Expressionist Painting: City Landscape City Landscape depicts a nonrepresentational scene.8 A sense of entrapment (or a means of escape) is felt as the applied and colorful paint appears to leak out from the central part of the support. Loosely constructed geometric shapes recall a rock-like surface, which enclose and frame the color within and assist the eye inward toward the colorful scene. E...

This paper describes the development of an autonomous robot for painting the interior walls of buildings. The robot consists of a painting arm with an end effector roller that scans the walls vertically and a mobile platform to give horizontal feed to paint the whole area of the wall. The painting arm has a planar twolink mechanism with two joints. Joints are driven from a stepping motor throug...

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the iranian world has a well-established tradition of images that goes back to anitiquity. the structure relation between text and image become increasingly intricate in illustrated manuscripts, at least from the middle of forteenth century onwards. these links can be observed through the composition and layout of the paintings. these relations seem to be expressed in some persian poetical text...

Can knowledge help viewers when they appreciate an artwork? Experts' judgments of the aesthetic value of a painting often differ from the estimates of naïve viewers, and this phenomenon is especially pronounced in the aesthetic judgment of abstract paintings. We compared the changes in aesthetic judgments of naïve viewers while they were progressively exposed to five pieces of background inform...

This study intends to exam Clive Bell’s theory of significant form. For Bell, a painting could not be a work of art if line and color were used to recount anecdotes, express ideas, and indicate the lifestyle of an age. In his influential book Art, Bell claimed that William Powell Frith’s famous narrative painting The Railway Station was not a work of art. This paper used Frith’s painting as the...

Landscapes have been the main theme in Chinese painting for over one thousand years. Chinese ink painting is a form of nonphotorealistic rendering. Terrain is the major subject in Chinese landscape painting, and surface wrinkles are important in conveying the orientation of mountains and contributing to the atmosphere. Over the centuries, masters of Chinese landscape painting have developed var...

Emotional responses to art have long been subject of debate, but only recently have they started to be investigated in affective science. The aim of this study was to compare perceptions regarding frequency of aesthetic emotions, contributing factors, and motivation which characterize the experiences of looking at painting and listening to music. Parallel surveys were filled in online by partic...

the most challenging part of the commission, painting the head and face, was the most trying day for me because I was unable to move my head without upsetting the pose. The artist often consulted the photographs and to my surprise used a tape measure to determine the relationships between various parts of my face. The technique of facial measurement derives from Holbein, the sixteenth century D...