My new video for this week. Continuing last week’s idea, we look at the roots of two types of creativity: The logical left brain and irrational right brain. This time, we move on from painting and look at examples of those two poles in writing and architecture.
Author: thesearchforbeauty
Video: The Right & Left Brain In Art – the first in a new video series
Hello everyone! I’m beginning a new, open-ended video series. With these videos, I hope to enlighten and inspire through the exploration of ideas; ideas that manifest themselves in art, culture, and our everyday lives. I want to share with you the things that have sparked my own imagination, with the hope that you’ll be inspired too.
In this first video, I explore both the origin of the idea that the right brain and left Brain influence creativity in different ways, and how that idea has manifested itself in the work of various artists throughout history.
Last in the series from Provence this spring.
Road into Caromb
10″ x 12″, oil on panel
E8: the Most Beautiful Structure in Mathematics
A two minute animation of a potential Theory of Everything. The first 30 seconds explains a few terms and then the structure, the E8 Lie group, “what many consider the most beautiful structure in mathematics”, starts to rotate. Maybe in 8 dimensions, but I’m not sure. It’s striking.
Scientists often discover ideas or theories are true because of their elegance and beauty. Currently the two major theories of physics, relativity and quantum mechanics won’t gel.
Garrett Lisi may have advanced a possible resolution using the E8 Lie group.He assembled the known elementary particles like quarks and leptons within the E8 structure and then using the elegance of the structure added particles that as yet did not fit into any one holistic form. That was in 2007. He say he still has work to do on the theory but he’s optimistic.
The other major theory currently trying to unity all the elementary particles and forces of nature is string theory. It however has become more complex than what it is trying to explain. That is not a good sign of either beauty, or probably truth.
Orchards at the End of the Road
10″ x 12″, Oil on Panel
Another painting from the series I did plein air this spring in Provence, France.
Part 6 of The Search For Beauty Video Series – Revelation
Here’s part 6, the final part of my video series. I hope you’ve enjoyed it.
In this episode, I examine the word ‘revelation.’
You can find the rest of the series on my Vimeo page: vimeo.com/ianrobertsartist
Thanks for watching!
Part 5 of The Search For Beauty Video Series – Perception
Here’s part five of The Search For Beauty
In this episode, I examine the word ‘perception.’
You can find the rest of the series on my Vimeo page: vimeo.com/ianrobertsartist
Apricots and Wine
A plein air painting from last spring in Provence
8″ x 10″, oil on panel
“Beauty! Where shall one begin on a subject so vast, one that has stirred so many celebrated writers? What a theme! An endless one, and let it be said in passing, just such questions as these are the most interesting, because with them, the last word is never said and because everyone can have a different opinion.”
—Eugene Delacroix
Part 4 of The Search Beauty Video Series – Muse
Here’s part four of my video series, ‘The Search For Beauty.’
In this episode, I examine the history and meaning of the word ‘muse.’
You can find the rest of the series on my vimeo page: vimeo.com/ianrobertsartist
The Search for Beauty 