There are several artists that have suffered rheumatic diseases. Even then, they continued their creative activity. Paul Klee suffered from systemic sclerosis, Dufy and Renoir suffered from rheumatoid arthritis and Gaudí and Boticelli had systemic-onset juvenile idiopathic arthritis. The famous noucentism sculptor, Manolo Hugué, presented chronic polyarthritis that suggested rheumatoid arthriti...

abstract the shahnameh (the book of kings) is a long epic poem written by the iranian poet ferdowsi between c. 977 and 1010. this literary masterpiece, which tells the mythical and somehow the historical past of the persian empire, was always been the center of attention of the royal courts, the governors, the cultural people, artists and especially the painters. this book is been more than any...

In this work the possible influences of some retinal eye problems on paintings of several famous artists are considered. The change of painting styles and artistic expression in different periods and ages in a group of world-wide well-known painters are described and correlated with known or suspected retinal diseases. Some of them largely became recognizable because of that. Contemplations are...

d for more than three thousand years, Chinese painting emphasizes "implicit meaning", and painters’ using a minimal number of brush strokes to express their deepest feelings. Landscapes of the most important themes in Chinese painting. Trees are the essential painting objects. This resents a set of novel methods to automatically draw trees in Chinese ink painting from 3D al models. Outline rend...

The article constitutes an attempt at developing a new approach to Icelandic national art, supported by analysis of its role in the process constructing “Icelandicness” and identity. It enters dialogue with study Kryptokoloniale landskaber: tid, sted og rum i billeder af islandsk landskab 1874–2011 Ann-Sofie Nielsen Gremaud, concurrent focus on landscape painting period 1874–1944 relation Danis...

I measured preference for paintings (Renoir vs. Picasso or Kandinsky vs. Mondrian) in mice. In general mice did not display a painting preference except for two mice: one preferred Renoir to Picasso, and the other preferred Kandinsky to Mondrian. Thereafter, I examined discrimination of paintings with new mice. When exposure to paintings of one artist was associated with an injection of morphin...