Please accept our best wishes for the coming New Year! Today we have prepared some quotes of the Russian abstractionist Andrey Muntz for your attention.
Better, faster, more fun, more variety
A bucket of champaign on the dresser
Diversify as you can (Leodardo)
Whirlpool of events
Get away from the cliché, don’t literally repeat yourself, then it’s a journey into the unknown
Spanish staircase
An artist is like an alchemist, he must select his own soil, develop his own method of painting and discover something new in art
Golden domes of Moscow
Quarantine was easiest for artists to survive, because consciously or not, every true artist strives for self-isolation
Flying over the world
There are experts who compare realistic painting with the globe, and abstraction with the universe
Pushing the boundaries
For me, composition, color, and subject matter are almost irrelevant – what matters is capturing the passion that possessed the artist during the process of creating the work
Romeo and Jouliette
One of the main principles that I try to adhere to is that painting can be anything, just not boring
Organised chaos
The Italian philosopher Croce wrote that when a viewer looks at a work of art, a creative process takes place, and the more complex the painting, the more active this process is. In this sense, abstraction poses the most daring challenge to the viewer’s creative abilities
I love you
We love abstract art for its originality and unpredictability. Stay with us in 2025!
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Neuroscience and art may seem like separate fields, but they are increasingly intertwined, revealing fascinating insights into how our brains perceive and create art. Here’s a look at how these disciplines intersect:
The Brain’s Response to Art
Art triggers a complex interplay of emotions in the brain. Research shows that viewing art activates areas associated with reward, pleasure, and social interaction, explaining why we find art captivating.
Our brains analyze artistic elements like color, shape, composition, and storytelling. This process involves multiple brain regions, including those responsible for visual perception, attention, memory, and language.
The “beauty” we experience from art is a subjective response influenced by personal preferences, cultural context, and individual brain wiring. Neuroscience is exploring the biological mechanisms underlying these subjective judgments.
Art as a Tool for Brain Research
Art can be used to study specific cognitive functions, like attention, memory, and visual perception. For example, art therapy can help understand the cognitive processes involved in emotional regulation. Changes in artistic expression, such as alterations in drawing style or colour use, can be a sign of neurological disorders like Alzheimer’s disease. Art-based therapies are increasingly used to treat conditions like depression, anxiety, and autism, harnessing the power of creativity to promote healing and well-being.
The Neuroscience of Creativity
Research suggests that creativity involves a complex network of brain regions, including the default mode network, the salience network, and the executive control network. These networks work together to generate new ideas, explore possibilities, and evaluate outcomes. Role of dopamine and serotonin: These neurotransmitters play crucial roles in motivation, reward, and exploration, all of which are essential for creativity. Neuroscience highlights the role of imagination and play in fostering creativity. These activities allow us to explore new possibilities and think outside the box.
Artistic Expression and Brain Health
Engaging in art can help individuals cope with stress, anxiety, and trauma. The act of creating art can be a form of self-expression and emotional regulation. Creating and appreciating art can stimulate cognitive function, improving memory, attention, and problem-solving skills. Art can foster connection and shared experiences, promoting social interaction and a sense of community.
The Future of Neuroscience and Art
Brain-computer interfaces: These technologies could potentially allow people to create art directly with their thoughts. Neuroscience insights could be used to tailor art experiences to individual preferences and brain responses. Art-based therapies and interventions could become more sophisticated and effective in treating a wide range of mental health conditions.
The intersection of neuroscience and art offers exciting opportunities for understanding the human brain, enhancing creative expression, and improving human well-being.
Dmitry Shturm (DESTURM) is well known as a digital artist working with AR and NFT technologies.
In 2015 he studied design and branding in Helsinki, Finland, and got acquainted with art community.
In 2016 he implemented AI in the sphere of art – “Neuro Shturm” and made his first attempts in digital graphics.
In the next years he studied and made a lot of art works, and also took part in a number of events which brought him fame among the digital art community.
Dmitry creates customised artworks for private and commercial markets.
