Through the artist's eyes.

Enhancing aesthetic appreciation by priming canvases with actions that match the artist's painting style

The creation of an artwork requires motor activity. To what extent is art appreciation divorced from that activity and to what extent is it linked to it? That is the question which we set out to answer. We presented participants with pointillist-style paintings featuring discernible brushstrokes and asked them to rate their liking of each canvas when it was preceded by images priming a motor ac...

A new perspective on Bruch's membrane and the retinal pigment epithelium.

Trypsin digestion of retinal pigment epithelium is a technique that bares Bruch's membrane, to allow topographical examination by scanning electron microscopy. Twenty-five human eyes were examined. The zonula occludens of the pigment epithelium was clearly seen as a surface feature, but attachment plaques at the sides and base were not visible. The adhesion between the pigment epithelium and th...

Why can't most people draw what they see?

The study presented a theoretical and empirical approach to the adult drawing process. Four possible sources of drawing inaccuracies were described: misperception of the object, inability to make good representational decisions, deficient motor skills, and misperception of the drawing. In four studies the degree to which the latter three sources contributed to drawing inaccuracies was assessed....

Production of enclosed handicrafts in the Qashqai tribe based on the anthropology of art

Nomadic handicrafts are the most important manifestation of indigenous and tribal art and represent a set of social and cultural characteristics of nomadic life. In the Qashqai tribe, hand-woven chambers are one of the practical products of the women of the tribe. With the change in the structure of tribal life, the settlement of tribes and nomads, and the continued migration of large numbers o...

Our Museum- An Artist's View

Caricature System using Moving Least Squares based on Justin

In this paper, we propose a new automatically generation system of caricature which emphasizes the unique characteristics of the input images. This system can create the cartoon character similar to user’s features by using set rules adopted a particular artist's technique. Input image is transformed by using MLS(Moving Least Squares) approximation[1] based on a predefined cartoon character’s i...