Posing for art class

Art theory reemphasizes the importance of plasticity in vision;

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I posed for art because brains recognized the unperceived symbols,

Henri Matisse, Life modeling

and learned to associate them with reward.

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"The artist can't paint what he sees"

Ernst Gombrich, Art and illusion

Traditionally, models have been regarded as an unnecessary dilution of the true task of formal mathematics — to provide generalized proofs that make no appeal to particular examples.

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