An interesting fact from his biography is that he made and presented his artwork to the frontman of Rammstein Till Lindemann.
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AR in painting allows artists and viewers to interact with works of art using technical means such as smartphones, tablets or special glasses. Here’s how it works: using special mobile applications, the device’s cameras scan the work of art, and then an augmented layer of information or interactive elements appear on the device’s screen that complement the original painting. Here are some of Dmitry’s works with AR…
Mick Jagger is like Picasso, only in music. It doesn’t end. To this person aging is contraindicated. The group’s repertoire doesn’t change much, but every time Mick takes the stage with such enthusiasm as if this is his first and last concert. Every yogi would dream of living like this.
Singing letters of tangerine, carton, pads, markers, stickers, 90×160 cm
Letters do not always live in words and sentences. Sometimes they need to be given freedom, to create air space for soaring. Each letter has its own sound and meaning-forming power.
Pushkin – Farewell to the sea, oil on canvas, stickers, 115×145 cm
This complex composition is assembled from a mirror image of Rembrandt’s “Night Watch”, Aivazovsky’s work “Pushkin, Farewell to the Sea” (where Repin painted the figure of Pushkin), complemented by raised stickers (sailboats, pirate flags, cute creatures). I wanted to combine Pushkin’s dramatic works with fairy tales, directing them into the white squares of Malevich.
Little yellow men
While I was working on the painting < Arsen. L. plays the piano for V. Horowitz >, listened to a lot of music performed by Horowitz.
Chopin’s polonaises or Scriabin’s symphonies filled this structurally complex work with energy. It took a lot of energy and attention to create it. But from time to time on Yandex.Music Horowitz played something very tender from Schumann, or from the same Chopin, which transported me to another world.
Then I switched over and created these little yellow men so that I could rest a little and continue working on Horowitz.
Having decided to take a new step in the beginning of the new year, we are ready to consider new offline exhibitions and new painters who wish to progress in their art career. In the year of 2023 we inplemented the trend “Business & Art” which means that true art can well exist in the atmosphere of ascetic offices and give it a certain feeling of comfort and involvement. In the below show we wish to embed you in a special emotional maelstrom …
Faith, Love, Hope by Anatoly MorogayNature Morte Festive by Anrey MuntzForest lake by Andrey MuntzDynamic balance by Andrey MuntzGlorious Night by Karina MosserMoon river by Karina MosserDictumfactum by Artem KasimovMelior by Artem KasimovLet it be by Artem KasimovSpring is coming by Anatoly MorogayInspiration by Anatoly Morogay
Today we are pleased to present a painting of Andrey Muntz, called “Bunch of flowers” which is available for sale.
“This picture was painted in 2009 and represents an attempt to combine abstract and realistic forms. So it turned out as a half-abstract bunch of flowers, the size is 120х90 cm which is like enlarged A3 sheet, one of my favourite sizes because I am an architect and I am used to drawing on A3. Ackwardly they do not sell canvas of this size in shops but I stretch the canvas myself… There’s a lot of white and fair colours which looks festive, I love white and like a regular tennis player I insist on using it in painture.”
Apparently we often get confused by our perception of certain material objects so the aim of this series of articles is to explain a painting from the artist’s point of view.
Here we go…
Casanova’s breakfast, Andrey Muntz
The painting is called “Casanova’s breakfast”, it was created in 1995 by a famous Russian painter and architect Andrey Muntz.
It was one of my first paintings and I was scared then to paint in bright colors. Some time ago my friend painter from Israel, looking at my brighter paintings said “Ok, I see you had never attended any Art school!” Say, I am not against education, having being myself a teacher in the Architectural institute for over 46 years… And yes, some of my students are afraid of using free style, though we remember Matisse, who used clear colors without fear. The painting is also interesting as you can see Meganom on the background, I spent some years in Sudak and its suburbs…
During the 1960s and 1970s the western world experienced a major cultural change. It is usually described as a move from Modernism to Post-modernism. So what do we mean by Modernism and Post-modernism and what do we mean by a discipline? Such words have been described in many ways, so we can check out the descriptions of these and other words in the 1993 edition of The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (SOED).
