From perception to art: how vision creates meanings Export

@article{Pinna2009Perception, abstract = {This article describes the relationship between Art, as painting or sculpture, and a new theory of perceptual meaning, which builds on and now further develops the Gestalt principles. A key new idea in the theory is that higher-order groupings principles exist which, like the spatial grouping articulated by the principle of Pr\&\#228;gnanz, helps to associate and combine stimuli, but which, unlike the Gestalt laws, can explain combinations of dissimilar as well as similar forms of visual information in a lawful manner. Similarities and dissimilarities are put together again by virtue of another and more global grouping factor that overcomes the dissimilarities of the components: it is some kind of meaning principle that perceptually solves the differences among whole and elements at a higher level, making them appear strongly linked just by virtue of the differences. In this way, similarities and dissimilarities complement and do not exclude each other. Such higher-order principles of grouping-by-meaning are articulated and illustrated using Art, from prehistoric to modern.}, author = {Pinna, Baingio and Reeves, Adam}, citeulike-article-id = {4624360}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156856809788313147}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/vsp/spv/2009/00000022/00000003/art00003}, doi = {10.1163/156856809788313147}, issn = {0169-1015}, journal = {Spatial Vision}, keywords = {art, fun, gestalt, theory}, number = {3}, pages = {225--272}, posted-at = {2009-07-08 14:09:50}, priority = {2}, publisher = {VSP, an imprint of Brill}, title = {From perception to art: how vision creates meanings}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156856809788313147}, volume = {22}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - Pinna2009Perception L3 - citeulike-article-id:4624360 N2 - This article describes the relationship between Art, as painting or sculpture, and a new theory of perceptual meaning, which builds on and now further develops the Gestalt principles. A key new idea in the theory is that higher-order groupings principles exist which, like the spatial grouping articulated by the principle of Prägnanz, helps to associate and combine stimuli, but which, unlike the Gestalt laws, can explain combinations of dissimilar as well as similar forms of visual information in a lawful manner. Similarities and dissimilarities are put together again by virtue of another and more global grouping factor that overcomes the dissimilarities of the components: it is some kind of meaning principle that perceptually solves the differences among whole and elements at a higher level, making them appear strongly linked just by virtue of the differences. In this way, similarities and dissimilarities complement and do not exclude each other. Such higher-order principles of grouping-by-meaning are articulated and illustrated using Art, from prehistoric to modern. IS - 3 JF - Spatial Vision SN - 0169-1015 EP - 272 TI - From perception to art: how vision creates meanings PB - VSP, an imprint of Brill VL - 22 SP - 225 KW - art KW - fun KW - gestalt KW - theory AU - Pinna, Baingio AU - Reeves, Adam PY - 2009/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156856809788313147 ER -