The Evolution of a Series

As I continue to read Dutton's book, The Art Instinct, I get side-tracked by tangential thoughts that I want to pursue. At the end of only the first paragraph in Chapter 3, entitled Art and Natural Selection, I found myself spinning-off again when I read: the development of species by a process of random mutation and selective rentention, known forever as natural selection. Since I stopped reading at this point, I don't know where Dutton will go. I'll find out later and pursue my own thoughts. Darwin's theory was important to me as a paleontologist, but I never really thought about it in terms of art. Can this theory be applied to art?? We'll see.

Art begins with a creative thought. For me, it began with a chicken egg:

Painting 1 (below): boring!!

Selective retention: I'll use the chicken egg.

Random mutation: caused by random acts with a hammer.

Selective retention: I'll keep the cracked eggs.

Random mutation: color design caused by random acts with a paintbrush

Painting 2 (below): better!

Selective retention: cracked eggs and highly chromatic design.
Random mutation: multiplication

Painting 3 (below): more interesting!

Selective retention: lots of cracked eggs and highly chromatic design.
Random mutation: illusion of space

Painting 4 (below): now we're getting somewhere!

Selective retention: lots of cracked eggs, highly chromatic design, illusion of space.

Random mutation: directionality caused by applying the Fibonnaci numbers

Painting 5 (below): cool!

Selective retention: lots of cracked eggs, highly chromatic design, illusion of space, directionality
Random mutation: the Recession of 2008

Painting 6: yikes!

Selective retention: lots of cracked eggs, highly chromatic design, illusion of space, directionality, Recession of 2008

Random mutation: see last post and there are more in the works!