Next
Dinesh

Dinesh club

Posted: 05 Aug 2019

Taken: 04 Aug 2019

0 favorites     2 comments    7 visits

See also...

Keywords

Excerpt & Image from •
Faces In the Clouds •
Author •
Stewart Guthrie •
Anthropomorphism •

Authorizations, license

Visible by: Everyone
Attribution + non Commercial
Photo replaced on 05 Aug 2019
7 visits

Figure 5-32

Figure 5-32
Comments
 Dinesh
Dinesh club
Gombrich says explicitly that anthropomorphism in art results from our biological interests: we “respond with particular readiness to certain configurations of biological significance for our survival. The recognition of a human face, on this argument, is not wholly learned. It is hosted on some kind of inborn disposition.” In born or not, this disposition is universal. Artists appeal to it:

Whenever anything facelike enters our field of vision, we are alerted and respond. We all know the feeling when fever or fatigue has loosened the triggers of our reactions and pattern or the wallpaper suddenly appears to look or leer at us with a threatening grin….given this disposition of ours to meet the design halfway, the artist may find that he has accidently made a face. -page 141
4 years ago.
 Dinesh
Dinesh club
FACES IN THE CLOUDS
4 years ago.

Sign-in to write a comment.