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From Baxandall - Painting and Experience in 15th C Italy - Chapter 2

We all take visual information in in the same technical way but when it reaches the brain we all interpret it differently.  Depends on our own experiences, knowledge, skills of interpretation, context (and knowledge of this), cognitive style, culture, patterns, categories, influences, analogies.  ALL THIS MAKES UP OUR TASTE - WHAT WE LIKE/DON'T LIKE