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Art as a Darwinian fitness signal 4

Peter Day
Netherlands

Honorable Mention

"Art as a Darwinian fitness signal 4"

This photo is based on the book 'The Art Instinct' by Denis Dutton.


Biography: �I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fantasy to what is positively trivial.� Charles Baudelaire, poet and art critic They are undeniably photos, and yet my work might be said to be almost non-photographic. The subject is not important, only the intrinsic value of the image. I reduce my models to a form, line, concept or theme. This results in picturesque contours, the monsters of my fantasy. Struck by our corresponding view on art, I started a dialogue with the art...

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