When1: 1988
When2: 2001
Who: Vilayanur S. Ramachandran [Ramachandran, Vilayanur S.]
What: psychologist
Where: India
works\ Perception of shape from shading [1988]; Phantoms in the Brain [1998: with Sandra Blakeslee]; Synaesthesia: a window into perception, thought and language [2001: with Edward M. Hubbard]; Hearing Colors, Tasting Shapes [2003: with Edward M. Hubbard]; Brief Tour of Human Consciousness [2004]
Detail: He lived 1951 to ?. He invented the bumps and hollows illusion and studied filling-in. He developed Utilitarian Theory of Perception. Perhaps, people produce art to play or to gain pleasure, to stimulate perceptions and exercise art laws. Perhaps, people produce art to show hand-eye coordination and attract mates. Perhaps, people want art to show wealth and attract mates, so they order art. Perhaps, people rehearse abstracting future activity. Perhaps, art has ten universal laws. Art shows and possibly amplifies individual differences from average {peak shift}. Art discovers abstract triggers of perception used by brain to recognize objects and possibly amplifies them. Perception groups surfaces that share feature to make one object {grouping}, so art uses shared features. Mind has to solve problems to perceive {perceptual problem solving}, so art encourages camouflage and ambiguity. Art uses as few features as possible in the outline {understatement, art} {isolation, art}. Art uses composition with balanced opposites {contrast, art}. Art uses composition with various symmetry forms {symmetry, art}. Art depicts universals, not chance or random coincidences. Art uses composition, including rhythm and repeats {repetition, art}, and arrangements of geometry and intensity {balance, art}. Art combines unrelated objects to emphasize feature {metaphor, art}.
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