visual perception

Introduces the design principles, tools, materials, and techniques used by artists to express their ideas in two- and three-dimensional forms.

A series of views of one landscape is seen from progressively closer vantage points, beginning in outer space and ending with a view of a ladybug as seen by a kneeling child.

This title in the series looks at how light, color, and shade can mess with your mind! Learn how contrast, assimilation, and after-image can make things change color in front of your eyes, and recreate these amazing illusions for yourself with fun experiments.

This title in the series will play around with your ideas of perspective and space! Learn about hybrid illusions, ambigrams, and impossible shapes and structures, and make your own versions of these incredible illusions.

This title in the series will demonstrate how your eyes see and interpret light and motion, sometimes in the strangest ways! Watch static images come to life, learn about saccades and peripheral vision, and fool your friends into thinking you can make objects move with a special trick.

"Something that's been printed on paper can't possibly be able to move, right? Because of how our brain works, though,it's possible to create images that seem to move or shake. On every page of this book, readers can test out different optical illusions while learning how they work. Facts boxes add . . . details about how the human brain deals with certain kinds of art, images, and see the world around us to create optical illusions"--Provided by publisher.

"Those studying art spend a long time learning about how to create the right perspective. Depending on what's around a tree or animal, the main part of the image can look different, bigger, smaller, closer, or farther away. It's really just a trick. Readers learn how the brain is affected by these optical illusions"--Provided by publisher.

"A picture shows exactly how things look. Well, it does most of the time. However, our brains use lines and angles to figure out whether buildings are bigger than each other or leaning in an odd way. This book shows readers exactly how pictures can be optical illusions and why they see what they do"--Provided by publisher.

"Salvador Dali is just one artist that employed the use of double images in his art. This historical practice can really puzzle someone looking at Dali's artwork, until they see the second image. This book introduces readers to . . . artistic concepts as well as how the human brain perceives them. Readers draw connections between scientific theory, art, and their own experiences looking at the many optical illusions found in each chapter"--Provided by publisher.

Examines how people have been depicted working on farms, in factories and offices, and at home in works of art from different time periods and places.