When first encountering the art of Cuban-born painter Agustín Fernández, as I did earlier this month, it helps to keep in mind “Looking at and Understanding Two Different Operations,” a title that he ...

Surveys the principles of visual perception based on psychological research and everyday experience, and how they are related to the perception of art in particular.

The character and content of visual literacy -- Composition: the syntactical guidelines for visual literacy -- The basic elements of visual communication -- The anatomy of a visual message -- The ...

Reactivation of earlier perceptual activity is thought to underlie long-term memory recall. Despite evidence for this view, it is unclear whether mnemonic activity exhibits the same tuning properties ...

We are all in bondage to something: an idea, someone else’s perception, our own belief system, our financial status, perhaps our health. Wisconsin artist Fred Stonehouse, whose exhibition Family Land ...