ARTISTS THAT LOOK AT THE DIFFERENT LAYERS OF EXISTENCE
Alex Grey is an artist that is famous for creating works which integrate the various layers of the human body into one picture. He produces works that explore the human body and it's various modes of existence, the figures he depicts map out our material physical body, our internal life forces that drive us and the spiritual body that surrounds us. His work often explore experiences such as love, pain, lust, joy and confusion and attempts to depict the unity or distance felt in our mind, body and soul during these events (Larsen, 2001). His work has been described as a quest "towards an integrative art that visually unites the body, mind, soul and spirit and helps heal the alienation and fragmentation felt between the individual and the world"(Larsen, 2001, p.2). His work look beyond the traditional depictions of what it means to have a body and chooses to look at the functions and underlying forces that drive us and impact our behaviors. The works all incorporate the emotional, spiritual and biological forces that are constantly impacting the way we live (Grey, n.d.). Arguably Alex Grey could be seen as an artist that depicts an un-fragmented body as he acknowledges and tries to represent the body …show more content…
Electrophysiological technologies record the electrical activity of neurons within the brains and is able to reveal information about how our brain works on both a single cell and network level (Kazakou as cited in Scientists and Artists in Collaboration for A Nervous Encounter, 2012, p.11). As a response to these discoveries Kazakou decided to create artworks that represent the voltages that occur in our brain interested in how these cellular impulses influence our "emotions and energies as well as our fire for knowledge and human understanding" (Kazakou,
Alex Grey is an artist that is famous for creating works which integrate the various layers of the human body into one picture. He produces works that explore the human body and it's various modes of existence, the figures he depicts map out our material physical body, our internal life forces that drive us and the spiritual body that surrounds us. His work often explore experiences such as love, pain, lust, joy and confusion and attempts to depict the unity or distance felt in our mind, body and soul during these events (Larsen, 2001). His work has been described as a quest "towards an integrative art that visually unites the body, mind, soul and spirit and helps heal the alienation and fragmentation felt between the individual and the world"(Larsen, 2001, p.2). His work look beyond the traditional depictions of what it means to have a body and chooses to look at the functions and underlying forces that drive us and impact our behaviors. The works all incorporate the emotional, spiritual and biological forces that are constantly impacting the way we live (Grey, n.d.). Arguably Alex Grey could be seen as an artist that depicts an un-fragmented body as he acknowledges and tries to represent the body …show more content…
Electrophysiological technologies record the electrical activity of neurons within the brains and is able to reveal information about how our brain works on both a single cell and network level (Kazakou as cited in Scientists and Artists in Collaboration for A Nervous Encounter, 2012, p.11). As a response to these discoveries Kazakou decided to create artworks that represent the voltages that occur in our brain interested in how these cellular impulses influence our "emotions and energies as well as our fire for knowledge and human understanding" (Kazakou,