ART 348 The Neuroscience of Art Perception Liberal Arts Program Summer 2016 June 6-Week 2 Course - Aix-en-Provence

This new course integrates our mechanistic understanding of the visual system with the artistic devices employed throughout history focusing on examples gleaned from French Art including cave paintings from Lascaux, medieval stained glass, and the work of Ingres, Seurat, Monet, Rouault, Picasso and Matisse. A novel aspect of this course will be a studio component that makes art utilizing neural principles discussed in the course. This is an extreme cross-disciplinary course. It is hoped that students who are art majors would develop a working knowledge of how to enhance their art by tapping into how the visual system works while science majors would gain some studio art skills and an appreciation of art using scientific principles to which they are accustomed.