Both natural scenes and visual art are often perceived as esthetically pleasing. It is therefore conceivable that the two types of visual stimuli share statistical properties. For example, natural scenes display a Fourier power spectrum that tends to fall with spatial frequency according to a power-law. This result indicates that natural scenes have fractal-like, scale-invariant properties. In ...

The daylight in classrooms is a crucial aspect that affects the quality of learning environment and overall performance students. Visual arts, such as painting, sculpture, carving, textile design photography, require specific lighting conditions, which are different from regular classroom standards. Due to limited number studies this area, it necessary examine specificities types visual arts pr...

the purpose of this article is to investigate the differences between men and women’s painting regardless of being limited to presuppositions about masculine and feminine art. therefore, first the appearance of differences between men and women art during the eighteenth and nineteenth century is considered. having done that, various types of women’s painting, feminine painting and feminism pain...

Stimulus reduction is an effective way to study visual performance. Cues such as surface characteristics, colour and inner lines can be removed from stimuli, revealing how the change affects recognition and neural processing. An extreme reduction is the removal of the very stimulus, defining it with illusory lines. Perceived boundaries without physical differences between shape and background a...

Pictures don't live in isolation from a context of comprehension and response. According to Gretchen Barbatsis, the notion that meaning is something added to a piece of art has important connotation in the way we conceptualize art. The dynamic understanding of visual interpretation is a mutual process, in which the artwork and the viewer add something to one another. Art conveys meanings, refle...

How does the brain mediate visual artistic creativity? Here we studied behavioral and neural changes in drawing and painting students compared to students who did not study art. We investigated three aspects of cognition vital to many visual artists: creative cognition, perception, and perception-to-action. We found that the art students became more creative via the reorganization of prefrontal...

In this paper we investigate the area requirement of proximity drawings and we prove an exponential lower bound. Our main contribution is to show the existence of a class of Gabriel-drawable graphs that require exponential area for any Gabriel drawing and any resolution rule. The result is further extended to an innnite class of proximity drawings.