Landscapes have been the main theme in Chinese painting for over one thousand years. Chinese ink painting is a form of nonphotorealistic rendering. Terrain is the major subject in Chinese landscape painting, and surface wrinkles are important in conveying the orientation of mountains and contributing to the atmosphere. Over the centuries, masters of Chinese landscape painting have developed var...

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...

the most challenging part of the commission, painting the head and face, was the most trying day for me because I was unable to move my head without upsetting the pose. The artist often consulted the photographs and to my surprise used a tape measure to determine the relationships between various parts of my face. The technique of facial measurement derives from Holbein, the sixteenth century D...

Implicit painting is a non photorealistic rendering method for painting implicit surfaces The method is based on the fact that when a di erence equation is applied to a set of particles these particles will move in D space The motion of the particles is viewed as the motion of the hands of several painters and the trajectories of the particles as long unbroken brush strokes over the implicit su...

We describe a painting machine and associated algorithms. Our modified industrial robot works with visual feedback and applies acrylic paint from a repository to a canvas until the created painting resembles a given input image or scene. The color differences between canvas and input are used to direct the application of new strokes. We present two optimization-based algorithms that place such ...

This paper introduces a novel approach to in-painting where the identity of the object to remove or change is preserved and accounted for at inference time: Exemplar GANs (ExGANs). ExGANs are a type of conditional GAN that utilize exemplar information to produce high-quality, personalized in-painting results. We propose using exemplar information in the form of a reference image of the region t...

The first painting hangs in my family’s living room. If you look at the painting from the bottom up, you see, at first, nothing at all: fully a third of the total surface seems empty; then there is some green; not much at first, but then more and more as you gaze up into a wonderfully simple and distinct landscape: ordinary nature it is. But this is ordinary nature as seen by (1) an arduously s...