A category of religious experience that still preserves much of the original blurring and fusion between art and religion is mediumistic or spirit painting. Performed by spiritualist mediums in different locations around the world, this form of religious experience is characterized by the supposed ability of an individual to serve as an instrument for deceased artists to continue to perform the...

Background/Aim Approaching art from the standpoint of optics and the artist’s eye pathology can sometimes explain the shift of the spectral colors in the work of some artists with cataract and aphakia. This may not be obvious in the paintings of other artists with the same eye pathology. The aim of this study was to create a timeline from the recently obtained details of the cataract surgery, h...

ahmed mahmud is one of the most prominent iranian writers in recent decades. he began his work with writing the short story entitled “sob mishe” and continued with” mool”. he received a position among top rank writers with writing the novel  hamsayeha. many critics have criticized  and studied his works and often dealt with the content of his stories. the paper first addresses form and structur...

901 As the Gods began one world, and man another, So the snakecharmer begins a snaky sphere With moon-eye, mouth pipe. He pipes. Pipes green. Pipes water Sylvia Plath, " Snakecharmer " C ritics called him " naïve, " the term for painters with no formal training in art. Henri Rousseau, self-made late-bloomer from Laval, France, fit the definition. But his work proved that in art as in all ventur...

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This article investigates the relation between mind wandering and the spacing effect in inductive learning. Participants studied works of art by different artists grouped in blocks, where works by a particular artist were either presented all together successively (the massed condition), or interleaved with the works of other artists (the spaced condition). The works of 24 artists were shown, w...

Styles in the normal course of historical development change and evolve, and in the process of this movement and change, some poets play a vital role. These poets try to be inventive in order to escape banality and repeated and shallow literary traditions, and by creating a rift between themselves and former traditions they introduce new elements.  These artists either create new figures o...

critics often do not provide similiar definitions to literature_and those they give put emphasis on elements which separates literature from other arts . every literary work is consisted of five elements، namely, scntiments , imaginatios, thoughts ,music and style sentiments provide artistic immortality and everfreshness to a literary work ,imagination is avehicle which carries sentiment and ma...

irony is a technique in figurative language which is very common in the works of mahdi akhavaan saales and can be considered as a prominent feature in his style. although irony is used as a common technique by many iranian writers, many critics have not studied it fully. the author of this article studies irony in the works of mahdi akhavaan saales.

maghameh is one of the literary styles that has been created in the fourth century. the present article studies various aspects of this literary style. first it defines it and then studies its formation and growth followed by its characteristics, sources and different views on it. it attempts to study malek al shoara bahar’s works and his goals in using maghameh, affects and similes in his poet...