Channel 4: What Makes a Masterpiece?

By Geoff Taylor -

What Makes a Masterpiece?

January 2012, Channel 4, Science challenges art

Synopsis

Matthew Cain presents a three-part series exploring the world of art through ’neuro-aesthetics’, a field of scientific research that looks at how the brain processes art. In the third episode, Cain explores the world of visual art. The experiments throw up some surprising results about what we respond most strongly to, even casting Brit Art "enfant terrible" (terrible child) Damien Hirst in a different light.

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