Artists Do See the World Differently

It's unlikely you need persuading that you look at the world in a different way to your non-artist friends, but now you can provide them with scientific evidence. An experiment using eye-tracking cameras and software to record how non-artists and trained artists look at pictures has revealed that there is quite a difference in the way each looks as a picture, as shown in these photos in the article about the research in Cognition Daily.

Why does it happen? The researchers "argue that it comes down to training: artists have learned to identify the real details of a picture, not just the ones that are immediately most salient to the perceptual system, which is naturally disposed to focusing on objects and faces." Read more about How Artists Look at the World...

Other Cognition Daily Articles of Interest to Painters:
• Why the Mona Lisa's Eyes Follow You Around
• The Emotions of Shapes

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