Visual Perception and Drawing Relationship in Art Education

Relationship Mapping for Art Education and Research

Introduction The catalogue raisonné, or reasoned catalogue, has long been a standard tool for representing large art collections. A typical catalogue raisonné includes images of artworks along with descriptive metadata, commentary, and background information (often a biography of the artist) about the collection. More recently, technological and infrastructural advances (in particular, cheaper ...

Art of Graph Drawing and Art

Pictorial Cues in Art and in Visual Perception

Artists have been looking at the world for thousands of years, and thus paintings and drawings can be considered to form a  -year-old corpus of experimental psychology of perception. Through observation and trial-and-error they have exploited the principles of how our brains interpret the input from the retina, giving priority to only certain regularities of the visual pattern. Thus, a stu...

Art and Design Education in the UK

This paper seeks to identify the philosophical origins of the teaching of art and design and subsequently trace its incorporation into a teaching program in the UK. It briefly discusses the nature of its classical ‘drawing’ background and the conflicts in the debate as to what ‘design’ means. It then goes on to identify the cultural and political context which shaped the institutions, such as A...

Visual Perception in Computer Graphics Education

Computer graphics education is increasingly important to supply the growing needs of the film, games and virtual reality industries. These industries are demanding ever more realistic computer generated environments. Despite the ready availability of modern high performance graphics cards, the complexity of the scenes being modelled and the high fidelity required of the images means that synthe...