Artful imaging of the brain. From logo to metaphor, about Michelangelo and Kiefer.
Michelangelo has painted the fresco 'Creation of Adam' for the Sistine Chapel. Recently it was discovered that he had an outline of the brain concealed in Gods cloud. As a renaissance artist he was not supposed to believe that the brain is the seat of the soul. Only when the concept of structure and function of the central nervous system had developed, artistic presentation of the brain did become possible. The conceptual painter Kiefer, who is possessed by Germany's recent and past history, expressed his apprehension using the philosopher Heidegger and his writings as symbol and a naked brain as metaphor.
Lakke
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Dept. of Neurology State University Groningen Groningen, The Netherlands.
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