# Marchetti AJP E pur si move **Keywords:** Depiction, Pictorial Experience, Perception, Depicting Movement, Illusory Motion **Opening (not a real abstract):** E Pur Si Move! Motion-Based Illusions, Perception and Depiction Luca Marchetti Can static pictures depict motion and temporal properties? This is an open question that is becoming increasingly discussed in both aesthetics and the philosophy of mind. Theorists working on this issue have mainly focused on static pictures of dynamic scenes and streaky images – such as futurists’ paintings or long-exposure photographs. And yet, we could ask: if there is some success in creating an illusory impression of movement in a static image - as is the case in optical illusions of movement, such as Bridget Riley’s Fall (1963: Tate, London), or Kitaoka’s Rotating Snakes Illusion - is this to say that such static images depict movement? As far as I know, no one working on the depiction of motion has specifically and **Authors:** [[E Pur Si Move! Motion-Based Illusions,]]