“The less likely an event is to happen, the more information

its occurrence represents”

In his article “Entropy and Art: An Essay on disorder and order” Rudolf Arnheim claims that the
perception of art can be correlated with physical order, that by itself reflects self-biological
phenomena through the act of senses, but only in conjunction between a few of them within
the analytical part of the brain that is required to percept intended or unintended disorder. By
the second law of thermo-dynamics the world is constantly moving towards a qualitative
degree of disorder – a degree in entropy, and matter aspires to dissolute itself in an orderly
way.
The matter seeks to lose tension by a progress of microstates – effects that are made by certain
economics or forces in an otherwise orderly world. The balance between the outside forces and
the tendency of the matter to sort itself in the simplest structure possible towards entropy is
defined as Equilibrium, which suggest that maximum amount of balance has the potency of
complete chaos and leads to the maximum amount of information and hence a greater stability
leads greater potential of development. Arnheim defines Catabolism and Anabolism as two
general forces that’s pushes towards development (a creation of a structural theme) or
destruction – affected by matter’s aim to reduce tension.
Human’s creative behavior is then considered as a sort of anabolic tendency of a structural
theme by citing spencer’s law of evolution: “the words used for the less familiar things are
formed by compounding the words used for the more familiar things”. If so, the process of
separation can be considered as the artistic act of a structural theme. In order to this theme
being maximized to its fullest potential the human body then needs to survive in the most
efficient way – a parsimonious, highly ordered structure, which in itself a fruit of laborious
struggle.

Roee Cohen.