Perception in Art
13 important questions on Perception in Art
Why are some people good at art?
What does art (2-D) depend on?
How did Leonardo da Vinci treat perspective?
---> he first described the rules by which a 3 dimensional world forms a 2 dimensional image (perspective)
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What got art accuracy up to an impressive standard in during the renaissance?
Who was El Greco (1541-1614)?
---> Some Art Historians suggested that El Greco had an astigmatism (a deformation of the eye that causes the images in the eye to be elongated).
What is the El Greco fallacy?
The ability of the brain to produce images in the absence of sensory images in apparent during what?
Why did Michaelangelo leave many of his paintings and sculptures unfinished?
What was Plato's criticisms of painting?
What is a criticism of Egyptian art?
• In addition, the size of images of people were determined not by their relative size to other objects, but by their relative importance
What is one possible reason why modern art has an aesthetic appeal?
E.g. Mondrian’s paintings are particularly effective in activating neurons in V4 that are selective for form and colour.
How do artists convey movement in their art?
---> Early pictures convey movement by showing animals frozen in a moving state
What causes retinal displacement?
---> There is no coherent motion pattern in images, so we perceive the retinal displacement as movement
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