Art world links which caught my eye…
Pigeons Can Recognize Whether Art is For the Birds
Turns out pigeons may be smarter than the average art world elitist. Pigeons can objectively recognize beauty.
This ubiquitious urban bird can be taught to recognize artistic merit, according to an 2009 experiment.
“Parents may praise their children’s artwork as if each piece were a da Vinci or a Rembrandt – but pigeons, new research suggests, are somewhat more discerning.
“Several birds have successfully learned to tell the difference between well-executed and crude paintings – all created by 9 to 11-year-olds at a Tokyo elementary school.
“No, the city hasn’t devised a plot to simultaneously rid its streets of pigeons and employ art teachers that work for peanuts – or, rather, grain. Instead, the experiments were set up to see if other animals, provided with enough training, could grasp the human concept of beauty, says Shigeru Watanabe, a psychologist at Keio University in Tokyo, who led the study.”
Read the Full Article Here: NEW SCIENTIST – Pigeons Make the Grade at Art Appreciation
Special Thanks to my wife Michele Bledsoe for the pigeon image!
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