Materiality and atmosphere. Two American beat artists painting Europe

Changes in Painting Styles of Two Artists With Alzheimer’s Disease

A substantial body of literature supports the idea that systematic changes can occur in artists’ painting styles after the onset of degenerating neurological illnesses like Alzheimer’s disease or Fronto-temporal dementia. However, these studies have typically been descriptive and qualitative in their analyses. Our study was motivated to show that quantitative methods can be applied to the neuro...

Painting after right-hemisphere stroke - case studies of professional artists.

Changes in the style of professional artists as an immediate consequence of cerebrovascular disease are an intriguing phenomenon for the neuroscientist. While left-hemisphere damage is commonly provoking alterations in verbal production and comprehension, right-hemisphere stroke often leads to left-sided visuospatial neglect. We present a case series of 13 professional artists with right-hemisp...

Ship Painting: Current Practice and Systems in Europe

Poverty and painting: representations in 19th century Europe.

The social gradient in health is familiar to many readers of scientific journals as a diagonal line on a graph showing the almost universal and often linear relation between people’s social and economic circumstances and their health. The pathways to and from poverty and poverty’s impact on health, however, have also vividly been represented in paintings, particularly in 19th century Europe. Th...

Mental Rotation in Artists and Non-artists

This research was conducted to compare visuospatial skills in male and female artists and non-artists. Twenty artists (10 males and 10 females) and 20 non-artists (10 males and 10 females) were tested for accuracy and reaction time in a lateralized three-dimensional mental rotation task. Males had significantly fewer errors than females, which is consistent with previous research, but this main...