Day: 22 May 2015

  • Picturebook Study: The Glance Curve

    The glance curve describes a Western reader’s tendency to read a picture from left to right. This affects how illustrators compose scenes. In relation to the perception of visual art, the German psychologist Mercedes Gaffron (1908-93) argued in 1950 that Western viewers unconsciously followed a basic perceptual path in looking at two-dimensional perspectival representations—a left-to-right […]

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