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elleng

(131,102 posts) Fri Jan 19, 2018, 12:16 PM Jan 2018

A Deep Dive Into the Brain, Hand-Drawn by the Father of Neuroscience

The breakthrough drawings of Santiago
Ramón y Cajal are undeniable as art.

'It’s not often that you look at an exhibition with the help of the very apparatus that is its subject. But so it is with “The Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal” at the Grey Art Gallery at New York University, one of the most unusual, ravishing exhibitions of the season.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/18/arts/design/brain-neuroscience-santiago-ramon-y-cajal-grey-gallery.html?

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A Deep Dive Into the Brain, Hand-Drawn by the Father of Neuroscience (Original Post) elleng Jan 2018 OP

Thanks for posting this! WhiteTara Jan 2018 #1

It is a breathtaking zentrum Feb 2018 #2

WhiteTara

(29,722 posts)

1. Thanks for posting this!

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Fri Jan 19, 2018, 12:57 PM

Jan 2018

zentrum

(9,865 posts)

2. It is a breathtaking

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Tue Feb 13, 2018, 10:30 PM

Feb 2018

……show.

He apparently stared at the particular image through the telescope for hours and then stopped looking and drew what he had seen. It's as if he separated looking from seeing. Or could "see" his "looking" if you know what I mean.

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