Dear colleagues, Maybe the social & market aspects of art are inevitable outcomes, given the curious role it plays in human life. It is similar to what happens with science itself ---from an aloof "nec-otium" activity in its historical origins to the R&D +i trite business of today. I would not enter in those social aspects right now, rather an anecdote on "movement" may be interesting:
It is amazing how much of the life of a child is centered in challenging and exciting the system of balance&equilibrium (the "sixth sense"): crawling, climbing, cycling, rolling, spinning, jumping, skipping, skying, surfing,... schoolyards are the usual scenario for most of these exciting activities. No doubt that some of the balance fun persists in adulthood: amusement parks, tennis, soccer, ping pong, tai chi, yoga... Evolutionarily, this ontogenetic process of looking for exaggerated balance system excitations is rather anomalous in its length and intensity (to my info). The point is that the crave to explore every aspect of movement and balance in the physical environment of the child is gradually displaced toward the mental realm in the adult. Using the same brain & cerebellum system machineries "the movement of the body" becomes the "movement of thoughts and percepts" (McCredie, 2007). And here it is the bold question: does the child fascination for those exploratory-creative physical "disciplines" (crawling, climbing, spinning, etc.) become redirected so to be the basis of the adult fascination for the exploration of mental movements in painting, sculpting, dancing, singing, etc.? best Pedro _______________________________________________ fis mailing list fis@listas.unizar.es https://webmail.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis
