Although executive functions have been widely studied in individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), there have been no direct empirical studies of executive abilities in savants with ASD. This study assessed three facets of executive ability – fluency, perseveration and monitoring – in savant artists with ASD, compared to nontalented adults with ASD or moderate learning difficulties (MLD...

Manifold approaches exist for organization of music by genre and/or style. In this paper we propose the use of text categorization techniques to classify artists present on the Internet. In particular, we retrieve and analyze webpages ranked by search engines to describe artists in terms of word occurrences on related pages. To classify artists we primarily use support vector machines. We prese...

There is no better way to introduce this delightful book by Hyatt Mayor, Curator of Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 1946-66, than to quote the opening sentences of the author's own short preface: "Histories of anatomy exist in sufficient quantity, so this essay revolves around two questions only: What have artists done to record dissections and so help anatomists to see? And what, in t...

Copper phthalocyanine (CuPc) provides the most important blue and green pigments from the 21st century artists’ paints. This paper focuses on the blue pigments of CuPc, which are referenced in the Colour Index as PB15. The employment of PB15 as artists’ pigments since the very beginning until now is summarized through archives of artists’ color makers and current color charts. Moreover, for the...

Artists have different parameters to, for example, colour scientists, for considering the quality of the finished image. An analysis of the work is based on an artist's conception of the work and a subjective assessment of print surface, colour and image quality, which although may appear to be based on the same criteria as a reproduction, the impact on the viewer is quite different. This prese...

The entertainment industry is undergoing significant transformation and growth. The goal of the entertainment agency is to establish and manage the careers of individual artists. This research develops an approach to evaluate the potential of entertainment artists and construct individualized career maps. Data mining techniques are used to correlate the entertainment news on the Internet with t...

We present an efficient unsupervised approach in finding subjective artist meta-data on the world wide web. Since we are interested in the collective knowledge on artists as available on the web, our method is based on the extraction of information from multiple web pages. We use co-occurrences of pairs of artists on the web to identify similarity between artists. To determine the applicability...

Artists value the ability to determine what parts of their composition is most appreciated by viewers. This information normally comes straight from viewers in the form of oral and written feedback; however, due to the lack of participation on the viewers part and because much of our visual understanding of artwork can be subconscious and difficult to express verbally, the value of this feedbac...

Relationship between genius and mental illness has always been an issue of interest and controversy. Creative people in arts have been more prone to mental illness as compared to the men of science. Asylums of yesteryears in England, France and Spain have had eminent artists such as Hogarth, Dadd, Van Gough and Goya either as residents or as records of the scenes in those hospitals. These relat...