This study examined the effect of inaccurate perspective on the impression of paintings by means of the protocol analysis of observers’ free talking. Participants observed two paintings by renowned artists used as stimuli in two conditions, either simultaneously (Exp.1) or with 1-week interval (Exp.2). In the original condition, they were presented in their original form drawn in inaccurate per...

Museumgoers often scoff that costly abstract expressionist paintings could have been made by a child and have mistaken paintings by chimpanzees for professional art. To test whether people really conflate paintings by professionals with paintings by children and animals, we showed art and nonart students paired images, one by an abstract expressionist and one by a child or animal, and asked whi...

Research in non-photorealistic rendering often focuses on reproducing specific artistic styles. Unfortunately, many artists are unwilling or unable to articulate the technical basis of their style. Bob Ross is a notable exception. He left behind a complete and explicit record, in print and on video. His paintings cut many corners in the representation of reality, but they are convincing. Bob Ro...

With the invention of the stereoscope, Charles Wheatstone transformed not only our vision of pictures, but also our understanding of some intricacies of spatial perception. In his obituary notice in Nature, the following comments were made by Signor Volpicelli of the Academia dei Lincei: ``Our countryman, Leonardo da Vinci, in 1500, or thereabouts, conceived and was the first to affirm, that fr...

abstract the qajar dynasty was a time of civil wars as well as the wars against russia, meanwhile, qajarid shahs, understanding the power of sublime art both in internal and external political relations, tried to expand and renew the style of the mural decorations which is the issue of this article. increasing the relations with european countries like england and france, fath ali shah and his ...

Bright eyed and bushy-tailed poems paintings are very rare, so their past masters who create them. The history of the world literature is often brimming with such rare authors as unparalleled amalgamator writings. In this field, names, which counted highly boundless esteem, William Blake, Lewis Carroll, Hans Christian Andersen, Elizabeth Bishop, Leo Tolstoy, Lorraine Hansberry, Victor Hugo, Syl...

in this article, multichannel eeg signals of artists and nonartists were analyzed during the performances of visual perception and mental imagery of paintings using cepstrum coefficients. each of the calculated cepstrum coefficients and their parameters such as energy, average, standard deviation and entropy were separately used for distinguishing the two groups. it was also found that a distin...

The way the human body is depicted in classical and modern paintings relevant for art historical analyses. Each artist has certain themes concerns, resulting different poses being used more heavily than others. In this paper, we propose a computer vision pipeline to analyse pose representations paintings, which can be specific artists or periods. Specifically, combine two estimation approaches ...