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concept:vulnerability-in-art-makingVulnerability in Art-Making
The quality of being too exposed, too close to the bone, that characterizes the best student work and explains why makers often hide their finest creations.
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- Vache Accroupie by Paul Gauguin (1900)associated_withPainting of a crouching cow, black and white with golden green around its head; described by Christie's as a 'minor Gauguin' but held by Alexander to be more innocent and greater than Gauguin's knowing works.
- Veronica's Blue Chair Paintingassociated_withA simple gouache sketch on torn paper of a pale sky-blue chair against an ocher-yellow background; nearly heart-stopping quality that the student was initially ashamed to show.
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- The childlike, genuine human part of oneself needed to create true life.
- Inherent unreliability of biological substrate due to mutation, aging, cancer, parasites; proposed as driver of adaptive cognitive architecture.
- Alexander's term for the aspect of the self that becomes mobilized and connected to the world through personal feeling and living structure
- Artifacts designed to bring about process-aesthetic experiences; primary aesthetic properties emerge in the enactor's activity.
- Art based on ideas and concepts, which Alexander argues cannot attain life because it contradicts unfolding from the whole.