Athena’s Image in Fine Art and Literature of Art Nouveau

Literature as a Fine Art

Art Nouveau - European Style in Georgia’s Architecture

The fall of the Byzantine Empire in 1453 caused the ancient Christian country of Georgia to lose its close contacts with Europe for several centuries. Having grown weak because of continuous defensive wars, in 1801 Georgia allied herself with Russia and due to strong and developed historical status in the Caucasus, as well as its central geographical location, Georgia became the political-admin...

The Expression of the Divine Order Through the Art of Sculpture in the Greek Art Religion (According to Hegel’s Lectures on Fine Art and his Phenomenology of Spirit)

The art of Greek sculpture is the most complete and appropriate visual form of expression of the divine in the Greek art religion and similar types in the earlier and later religions. In Greek sculpture, form and content are in balance and interact with each other. The Spirit and the material have no dominion over one another. The spirit (divine) recognizes as its proper home the human body, an...

Image Spectrometers, Color High Fidelity, and Fine-Art Paintings

This book chapter presents an introduction to image spectrometers with as example their application to the scanning of fine-art paintings. First of all, the technological aspects necessary to understand a camera as a measuring tool are presented. Thus, CFA-based cameras, Foveon-X, multi-sensors, sequential acquisition systems, and dispersing devices are introduced. Then, the simplest mathematic...

Corcoran Fine Art (CFA)

CFA 1090. Fine Art Fundamentals I: Drawing. 3 Credits. Drawing is the fundamental language of visual communication and an essential skill for all visual artists. In this course, you will improve your drawing skills through exercises in mark making, perspective, and line, with assignments also focusing on value, form and mass, and composition. Students will do gesture and contour drawings as wel...