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Vision and Art
URL: http://psych.hanover.edu/Krantz/art/

Description:
This tutorial demonstrates how the illusion of three dimensions can be created in two-dimensional art. Elements that illustrate aspects of depth perception, color perception, and form perception include interposition, relative height and size, linear and aerial perspective, texture gradient, shadows, impossible figures, figure-ground relationships, and spatial summation. From a professor of psychology.

Author:
Krantz, John H.

Publisher:
Hanover College (Indiana)

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Art -- Study and teaching
Visual perception

LII Database Information:
Record 18188 created by Rachael Smithey on 02/19/2001
Last modification on 09/29/2007
Published: 02/19/2001  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/18188