Art and Perception. Towards a Visual Science of Art, Part 2

Baingio Pinna, Ph.D. (1993) in Experimental Psychology, University of Padua, Italy, is Professor of Psychology and Perceptual Psychology at University of Sassari, Italy. He has published extensively on visual psychophysics and discovered several new visual illusions (Revolving Wheels, Watercolor, Discoloration, Flashing Color Contrast, etc.).

• IntroductionThe illusion of ArtHow do painters represent motion in garments? Graphic invariants across centuriesImplicit and explicit features of paintingsReflections in artThe incomplete angler: effects created by visual omissionUnderstanding 2D projections on mirrors and on windowsThe aesthetic experience of ‘contour binding’The representation of time course events in visual arts and the development of the concept of time in children: a preliminary studySelf and world: large scale installations at science museumsThe visual system as a constraint on the survival and success of specificartworksSpatial vision anomalies in Renaissance art: Raphael, Giorgione, DürerTowards a framework for the study of the neural correlates of aesthetic preferenceFactors contributing to depth perception: behavioral studies on the reverse perspective illusionEmmert’s Law and the moon illusionAesthetic issues in spatial composition: effects of position and direction on framing single objectsAngle illusion on a picture’s surfaceThe art of seeing and paintingAttentional vs computational complexity measures in observing paintingsCorner salience varies linearly with corner angle during flicker-augmented contrast: a general principle of corner perception based on Vasarely’s artworksFrom perception to art: how vision creates meanings