Art and illusion a study in the psychology of pictorial representation
Read chapter 7 from Gombrich “Conditions of Illusion”
The Cambridge Study Word Scrambler – http://jtnimoy.net/itp/cambscramb/
Description of Pareidolia – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia
Gestalt closure (how viewers fill in missing information) – http://www.google.com/search?q=gestalt closure&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
Spelling Matters – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNStNUizxhE
Ideas from the chapter –
What is needed for western illusion? Linear perspective, shading (shadow and light), color, reflections, texture.
How/why the illusionists used flat space to depict illusions. Impressionist painting are of less documentary value to the social historian than paintings of conventional realists.
The amount of info reaching us from the visible world is incalculably large, while an artist’s medium is inevitably restricted.
Illusion — cut down the info on the canvas and thereby stimulate the mechanism of projection.
Velasquez’ invention from Hilanderas – comic strip artist’s use of lines to suggest speed or where an object has been moments before.
Van Gogh’s discovery: we can see the visible world as a vortex of lines. Is this pre-dated in old print media? But is the ‘expressive’ component absent?