
In 1881 editorial cartoonist Thomas Nast helped create the image of Santa Claus with this illustration, now an icon of popular imagery re-fashioned and re-created into many different images of Santa:

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Nast was the most politically influential cartoonist of the 19th century, lambasting New York's  ...

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How does the brain decide what visual images it likes or not? What regions of the brain are activated by making or viewing art? How is the brain persuaded that one image is appealing and the other less so? Recent advances by researchers imaging the brain while viewing and making visual imagery are beginning ...

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