Lady Breeze

Human perception is a creative and complex process, not an objective one. The brain is not a camera that passively registers the external world or forms representations of external phenomena; it’s not a mere recorder of images and sounds, of tactile sensations and odors. The brain interprets. It brings to bear its previous experience and analyses isolated cases in the framework of general laws, subjectively. Among the many aspects that might be studied about perception there is one that is especially interesting: man tends to find an aesthetic aspect in what he perceives. The human being, when perceiving, discovers beauty or ugliness. People have expressed these perceptions in art and have created images, sounds, flavors and texts that appear to be beautiful and that transmit their own subjectivity to other human beings. The laws of perception have been used very intelligently in art. The artists play with perspective, with the shapes of figures, with light… Leonardo used sfumato to ...