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The ideas in this book owe a great deal to Wladyslaw Strzemikski’s Teoria Widzenia (Theory of Vision). In discussing his ideas we have been led into many interesting avenues and our ideas about the processes of making and viewing pictures have been changed. This work, which took Strzemikski’s views as its starting point, sets out an approach to the influence that purely visual factors may exert in the process of picture making and deliberately avoids issues of symbolism and iconography; the latter area in particular has been explored in a wealth of texts by art historians o,ver the last fifty years. We are concerned with pictures as a record of the artist’s visual experience and how this might be interpreted by the viewer. How perceptual processes influence the creation and viewing of pictures are our major concern. The range of the book is then extensive but of course it comments on only one aspect of painting. If this statement appears self-contradictory the reader should reflect on the enormous range of socio-cultural and psychological factors which impinge on a work of art‘s production; perhaps it would then become apparent why a work may be extensive but cover only a fraction of a possible area of study

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PERCEPTION AND ARTISTIC STYLE

Citer: (Parker & Deregowski, 1991)

FTag: Parker-Deregowski-1991

APA7: Parker, D. M., & Deregowski, J. B. (1991). Perception and Artistic Style (1st edition). North-Holland.

Style and content can be seen to be independent of each other and viewers may be moved by either, even though in the greatest works the two aspects harmonise and complement each other.
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An examination of some of the intrinsic characteristics of the eye (eye used here as a shorthand for the entire visual perceptual system), leads to an enhanced appreciation of some of the limitations and subtleties of painting.

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