Why can an image be beautiful to one person and ugly to another? What's happening in our brains when we experience art? These are the kinds of questions that drive researchers at the Penn Center for
#Neuroaesthetics and artist-in-residence Judith Schaechter.
Visit the link in our bio to read more about their fascinating work, including Schaecter's theory about the purpose of aesthetic pleasure.
“Beauty is a way of making life bearable,” she said. "It has biological survival value: We need it to want to stay alive.”