ABSTRACT
Art is universally present in human societies, and its complex pairings of ideas, materials, methods, techniques, and skills express harmonious, meaningful, and symbolic representations. Art is yet another format of idea conceptualization generated by the uniqueness of the human brain. The best neural clues that creativity is bilaterally represented in the brain come from its intactness in established artists with damage in either cerebral hemisphere. Extensive neuronal death and loss of connectivity is what characterizes these neurological conditions, albeit with differing loss rate, and yet artistic abilities were retained. Communication through pictures and drawings is relatively easy, it is universal, cuts across age and culture, applies to realistic and abstract depictions, and is even observed in neurological patients who have lost the ability to communicate verbally or emotionally. Beauty reactions are independent of the degree to which reality is represented in art, thereby suggesting beauty's anchor in biology and neuroanatomy.
