A method of shape generation using shape grammars which take shape as primitive and have shape-specific rules is presented. A formalism for the complete, generative specification of a class of non-representational, geometric paintings or sculptures is defined which has shape grammars as its structural component. Paintings are material representations of two-dimensional shapes gen~rated by shape...

In a recent editorial I stated ~hat I am not much of a collector. ] At one time, all I collected was saxophone recordings. However, a few years ago I started to collect Huichol Indian yarn paintings. I now have a sizable collection, My friend Anne Geary introduced me to the craft of these Mexican Indians. It was through her that I met Olga and Bob Brooks, from whom I buy the paintings. They run...

Paintings are usually paintings of things: a room in a palace, a princess, a dog. But what would it be to paint not those things, but the experience of seeing those things? Las Meninas is sufficiently sophisticated and masterfully executed to help us explore this question. Of course, there are many kinds of paintings: some abstract, some conceptual, some with more traditional subjects. Let us s...

Time perception can be affected by real emotional pictures of people that evoke different levels of arousal. Figurative artwork images of body postures that imply movement with different intensities and evoke different levels of arousal can modulate the perception of time. The present study investigated whether abstract paintings that represent motion in different ways affect the perception of ...

When creating an artwork, the artist makes a decision regarding the orientation at which the work is to be hung based on their aesthetic judgement and the message conveyed by the piece. Is the impact or aesthetic appeal of a work diminished when it is hung at an incorrect orientation? To investigate this question, Experiment 1 asked whether naïve observers can appreciate the correct orientation...

This demonstration challenges the conventional art experience. It brings together the fields of art, science, and software integration. The goal was to create a new kind of painting based on embedded technology, experimenting with a new media: paintings augmented with RFIDs. The aim was to achieve interaction between the artist's paintings and art gallery visitors.

Parataxis is the main grammatical feature of Chinese sentences while hypotaxis is the main grammatical feature of English. Similarly, Chinese classical paintings stress on the psychological harmony of subject-object unity and Western classical paintings on extrinsic form. It is found that the aesthetic thinking of classical painting is reflected in English and Chinese syntactic structure.

The abstract paintings of Piet Mondrian and Jackson Pollock are traditionally regarded as representing opposite ends of the diverse visual spectrum of Modern Art. In this article, I present an overview of recent scientific research that investigates the enduring visual appeal of these paintings.

by regarding the rest of pictorial and written documents of sassanid and sogdian art – sogdiana was one of the states under the supervision of sassanid emperors at many different period - this research is going tosurvey the effects of sassanid art on the sogdian mural paintings; the statistic category of this research is 3 sample of sassanid stone relief and mural painting as well as 6 sample o...