Sensation and Perception on Visual Art

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Visual perception is dominant among all the human perceptual activities because it supplies first0hand sensory experience and enables humans to assign meaning and practice to their own visual concepts. (Yu,2012). The way children perceive visual art has a different interpretation on what they perceive and what is going when the eye and the brain work together. Children picture books tell stories with a blend of texts and images. The interaction between picture books shows the relationship with visual perception. Three to five year old children are characterized by a reliance on their perception because they see what appears to them. Psychology researchers in cognitive and child development studies have long recognized an association between visual perception and the growth of children. (Yu, 2012). Throughout the development process the child, they experience physiological and psychological developments of visual perception. A child sharpens his or her visual experience, develops concepts and attaches mean from what they have seen and learned. Visual perception changes with an individual’s biases, feelings, attitudes or like experiences. In other words, many factors, such as developmental stages or life experiences, can impact on a child’s visual perception. (Yu, 2012). Children picture books provide visual experiences and also show a connection between visual perception and recognition and appreciation of art.

Visual perception is sometimes taken for granted as a passive behavior of absorbing information through one’s eyes (Yu, 2012). There have been studies that show that perception indicates that perceivers are not passive viewers. Perceivers develop their personalities and strategies. (Schwartz 2010) found that visual perception could reveal the depth information through classification ad representation (Yu, 2012). For children, visual perception introduces a channel for children to interact with the environment, which can help them develop concepts and language.

Optical illusions are another type of visual art that we perceive very differently than from just a standard type of painting. Geometrical illusion can produce striking alterations of perceived size, shape, orientation or position. In the Muller-Lyer illusion, two equally long lines surrounded by pairs of acute and obtuse angles appear unequal in length, while a ruler reveals that they are not (de Wit, 2015). When it comes to optical illusions there has been some arguing between how perception can typically rely on the detection of variables that merely correlate with the to-be-perceived property. Based on this work, we develop an ecological approach to visual illusion that explains differential effects of illusions in terms of the optical variables detected by the observer (deWit, 2015).

As stated, there are two types of approaches to detect visual perception, which can be direct and indirect perception. In many other theories of perception, they presume that the energy patterns from the environment detect information to the brain. The retinal image of objects, for example, varies with the shape and orientation of the object and the observer’s distance to it. Indirect perception approaches the problem of ambiguity in the relationship between the stimulus information available from the retina and its cause in the environment by stating that the visual system actively constructs perception of the environment (de Wit, 2015).

An explanation of the classical explanation of the Muller-Lyer illusion is that the illusion results from the processing of cues of three-dimensional structure that are claimed to be present in its projections on the retinal images. The Ponzo illusion has almost the same explanation as the Muller-Lyer illusion. The Ponzo illusion is a drawing where there are two equally long horizontal lines, which are placed one above the other, surrounded by other converging lines in the drawing. The converging lines represent the convergence of a railway with distance. Since the top horizontal line is further away from the perceiver than the bottom one in the virtual space of the picture, but of identical retinal size, the top line is perceived as larger than the bottom line. (de Wit, 2015.)

Visual perception is an active performance also known as a cognitive activity. As stated above, visual perceptions refer to the visual framework of spatial location of entire seen objects right here or a part of visual world. (Arslangazi, 2012). There is a combination between perceiving and thinking in visual perception. The thinking process is the output of perception. The cognitive part of perception means all mental operations involved in the receiving, storing and processing of information: sensory perception, memory, thinking and learning (Arslangazi, 2012). In other words, visual perception is visual thinking. The visual thinking is an important part of the learning process.

The process of visual perception and thinking has become a significant aspect in education. The ability to learn to see is the ability to learn how to actually visual think, to learn the term of light, shadow, background and color harmony. In the study of visual art and perception, perception is revealed as the mechanism of creating emotional response accompanied with semantic capacity of design object and special features of its visual organization.

In every field of visual art, there is a different aspect that is represented in the form of art. Every artwork shows and examines different aspects of the brain and the way we think and our emotions. Perception is the central concern of all art and lets you feel and think of the emotion the artist was feeling with just visualizing a steady form of art. The structure of the eye is incredible and it is amazing that we can perceive and start thinking of what we are sawing in a matter on one second. The brain and the eye are powerful concepts that make living life amazing. Human vision is not just looking at an object and just sending the image to the brain to analyze but to actually know that our brain is going through codes and neurons and messages trying to establish the difference between depth perception, optical illusion and vision dysfunction.

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