Many artists claim that they could explain nothing about their works, that their paintings came upon them by inspiration. The founder of the abstract art however, Vassily Kandinsky, expresses in the book “Concerning the spiritual in art” his theory of painting and sums up ideas that influenced his contemporaries. He makes the brave prediction that we are fast approaching the time of reasoned an...

Artists with neurological diseases sometimes produce remarkably appealing art. Here we present the art of a patient with Parkinson's disease, who demonstrated remarkable creativity and productivity well into the course of his disease. Despite his manifest motor impairments, he produced paintings and drawings with fluid sinuous movements. He also became preoccupied with his art in an unprecedent...

Abstract This article describes two of the most common natural sources red anthraquinones that have been used since antiquity for textile dyeing and as lake pigments, namely cochineal insect roots Rubia Relbunium plants. Carminic acid is main component carmine, colorant obtained from cochineal. Alizarin purpurin are found in extracts roots, but contain only purpurin. These identified a variety ...

Techinantitla building complex, in the Amanalco neighborhood of ancient city Teotihuacan, is famous for iconography and quality mural paintings found this site. A significant part heritage has been lost due to looting. In recent years, an interdisciplinary research project was developed study limited patrimony that left. As study, we first employed geophysical techniques reconstruct architectur...

sociology of art is one of the branches of sociology that knows art as the reflection of the social, political, economic and cultural processes. this branch of sociology studies artists, artworks, art audiences and the politics of art and culture.the interdisciplinary science of sociology of art refers to the artworks in order to identify societies. therefore, this article is a sociological stu...