Psychologists and artists: perceptual phenomena and representational strategies

Summary This article is related to previous works by its authors addressed to the figures of the same four scholars: Alberto Argenton, Paolo Bozzi, Gaetano Kanizsa, and Manfredo Massironi. The interest in these scholars, who devoted their lives to both teaching and scientific research in psychology and artistic research, also lies in the potential offered by the heritages they handed down to combine science and art. An exemplification of the potentialities we are referring to here is provided by a recent art exhibition dedicated to the four scholars, the precise aim of which was to link the representational strategies they employed in their artistic works with phenomena studied in the fields of Psychology of perception and Psychology of art, of a Gestaltist matrix. The description of the exhibition allows us to make some considerations and proposals aimed at deepening the relations between the two domains, seen also in a cultural, formative and educational perspective.