When I read these articles I always try to find how they relate to me and my own artistic practice. In the article "Abstraction and Empathy: A contribution to the psychology of style", I found a few things that I felt I could strongly agree with.  In chapter two Wilhelm Worringer writes about naturalism and style, were he says naturalism is not a direct imitation of an object. An artist emphasis with on object and there for feels the urge to make art based on the object, which is exactly what I do. I do not want to copy the object in a trompeloeil sense, but  interpret the object how I see it in my mind.  In this article I also find my self thinking of trompeloeil artist such as Richard Shaw. Richard copy's objects so realistically that its hard to believe that they are ceramic sculptures.  Were would we place Richard on the art spectrum were empathy is at one end and naturalism is at the other? I guess that he would be placed on the empathy side because he emphasis's with these objects and therefor enjoys making them into ceramic sculptures, but then his work is very natural looking.