Word: swiftness
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...portraits illustrate a paradox: although faces are the most recognizable and memorable objects in the world, neither artists nor perceptual psychologists yet know for sure why we recognize them, or what makes a given face familiar. In the street, one scans a face and recognizes it from swift generalizations. No computer has yet been successfully programmed to make these generalizations; only the human brain, apparently, can both sort out and recognize forms as complex as those of a face. But Close's big paintings, each head 7 ft. or 8 ft. high, try not to make any generalizations...
Chuch McDermott and Wheatstraw--Jonathan Swift...
Chuck McDermott and Wheatsrraw--Jonathan Swift...
John Lincoln Wright and the Sour Mash Boys--Jonathan Swift...
John Lincoln Wright and the Sourmash Boys--Jonathan Swift...