ABSTRACT
Wollheim says he invokes 'psychological factors' in order to answer fundamental questions in the philosophy of art: a 'psychological' account, and mean an account that invokes, in addition to the visible surface of the picture, only psychological factors. When Wollheim criticizes this plausible-seeming account of how representation is possible, he does so from a philosophical point of view. In appealing in the right way to an artist's 'intention' one must appeal to the expression of what is taken to be what the painting represents. Wollheim's 'psychological account' is meant to reveal the position we have in the world that makes it possible for us to see a painting as having a determinate content and makes it possible for us to share that same content with others. The pictorial depiction of particular expression of a conception of human beings as persons is recognition to our nature as human beings.
