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From our prior experience with
structures of this kind, it seems
impossible that these stairs
could go continuously
downward.
Having explored some of the
major problems about
perception of pictorial art, I
turn now to consider some
problems about the process of
creating such art, the drawing
or painting of pictures. On the
face of it, one might think that
drawing and painting, being
motor acts or behaviors, are far
afield from the topic of
perception. But, on further
reflection, it is evident that
what and how one draws must
be intimately connected with
what and how one perceives. In
that respect, artistic
performance is not very
different from other motor
performance. Motor acts are
triggered and guided by what we
perceive, even in so simple an
act as picking up an object from
a table. Of course, other
cognitive processes, such as
those that underlie memory
and the utilization of
knowledge, also govern overt
behavior, and, as I will suggest,
the same is true for the special
type of behavior we call
drawing and painting.