PHOTOGRAPHY CLICHÉS: ON BAUDELAIRE’S MEDIA AESTHETICS AND THE MECHANICAL ARTS

Visual Perception and the Aesthetics of Photography

Arts and Cognition: Performance, Criticism and Aesthetics

Learning Photography Aesthetics with Deep CNNs

Automatic photo aesthetic assessment is a challenging arti cial intelligence task. Existing computational approaches have focused on modeling a single aesthetic score or class (good or bad photo), however these do not provide any details on why the photograph is good or bad; or which attributes contribute to the quality of the photograph. To obtain both accuracy and human-interpretability, we a...

Evolutionary and Neurocognitive Approaches to Aesthetics ~ Creativity , and the Arts

Symmetry and asymmetry in aesthetics and the arts

Symmetry and beauty are often claimed to be linked, particularly by mathematicians and scientists. However philosophers and art historians seem generally agreed that although symmetry is indeed attractive, there is also a somewhat sterile rigidity about it, which can make it less attractive than the more dynamic, less predictable beauty associated with asymmetry. Although a little asymmetry can...