Theory of Vision

Theory of Vision is the science of conscious functioning in the world It shows changes under the influence of various cultural and civilizational factors. The author of the Theory of Vision was an outstanding Polish artist working in Łódź - Władysław Strzemiński. The author wanted to spread the concept of visual awareness, aiming at raising the general level of artistic consciousness of society, including artists. He believed that this could be achieved by examining the mechanisms of human perception and how experience and surroundings influence them. Vision is the process of conscious watching of the world. Vision awareness is the ability to use the visual phenomena seen by the human being and realized by him.

Therefore, it becomes an intriguing concept also in the field of Architecture, in which the impact of visual awareness, and at the same time the psychology of perception, the mental space, the patterns of visual perception are the objects of architect's analysis.


Władysław Strzemiński, Sea landscape