Pop Life, Art in a Material World.

A Comparative S‌tudy on Pop, Elite and Folk Art

Pop Art is the representative of a cultural identity that has been represented as a kind of art in the mid-twentieth century. It is based on the ordinary manifes‌tations of people’s lives, and by concentrating on media and propaganda it has become pervasive in a short time as if it is a newly emerged culture that has appeared not from the inside of community but from outside and by those sociol...

The Significance of Traditional Islamic Art for the Life of Muslim Societies in the Modern World

Material efficiency in a multi-material world.

Material efficiency--using less of a material to make a product or supply a service--is gaining attention as a means for accomplishing important environmental goals. The ultimate goal of material efficiency is not to use less physical material but to reduce the impacts associated with its use. This article examines the concept and definition of material efficiency and argues that for it to be a...

Art and life embracement in a symbolic realism

Realism not only has introduced way of thinking but also has discussed a different way of expression in mid-nineteenth century in west and despite its existence has experienced new forms during its stages of development and metamorphosis. Symbolic realism has been discussed as a realistic technique in art and literature style within this through this method, realism and symbolism make contradic...

Evolving Pop Art Using Scalable Vector Graphics

In this paper we present our findings of our continued investigation into the use of Scalable Vector Graphics as a genotype representation in evolutionary art. In previous work we investigated the feasibility of SVG as a genetic representation for evolutionary art, and found that the representation was very flexible, but that the potential visual output was somewhat limited by the simplicity of...