Event 3- Blog Post
The Getty Museum is known as a place that has many different forms of artwork from modern art to more historical art; The art that stood out to me the most is the art that showed nudeness or any sort of human sexual behavior because I believe that it is processed in our brains differently than most other things, therefore, connecting the neuroscience of our brain to that of human sexual desires or thoughts when shown nudeness. By focusing on three specific pieces, we can explore how these artworks reflect the anthropology of human sexual behavior and connect these depictions to the scientific processes of neuroscience. 1. "Venus and Adonis" by Peter Paul Rubens The amorous gaze of Venus not only depicts desire but, together with the repulsion of Adonis, effectively portrays the reality of human sexual relations - the combination of attraction and rejection, which is associated with sexual behavior. Psychological anthropologists and especially evolutionary psychologists have
