A.L. Yarbus' Experiment Looking at Ivan Shishkin's 'In the Forest'

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Title A.L. Yarbus' Experiment Looking at Ivan Shishkin's 'In the Forest'
Style Period 19th Century Painting
Description The lower panel shows traces of a subject's eye position as he looked at the top image for 10 minutes. Yarbus found that subjects tended to look most at the parts of a picture with high contrast contours and detailed information.
Creation Date 1891 CE
Form painting
Medium oil on canvas
Repository The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow (Russia)
Classes ART 3010: The Language of Color
Source Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing, by Margaret Livingstone. Abrams, New York, 2002.
Work ID 10989
Rights Digital Image Copyright University of Utah
ARK ark:/87278/s6wt254g
Setname uu_aah_art
ID 36486
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6wt254g
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