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Dynamism in paintings and photographs: how the power of diagonals in art overcomes the oblique effect in visual perception

2026-07-27

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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> Artists and photographers use diagonals to convey dynamism, tension and instability in naturalistic and abstract images. However, the oblique effect in visual perception refers to a reduced sensitivity to oblique compared to cardinal (vertical/horizontal) orientations, linked to anisotropy in the distribution of preferred orientations of primary visual cortex neurons, which reflect the statistic...

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Literature Corpus work: f312944c-c9bb-5dd4-8a0f-0686fd58c3ab
DOI: 10.64898/2026.07.22.739875

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