We here analyze the paintings and films of several visual artists, who suffered from a well-defined neuropsychological deficit, visuo-spatial hemineglect, following vascular stroke to the right brain. In our analysis we focus in particular on the oeuvre of Lovis Corinth and Luchino Visconti as both major artists continued to be highly productive over many years after their right brain damage. W...

Physical and chemical changes can degrade the visual color appearance of old paintings. Five digital color restoration techniques, which can be used to simulate the original appearance of paintings, are presented. Although a small number of color samples is employed in the restoration procedure, simulation results indicate that good restoration quality can be attained.

background to assess the concept of children concerning their health and its risk factors, a group of primary and middle school students were asked to draw a few relevant pictures in order to deeply explore the comprehension of this key group.   methods in this cross-sectional study 1165 students, aged 7-15 years old, selected through random stratified sampling, were asked to draw a number of e...

The project “Everything is Number” started in the year 2008 with a calendar illustrated by the Swiss artist Eugen Jost. All paintings deal with mathematical topics. The interplay of arts and mathematics provides fascinating insights into mathematics especially for students at school. Sponsored by the German employers’ association Gesamtmetall the calendar paintings became part of an exhibition ...

This report presents an automatic method for recognition of paintings in a museum. The developed method recognizes the given input picture among 33 classes of paintings and provides the name of the painting as output. The proposed method can be used as an interactive museum guide, which provides more information of the paining to the visitors.

A method of shape generation using shape grammars which take shape as primitive and have shape-specific rules is presented. A formalism for the complete, generative specification of a class of non-representational, geometric paintings or sculptures is defined which has shape grammars as its structural component. Paintings are material representations of two-dimensional shapes gen~rated by shape...

In a recent editorial I stated ~hat I am not much of a collector. ] At one time, all I collected was saxophone recordings. However, a few years ago I started to collect Huichol Indian yarn paintings. I now have a sizable collection, My friend Anne Geary introduced me to the craft of these Mexican Indians. It was through her that I met Olga and Bob Brooks, from whom I buy the paintings. They run...

Paintings are usually paintings of things: a room in a palace, a princess, a dog. But what would it be to paint not those things, but the experience of seeing those things? Las Meninas is sufficiently sophisticated and masterfully executed to help us explore this question. Of course, there are many kinds of paintings: some abstract, some conceptual, some with more traditional subjects. Let us s...

Time perception can be affected by real emotional pictures of people that evoke different levels of arousal. Figurative artwork images of body postures that imply movement with different intensities and evoke different levels of arousal can modulate the perception of time. The present study investigated whether abstract paintings that represent motion in different ways affect the perception of ...