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ARTVOICE ONLINE – greeting Art Curator

Olga Bogdan

Today we are greeting…

Art Curator Olga Bogdan

Olga Bogdan is a project manager in the field of interior decoration. Her task is to help clients create interiors that perfectly match their business goals or personal needs.

I believe that each interior is not just a space, but a reflection of the personality and lifestyle of its owner. One of the key tools in this personalization is art.

Olga’s acquaintance with the world of art began very early. From birth, she was surrounded by creativity: her grandfather was a successful commercial artist.

I still remember how his studio smelled of oil paints, how the light softly fell on the canvases, and how each piece breathed life. These memories remained in my heart forever, and I realized that it was possible to “fall in love” with a piece of art.

Several of Olga’s grandfather’s paintings are carefully stored in her apartment – they are not just decoration, but a part of her soul. In addition, one of Olga’s father’s friends was the chief architect of their small southern town of Mineralnye Vody. It was him who brought her to preparatory classes for the architectural institute, where she enthusiastically studied classical pencil drawing together with other children.

Although my path to architecture did not work out, the love for creating sketches and experimenting with new techniques remained with me. I continue to look for beauty in the world around me and strive to help other people find exactly the piece of art that will be important and necessary for them at the moment. Each new collaboration for me is an opportunity to create a unique world that will inspire and delight.

Olga is also a great interior artist!

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E-mail: curator@artvoice.online

Tel.: +7 910 396 97 75

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Neuroscience & AI

Neuroscience & Art

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.

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Art story

Modern art – on words

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.

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Art story

Minimalism – less is more

The key idea of minimalism is in the simplicity of colour and forms.

In 1957 Ives Klein exhibited 11 monochromatic paintings in his favourite blue colour. IKB – International Klein Blue became an opposal to the black square of Malevich. He says other colours produce a lot of associations and only the blue reflects the most abstract things in the world – the sky and the sea.

Ives Klein, IKB

Contemporary followers of minimalism try to observe the principle “less is more”. Minimalism has become popular both in painting and interior design.

“Awaiting change”, Karina Mosser
“Between Heaven and Earth”, Karina Mosser
“Beyond the darkness”, Karina Mosser
“Burning sky”, Karina Mosser
“Earth restored”, Karina Mosser
“Hope floats”, Karina Mosser
“In the beginning”, Karina Mosser
“Moonlight”, Karina Mosser
“Perfection in blue”, Karina Mosser
“Night glow”, Karina Mosser
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Avant-garde. Bold, innovative, expressive, experimental

The avant-garde as a phenomenon appeared in all spheres of art around the 1910s. You can name its main names and directions, but it is almost impossible to formulate common features. This is a whole system of styles, concepts, theories, languages, schools that penetrate each other.

Avant-garde in the visual arts can be understood as an experiment – with a concept, color, form. The Russian avant-garde in painting grew, of course, from Western painting trends: impressionism, post-impressionism and symbolism. The avant-garde movement did not form a single style, not a single school included the word “avant-garde” in its name, art critics did not use this term.

Wassily Kandinsky

Expressionism

This movement, which emerged in 1905-1909, did not have a clear, definite program, proclaimed subjective sensations and subconscious impulses as the basis of artistic creativity. The artist translates his own emotions through his paintings.

“I love you”, Andrey Muntz
“Heaven inhabitant”, Andrey Muntz

Cubism

Cubism is an avant-garde trend in the visual arts, primarily in painting, which originated at the beginning of the 20th century and is characterized by the use of emphatically geometrized conventional forms, the desire to “split” real objects into stereometric primitives.

“Pink cubic roses”, Vera Makarova
“A woman on a green sofa”, Vera Makarova

Suprematism

The direction in abstract painting, which consists in a combination of the simplest colored geometric shapes (square, circle, triangle) and volumetric forms superimposed on a plane.

“Test 27”, Victor Pavlovsky
“Mittelspiel”, Victor Pavlovsky

How to understand abstract art?

The key idea in understanding abstract art is in the approach itself. Do not try to distinct objects or guess what the artist wanted to say by the painting. Just look for some time and refer to your emotions!

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Energy abstraction

Meet Maxim Goncharenko – an abstract artist, in the past, the author of the largest in Europe museum of 3D paintings “Imaginarium” (Moscow).

In July 2020, Maxim took up a brush and decided that he would become a great artist! A month of training flew by in one breath …

In August Maxim decides to check the demand for his works and exhibits them in the center of Moscow on the Arbat street.

In September 2020, Maxim paints already in his workshop and presents his works at an exhibition in one of the shopping centers of St. Petersburg, in December of the same year he opens his own gallery in Moscow.

On the 18th of January 2021, the tumultuous creative activity of a young talented abstract artist was interrupted by a sudden sharp attack, diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Maxim goes to the hospital, lies in bed for a month and practically cannot walk, thus he gets a disability.

In March 2021, Maxim gets up and starts painting, and thanks to this, he moves! He is back to life: he paints, passing through his creations the energies of good, joy, healing … The disease revealed to Maxim the value of every second of life, because at any moment an exacerbation can occur, which can lead to paralysis of motor functions. Maxim says: “I am grateful to this disease, because now I’m painting every picture as the last …”