The Francisco Goya art piece I chose was Por que? (sic) [Why?] because it evoked the most emotion in me. Throughout the exhibit, there were many jarring pieces of art. Because Goya was living in a time of the Spanish and French war, he saw a lot of horrors and expressed them through his art. Por que? (sic) [Why?] was a part of a line of works that were not published until after he had died, assuming these pieces would have upset the public. The history behind these pieces, along with the disturbance of the topics, is enough to arouse intense emotion in most people. Art has a way of making people love it, despise it, or stare at it for hours. This phenomenon of people spending millions of dollars to have a painting in their house can actually
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Disgust was the first emotion I remember feeling in response to Goya’s Por Que? piece. When the Art Historian explained the history of the war behind the pieces, my disgust only increased. Emotions, Aggression, and Stress explains that, “Disgust has been studied only in humans, where fMRI suggests that a region called the insula and the nearby putamen (part of the basal ganglia), not the amygdala are activated when we see or hear someone expressing disgust” (471). Later on in the text they say, “There is no one-to-one correspondence between an emotion and a brain region; that is, each emotion involves activity of more than one brain region, and some brain regions are involved in more than one emotion” (471). This has been proved in studies where they show people pictures of stimulating photos of disgusting nature, monitoring on the MRI screen what parts of the brain “light up.” This picture is compared to a control picture of the person not feeling disgusted. The difference in the areas is how strongly those areas are connected to the feeling of disgust. This sort of experiment has been done for an array of differing emotions. When I felt disgusted looking at the artwork and then later hearing the background story behind the piece, those regions of my brain were helping produce that
Disgust was the first emotion I remember feeling in response to Goya’s Por Que? piece. When the Art Historian explained the history of the war behind the pieces, my disgust only increased. Emotions, Aggression, and Stress explains that, “Disgust has been studied only in humans, where fMRI suggests that a region called the insula and the nearby putamen (part of the basal ganglia), not the amygdala are activated when we see or hear someone expressing disgust” (471). Later on in the text they say, “There is no one-to-one correspondence between an emotion and a brain region; that is, each emotion involves activity of more than one brain region, and some brain regions are involved in more than one emotion” (471). This has been proved in studies where they show people pictures of stimulating photos of disgusting nature, monitoring on the MRI screen what parts of the brain “light up.” This picture is compared to a control picture of the person not feeling disgusted. The difference in the areas is how strongly those areas are connected to the feeling of disgust. This sort of experiment has been done for an array of differing emotions. When I felt disgusted looking at the artwork and then later hearing the background story behind the piece, those regions of my brain were helping produce that