The forgotten artist: Why to consider intentions and interaction in a model of aesthetic experience: Comment on “Move me, astonish me. delight my eyes and brain: The Vienna Integrated Model of top–down and bottom–up processes in Art Perception (VIMAP) and corresponding affective, evaluative, and neurophysiological correlates” by Matthew Pelowski et al

In their target article published in this journal issue, Pelowski et al. address the question of how humans experi-ence, and respond to, visual art. In our commentary, we would like to draw attention to certain aspects of art that are difficult to scrutinize by means of individualist information-processing models, and whose role is consequently often neglected.