Artistic painting of human portraits are more challenging than landscapes or flowers. Challenges are eye and nose areas where we need to avoid alterations from their natural appearance. Shades or darkness around eyes, or shininess at the nose tip may negatively impact the rendering result if not properly dealt with. The proposed computerized method attempts to be adaptive to those sensitive are...

From art portraits, the observer may derive at least two different hedonic values: The attractiveness of the depicted person and the artistic beauty of the image that relates to the way of presentation. We argue that attractiveness is a property that is predominantly driven by perceptual processes, while the perception of artistic beauty is based predominantly on cognitive processing. To test t...

The subject of the study are frescoes created in cities Krakow and Lodz, where contemporary underground artists address theme Judaism. purpose work is to investigate specificity artistic-figurative component murals which indicates an appeal historical events associated with Jewish population Poland. methodology based on principle scientific reliability completeness; philosophical, historical, c...

This article examines intertextuality of artistic texts postmodern discourse in the aspect linguosemiotic research; defines as a text category that occupies one central places among other categories; summarizes and systematizes functioning precedent names texts; considers special semantic focus intertextual connections on example names; highlights changes idea ​​artistic homogeneous structures,...

There are hypotheses in the history of human culture and civilization in which we can find undeniable similarities and commonalities among them, despite their vastly different cultural and historical contexts. For example, finding commonalities between the language of two artistic aesthetic hypotheses, Sufism and Surrealism, which are very different from each other in terms of context, time as ...

It never quite seems right to place Russian artistic culture along the same lines of development as those in the West. Without endlessly musing over the involvement of some inconceivable Russian soul or national character, this paper aims to create a narrative for the development of contemporary Russian art exhibition. By looking at the historical and contemporary societal conditions surroundin...