there are several studies pertaining to perisian painting which explain its aesthetics on the basis of mysticism and the notion of imaginal world. this point of view bears some methodological problems. some of the prominent scholars (burckhardt, nasr, ringgenberg), refering to ibn arabi’s mystical notions, have tried to show that the specific aesthetics of persian painting has been derived from...

“T are two problems in painting” said American artist Frank Stella (b. 1936) when he was still a brash young man. “One is to fi nd out what painting is, and the other is to fi nd out how to make a painting” (1). Stella’s interest in the defi nition of painting may have refl ected late 19thearly 20th-century modernist concerns. More contemporary concerns focus primarily on how to make a painting...

This study intends to exam Clive Bell’s theory of significant form. For Bell, a painting could not be a work of art if line and color were used to recount anecdotes, express ideas, and indicate the lifestyle of an age. In his influential book Art, Bell claimed that William Powell Frith’s famous narrative painting The Railway Station was not a work of art. This paper used Frith’s painting as the...

texture, one of the important elements in visual arts, is produced in different ways. whereas each painting is a multilayered object, any separate layer can have its own distinct texture. texture can be resulted of inherent nature of artist's depicted materials, such as canvas or support, and it can be, also, produced in the ground or paint layers. in addition, by using of different materi...

In the emerging inter-disciplinary field of art and image processing, algorithms have been developed to assist the analysis of art work. In most applications, especially brush stroke analysis, high resolution digital images of paintings are required to capture subtle patterns and details in the high frequency range of the spectrum. Algorithms have been developed to learn styles of painters from...

painting and art criticism are based on two different semiotic systems. the expression in painting is basically visual and in criticism is verbal. on the other hand, all expression is linguistic, that is expression and comprehension in all semiotic systems is basically linguistic. the art criticism, then, is situated between two poles: visual signs and verbal signs. it has as function to reorga...

Image In-painting, the technique that aims to revert deterioration (scratches, artifacts in photographs and videos) in images in an undetectable form, is as ancient as artistic creation itself. Digital Image In painting, a relatively young research area is an art of filling in the missing or corrupted regions in an image using information from the neighbouring pixels in a visually plausible man...