Physiological and psychological basis of aesthetics

Abstract

From colors and paints, we now turn to the form of objects, that is, to the presentation of aesthetic conditions and laws of distribution and combination of lines that limit the subject. Color, as we saw, depends on different excitations of different kinds of fibers of the optic nerve; the form depends on the number and relative position of the nerve fibers excited in this way. The eye, initially, can perceive only the length in its two dimensions, that is, the plane of the figure.

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