Ordinary Perceptions The Significance Of Banal Impression

What is a banal impression? A banal impression is a subtle, often unnoticed influence that mundane or repetitive experiences have on our thoughts and behaviors. Banal impression often conjures up thoughts of everyday encounters, but its impact on our perceptions and interactions is anything but ordinary. Perhaps the most significant contribution to banalography was egglestons democratic forest published in 1989 (fig. 2), where he is at war with the obvious (eggleston, 1989, afterword).

This essay examines the banal as an aesthetic category a motif and a mode of reception and looks critically at the embodiment of the ordinary that lies at its heart. One hundred years after duchamps fountain, whether celebrated or questioned, banality and the aesthetic of the familiar still play a significant role in the contemporary artistic practice and. Ordinary experience is a concept explored across various philosophical traditions, including jainism, tibetan buddhism, vedanta, dharmashastra, vaisheshika, and theravada.