Journal article

Publication year: 2020

Pages: 407-433

Journal: Art & Perception

Volume number: 8

Issue number: 3-4

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1163/22134913-20191116

Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers

Abstract: 

Material perception - the visual perception of stuff - is an emerging field in vision research. We recognize materials from shape, color and texture features. This paper is a selective review and discussion of how artists have been using shape features to evoke vivid impressions of specific materials and material properties. A number of examples are presented in which visual artists render materials or their transformations, such as soft human skin, runny or viscous fluids, or wrinkled cloth. They achieve this by expressing the telltale shape features of these materials and transformations, often by carving them from a single block of marble or wood. Vision research has just begun to investigate these very shape features, making material perception a prime example of how art can inform science.

Harvard Citation style: Schmidt, F. (2020) The Art of Shaping Materials, Art & Perception, 8(3-4), pp. 407-433. https://doi.org/10.1163/22134913-20191116

APA Citation style: Schmidt, F. (2020). The Art of Shaping Materials. Art & Perception. 8(3-4), 407-433. https://doi.org/10.1163/22134913-20191116