there is not adequate information available about traditional instruction system in the field of visual arts in the pre-modern period. instruction of calligraphy can be considered as traditional instruction of art in a way that its guidelines and instructional texts are remained almost intact. instruction of calligraphy is implemented in aprofessor-student procedure and is accompanied with vari...

Background: FIVCAT.NET is the registry of human assisted reproductive techniques (ART) in Catalunya to which all authorised centres are obliged to declare their activities. The Background of the present study is to describe the data on effectiveness of the ART in Catalunya over the period 2001-2005 and to compare our findings with other similar registries. Materials and Methods: The data were o...

Henri Zerner and Charles Rosen’s meditation on the significance of Romantic “fragment” is followed a few pages later by passing reference to Alexander Cozens’s A New Method Assisting Invention in Drawing Original Compositions Landscape (1785–86). They do not elaborate treatise’s relevance for their argument, except observe that “blots” show an early engagement with abstraction. With this off-ha...

Pictures don't live in isolation from a context of comprehension and response. According to Gretchen Barbatsis, the notion that meaning is something added to a piece of art has important connotation in the way we conceptualize art. The dynamic understanding of visual interpretation is a mutual process, in which the artwork and the viewer add something to one another. Art conveys meanings, refle...

“Content theory” occupies the meaning of artistic works like one hand covers sky, occupying stage emergence sensibility, resulting in absence sensibility appreciation works. However, work art itself is an aesthetic structure with a sense summoning power. Art born by “touch” and exists “feeling”. It arises from very different organ, also calls upon connoisseur to respond sensory experiences. To ...

The realism of avatars in terms of behavioral and form is critical to the development of collaborative virtual environments. In the study we utilized state of the art, realtime face tracking technology to track and render facial expressions unobtrusively in a desktop CVE. Participants in dyads interacted with each other via either a videoconference (high behavioral realism and high form realism...