Had a long talk with someone about it and how Chaos in art can set you Free!. Tried reading more about it because I'm having a hard time understanding the concept. Still having a hard time. Please Advise.

I prefer structure and process. Like architecture, art should have a program. As a sculptor, I design to serve a function. Art... the liberator... Rather be in a cage sitting on a boulder with a hammer.

I need some Chaos experts to help me feel stupid.

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I need some Chaos experts to help me feel stupid.

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What does that mean? Well, I've never heard the expression that Chaos art can set you free. Healing art is the only one I'm familiar with that teaches how to release pent up emotions through art. In short, Chaos art is actually the opposite of what you may think... yes, it looks deceptive, erratic, and disorganized; however, all chaos artworks have an underlying orderly system in disguise, or chaos... Precise patterns, over and over that create art. Very much like fractal art.
Kae

I am familiar with the notion of chaos in a physical sense. It describes a system that if you enter one variable, you get one answer, but if you enter a variable that's very slightly different, you get a wildly different answer.

This is present in the three body orbit problem - they all orbit in such a way that there is no use in trying to predict how they move in a 3 body system, because you can't measure the variables to a high enough accuracy to end up with exactly the same system in your model as there is in real life.

Is this physical concept of chaos linked to the artistic one? I definitely would not say fractals are chaotic - they are very very orderly.

In my experience, "chaotic" art isn't chaotic at all. Really, it's artistic. Modern art is up for any interpretation. Take for example a Jackson Pollock painting (essentially paint splatter) (like so):

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/image...ollock_300.jpg

While it may look chaotic to the untrained eye, some may turn the shapes and colors into something meaningful to them.

Another by Kandinsky:

http://www-theorie.physik.unizh.ch/r.../kandinsky.jpg

Kandinsky was a color theorist and played with which colors created different feelings/judgements. Also, he mainly uses geometric shapes, and while they seem to be laid down on the paper randomly, one shape leads your eye to another line to another shape to a grid to a line and so on... Your eye remains on the paper while you look around at what the heck is going on.

Also sometimes, it's more the process than the product.