01:830:250 Lecture : Psych Of Art Class Notes
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Required book: the structure of painting by michael leyton. 1 exam: monday may 2 (book and lecture notes) Main topics: how to read the composition of a painting, how the composition relates to the emotional expression. The composition inspires emotions in the viewer: what is the survival function of art. (main goal: train our eyes; train you) Composition emotions survival (people worship art because it brings out emotion) The word emotion means e outward motion movement. So the shapes in the painting give us information about the: So the shapes have acted as a store for those movements: (shapes store the emotions and viewers grasp them) So, to understand how a painting works, we have to understand how the viewer can recover, from the shapes, the e-motion of the artists. The shapes are acting as a memory store for those e-motions: (shape is equivalent to memory storage)