Aesthetic Visual Quality Assessment of Paintings

The forms are abstract, yet we see a living being present. He looks up expectantly and somewhat fearfully as his eyes are surrounded in a blue mask-like form, with wide black bands above forming the eyebrows. The eyes are beautifully, sensitively carved and seem to emerge from the soft flesh of the lids which have a very sharp, exact edge. Why does he have this disagreeable expression? He does not like the world—has too much contempt. Looking at the mask upside down, what do we see?—another very different living thing—which is smiling! On this upside-down mask we actually see three faces, one above the other, totem-pole fashion....
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Aesthetic Visual Quality Assessment of Paintings