Do bees like Van Gogh's Sunflowers? |
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Authors: | Lars Chittka Julian Walker |
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Institution: | Biological Sciences, Queen Mary College, University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK |
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Abstract: | Flower colours have evolved over 100 million years to address the colour vision of their bee pollinators. In a much more rapid process, cultural (and horticultural) evolution has produced images of flowers that stimulate aesthetic responses in human observers. The colour vision and analysis of visual patterns differ in several respects between humans and bees. Here, a behavioural ecologist and an installation artist present bumblebees with reproductions of paintings highly appreciated in Western society, such as Van Gogh's Sunflowers. We use this unconventional approach in the hope to raise awareness for between-species differences in visual perception, and to provoke thinking about the implications of biology in human aesthetics and the relationship between object representation and its biological connotations. |
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Keywords: | Bumblebee Colour preference Colour vision Primate SciArt |
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