Foundational Arts: Mural Painting and Missionary Theater in New Spain - by Schuessler, Michael K.

Mural Painting Digital Surveys

The method presented in this paper answers the following question related to the documentation of mural painting conservation: how can information technology be applied in order to achieve ease of symbolizing and updating, better accuracy, flexible presentation, ease of integration and cross-link with other data? Furthermore, another important issue: are all these possible at a low cost? 1. GRA...

Painting Regional Identities: Nationalism in the Arts, France, Germany and Spain, 1890-1914

Large-Scale Quantitative Analysis of Painting Arts

Scientists have made efforts to understand the beauty of painting art in their own languages. As digital image acquisition of painting arts has made rapid progress, researchers have come to a point where it is possible to perform statistical analysis of a large-scale database of artistic paints to make a bridge between art and science. Using digital image processing techniques, we investigate t...

Aesthetic Emotions Across Arts: A Comparison Between Painting and Music

Emotional responses to art have long been subject of debate, but only recently have they started to be investigated in affective science. The aim of this study was to compare perceptions regarding frequency of aesthetic emotions, contributing factors, and motivation which characterize the experiences of looking at painting and listening to music. Parallel surveys were filled in online by partic...

A Prehistoric Mural in Spain Depicting Neurotropic Psilocybe Mushrooms?

A Prehistoric Mural in Spain Depicting Neurotropic Psilocybe Mushrooms? The Selva Pascuala mural, a work of post-Paleolithic rock art in Spain, contains fungoid figures herein hypothesized to depict neurotropic fungi, especially Psilocybe hispanica, a species that occurs in a neighboring region. This hypothesis is based on features of these figures related to fungal morphology, along with ethno...