{"id":3039,"date":"2011-05-18T09:03:05","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T13:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2011\/05\/no-words-for-2\/"},"modified":"2011-05-18T09:03:05","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T13:03:05","slug":"no-words-for-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2011\/05\/no-words-for-2\/","title":{"rendered":"No Words For"},"content":{"rendered":"

We've written previously about the notion of art's immediate effect on the viewer (or listener) as one that precedes intellectual apprehension — we "feel" it before we can describe it.<\/p>\n

Now there is a growing scientific consensus<\/a> that this precognitive response is a real one, triggered by the release of so-called "feel-good" chemicals in the brain like dopamine \u2013 not unlike the feelings one has towards a loved one.<\/p>\n

That's not to say that Art as a category of human endeavor is not able to accommodate other ways of apprehending, for example the more intellectual understanding required of a conceptual artwork.  But it's probably not a stretch to suggest that the genesis of art was the desire to express oneself in a different way.<\/p>\n

I found I could say things with color and shape that I couldn't say any other way \u2013 things I had no words for.<\/em>
                                                                                                                             Georgia O'Keefe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We've written previously about the notion of art's immediate effect on the viewer (or listener) as one that precedes intellectual apprehension — we "feel" it before we can describe it. Now there is a growing scientific consensus that this precognitive response is a real one, triggered by the release of so-called "feel-good" chemicals in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-nature","category-new-paltz-ny","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}