Abstraction and abstract art
Abstraction: ‘the act of taking away’. Abstract art: ‘art free representational qualities’. Here we need to make a distinction. On the one hand there is art that abstracts from nature but retains features of nature or objects; on the other hand there is abstraction that makes no use of natural objects, i.e. non-figural abstraction.
Art
From Latin ‘ars, artis’, from a root meaning ‘put together, join, fit’, ‘skill as the result of knowledge and practice’.
Aristotle wrote in his Ethics:
‘Art is nothing more than a productive quality exercised in combination with true reason. The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how to bring into existence something which is capable of having such an existence and has its efficient cause in the maker and not in itself. This condition must be present, besause the arts are not concerned with things that come into existence from necessity or according to nature’.
We can observe art ‘in the special sense’ described by SOED as follows:
‘The application of skill according to aesthetic principles, especially in the production of visible works of imagination, imitation or design (paintings, sculpture, architecture, etc.); skilful execution of workmanship as an object in itself; the cultivation of the production of aesthetic objects in its principles, practices and results.’
Avant-garde
‘The pioneering of innovative writers, artists, etc. in a particular period’ (SOED). It originally meant the vanguard of an army and did not emerge in its present form until the early 20th century.
Contemporary
The word ‘contemporary’ is derived ultimately from medieval Latin: contemporarius, which, in its turn, derives from classical Latin contemporaneous; ‘belonging to the same time, existing together in time, belonging to the same period’. These meanings both emerged in English in the 17th century and remain in current use today.
More or less seriously, I started doing graphics in 1989. There were several reasons for this. First, genetic: my grandfather, Oskar Rudolfovich Muntz and my father, Vladimir Oskarovich, were architects, my father’s sister was Natalya Oskarovna, my aunt was a book graphic artist. On the maternal side, on the Armenian side, there was also the famous artist Grigory Shiltyan, who lived all his life in Italy. (A large exhibition of his works was held in 1983 in the central halls of the Pushkin Museum). In addition, my sister Lena, a sculptor, has always painted and paints beautifully, and my sister Olya was a monumental artist.
At the age of five, not knowing anything about abstract art yet, having drawn some scribbles, I thought that this could be an interesting occupation. Apparently, I always had a craving for free improvisation, since I was seized by endless longing and sadness when, at the age of ten, I was sent to an art circle at the house of architects, where I had to draw dull teapots. I only managed to hold out for two lessons. Tennis seemed to me much more interesting. True, now the parallel between graphics, painting and tennis seems to me quite obvious. In the first case, the artist freely swings his brush, and in the second case, he freely waves the racket.
“Diversify as much as you can” – these words of Leonardo da Vinci, according to some art historians, can serve as a motto for the entire Renaissance. And in my work, due to my abilities, I try to follow this commandment. So, in addition to the etched stroke, I mastered the reserve (when sugar is added to the ink, I will omit the details so as not to tire the reader). Then I moved on to dry point, monotype, unique graphics and, finally, to painting, in which I also try to experiment with different techniques, canvases, soils and surfaces. In general, I believe that a real artist should have a lifelong experiment.
Recently I have been simultaneously engaged in graphics and painting. First of all, it’s more interesting, secondly, one thing helps the other, and thirdly, the border is, as always, blurred, because graphics can be pictorial, and painting, on the contrary, is graphic.
And one more observation related to my first profession. An architect designs buildings, putting his soul, heart and time into the process, but as a result, even the most famous architects, even Koolhaas’s level, ninety percent of projects are not implemented or are being implemented (especially in our conditions) with strong deviations from the project. An artist, on the other hand, in one or several days creates a picture that may not be liked by anyone, which may never be sold, but it exists, and exists as the author created it.
If we talk about graphics and painting, it is believed that there are much more fans of painting, since graphics require a more prepared viewer.
