Art as metontological problem

Two-Guard Art Gallery Problem

Herder and Reappraising Sculpture as Tactile Art

The main objective of this essay is to re-examine the nature of sculpture and its importance among arts via retrieving and studying the relatively neglected importance of touch in the experience of this art. This objective is pursued according to eighteenth-century German philosopher, Johann Gottfried Herder, by focusing on his Sculpture: Some Observations on Shape and Form from Pygmalion’s Cre...

A chromatic art gallery problem

The art gallery problem asks for the smallest number of guards required to see every point of the interior of a polygon P . We introduce and study a similar problem called the chromatic art gallery problem. Suppose that two members of a finite point guard set S ⊂ P must be given different colors if their visible regions overlap. What is the minimum number of colors required to color any guard s...

The Art of Criticism? Criticism as Art!

Reflections on the Ontology of Mass Art as Avant-garde Art

The aesthetics of “everyday experience” is made by a paradigm that defines the duality of the Elite art/low-class art by focusing on the art of the majority/minority, based on the desire of the urban middle class, It has been put as the art of the people in opposition to the art of avant-garde. The study is based on reflections on possibility of finding the main origin between the art of the ma...