When creating an artwork, the artist makes a decision regarding the orientation at which the work is to be hung based on their aesthetic judgement and the message conveyed by the piece. Is the impact or aesthetic appeal of a work diminished when it is hung at an incorrect orientation? To investigate this question, Experiment 1 asked whether naïve observers can appreciate the correct orientation...

This demonstration challenges the conventional art experience. It brings together the fields of art, science, and software integration. The goal was to create a new kind of painting based on embedded technology, experimenting with a new media: paintings augmented with RFIDs. The aim was to achieve interaction between the artist's paintings and art gallery visitors.

Parataxis is the main grammatical feature of Chinese sentences while hypotaxis is the main grammatical feature of English. Similarly, Chinese classical paintings stress on the psychological harmony of subject-object unity and Western classical paintings on extrinsic form. It is found that the aesthetic thinking of classical painting is reflected in English and Chinese syntactic structure.

The abstract paintings of Piet Mondrian and Jackson Pollock are traditionally regarded as representing opposite ends of the diverse visual spectrum of Modern Art. In this article, I present an overview of recent scientific research that investigates the enduring visual appeal of these paintings.

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The chromatic content and diversity experienced by normal observers when observing art paintings vary with the spectral composition of the illumination and can be estimated by quantities such as color rendering indices and the number of discernible colors. Can these estimates be extended to color deficient observers? The aim of this work was to investigate how the number of discernible colors p...

When artist Steve Miller met Nobel Laureate Rod MacKinnon at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, MacKinnon was investigating protein structures: specifically, how potassium ions move across cell membranes. Miller became fascinated with the visual tools MacKinnon used to grapple with the problem: 3D computer models of proteins, graphical equations and diagrams in the scientist’s notebook...