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Santiago Ramon y Cajal is one of a kind in more ways than one.
We may allow Picabias diagrams and Twomblys squiggles to be art but not those of Cajal.
This needs to change.
As with Michelangelo, Cajal revels in the deep wonders of the human body.
These results changed neuroscience.
His work is still widely used as a teaching equipment.
The drawings can change lives.
The closest art equivalent to Cajals drawings are Leonardos weather and water deluges.
Da Vinci saw the world outside.
Cajal gives us the forces at workwithin us.You look at them and think, Thats me.
If this isnt art, I dont know what is.
We almost didnt have Cajal the artist at all.
His parents forbid him to draw at home, saying it was a sinful amusement.
Here he crafted his epic powers of observation, ethereal touch, and tonal fields.
Its like looking at the ghostly penumbra of a Seurat drawing.
The confrontation with his work isnt like looking at scientific illustrations at all.
His titles are fabulous.
Art lovers will revel in connecting Cajals work and scores of other contemporary, modern, and older artists.
Cajals gorgeous drawings let us see profundity.
