claude monet and rené magritte: thought rendered visible per aage brandt 1, mark turner 2, angelina...
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Claude Monet and René Magritte: Thought Rendered Visible Per Aage Brandt1, Mark Turner2, Angelina Manieri3
Claude Monet and René Magritte: Thought Rendered Visible Per Aage Brandt1, Mark Turner2, Angelina Manieri3
IntroductionIntroduction
Can art be understood in terms of cognitive processes?
Can mental spaces account for meaning in painting?
Can art be understood in terms of cognitive processes?
Can mental spaces account for meaning in painting?
Mental Spaces can blend and form compositions that create new conceptual and semiotic networks.
Mental Spaces can blend and form compositions that create new conceptual and semiotic networks.
Rene Magritte, The Explanation, 1952, private collection Claude Monet, Still Life with Flowers and Fruit, 1896, Getty Museum of Art
Rene Magritte, The Explanation, 1952, private collection Claude Monet, Still Life with Flowers and Fruit, 1896, Getty Museum of Art
ModelsModels
Rene Magritte, Attempting the Impossible,1928,private collection Claude Monet, The Seine at Giverny, Morning Mists, 1897, North Carolina Art Museum Claude Monet, The Water-Lily Pond (The Clouds),1903, private collection
Rene Magritte, Attempting the Impossible,1928,private collection Claude Monet, The Seine at Giverny, Morning Mists, 1897, North Carolina Art Museum Claude Monet, The Water-Lily Pond (The Clouds),1903, private collection
Rene Magritte, Wonders of Nature, 1953, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Claude Monet, Impression, Sunrise, 1872, Musée Marmottan, Paris Rene Magritte, Wonders of Nature, 1953, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Claude Monet, Impression, Sunrise, 1872, Musée Marmottan, Paris
René Magritte, The Human Condition, 1944, Cleveland Museum of Art Claude Monet, The Red Kerchief: Portrait of Mrs. Monet, 1868 Claude Monet, Low Tide at Pourville, near Dieppe, 1882, Cleveland Museum of Art
René Magritte, The Human Condition, 1944, Cleveland Museum of Art Claude Monet, The Red Kerchief: Portrait of Mrs. Monet, 1868 Claude Monet, Low Tide at Pourville, near Dieppe, 1882, Cleveland Museum of Art
ConclusionConclusion
These models show how visual art makes sense by blending contents and by signifying them through the iconic sign (the painting itself).
These models show how visual art makes sense by blending contents and by signifying them through the iconic sign (the painting itself).
Rene Magritte and Claude Monet both “attempt the impossible”---- painting air, light, or painting paradoxical ideas.
Rene Magritte and Claude Monet both “attempt the impossible”---- painting air, light, or painting paradoxical ideas.
Museum spaces often offer restricted exposure of the interplay with contexts such as the media (Magritte) and the open exteriors (Monet). Base spaces are therefore part of the descriptions of art. References: Brandt, Aage Per, Spaces, Domains, and Meaning Essays in Cognitive Semiotics, 2004. The Artful Mind : cognitive science and the riddle of human creativity, ed. Mark Turner, Oxford; New York, 2006.
Acknowledgments: 1Director of the Center of Cognition and Culture, Department Cognitive Science, Case Western Reserve University 2Chair Department of Cognitive Science, Case Western Reserve University 3Departments of Art History and Cognitive Science, Case Western Reserve University I would also like to thank the Cleveland Museum of Art, Case Western Reserve University, Cognitive Science and Art History Departments.
Museum spaces often offer restricted exposure of the interplay with contexts such as the media (Magritte) and the open exteriors (Monet). Base spaces are therefore part of the descriptions of art. References: Brandt, Aage Per, Spaces, Domains, and Meaning Essays in Cognitive Semiotics, 2004. The Artful Mind : cognitive science and the riddle of human creativity, ed. Mark Turner, Oxford; New York, 2006.
Acknowledgments: 1Director of the Center of Cognition and Culture, Department Cognitive Science, Case Western Reserve University 2Chair Department of Cognitive Science, Case Western Reserve University 3Departments of Art History and Cognitive Science, Case Western Reserve University I would also like to thank the Cleveland Museum of Art, Case Western Reserve University, Cognitive Science and Art History Departments.
Representation=Reality
Reference SpaceBase Space Presentation Space
Blended Space
ObserverPainting
Painter & 2-D:StrokesColorslines
3-DMotifSurfacescontours
Strokes =motif…(seeing=touching)
Reference SpaceBase Space Presentation Space
Blended Space
ObserverPainting
Painter & 2-D:StrokesColorslines
3-DMotifSurfacescontours
Strokes =motif…(seeing=touching)
Painter, canvas ,unfinished female form
Painter’s model andreal woman in studio
Unfinished model with painter
Signifier=Signified Signifier is a Sign of Signified
Reference SpaceBase Space Presentation Space
Blended Space
ObserverPainting Painter & 2-D
StrokesColorslines
3-DMotifSurfacescontours
Strokes =motif…(seeing=touching)
Reference SpaceBase Space
Presentation Space
Blended Space
ObserverPainting
Painter & 2-D:StrokesColorslines
MentalLandscape
Landscape
3-DMotifSurfacescontours
Strokes =motif…(seeing=touching)
CARROT BOTTLE
CarrotBottle
C ? BC = B
Mental Balls Balcony
Still life
Conceptual Network
Semiotic Network
Reference SpaceBase Space Presentation Space
Blended Space
ObserverPainting Painter & 2-D
StrokesColorslines
Interior=exteriorExterior=interior
3-DMotifSurfacescontours
Strokes =motif…(seeing=touching)
Figure = ground
Cleveland Museum of Art Giverny Wing
Cleveland Museum of Art Monet Exhibition
Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris