What Art Tells Us About the Brain: The Surreal Paintings of Rene Magritte 

“The function of painting to make poetry visible...to render thought visible.” (Rene Magritte)

This safari through the paintings of Rene Magritte will reveal your own visual brain in action: figures suddenly are seen as background, only to reverse places in the next glance; transparency battles with opacity; objects are distorted, not by the hand of the artist, but by your brain’s drive to “make sense out of a scene.” Russell D. Hamer, PhD., is a visual neuroscientist whose current work focuses on the brain mechanisms enlisted when viewing visual art, including higher level interpretative, aesthetic and emotional processes in the brain.   

Cost: Museum Admission / Members FREE 

Space is limited. Online registration required. Program tickets available until fifteen minutes prior to program start. Unclaimed pre-registered tickets will be released on a first come, first served basis ten minutes after the start of a program.

Support for lecture was provided by the Gayle and Paul Gross Education Endowment Fund.