Creation and enjoyment of art are human activities universal across time place. It was fitting, then, for the text 1948 Universal Declaration Human Rights to affirm right arts. However, this right, as stated in article 27, is barely mentioned subsequent United Nations covenants declarations. This Article seeks bring enjoy arts, particular visual back into limelight.
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We present an efficient unsupervised approach in finding subjective artist meta-data on the world wide web. Since we are interested in the collective knowledge on artists as available on the web, our method is based on the extraction of information from multiple web pages. We use co-occurrences of pairs of artists on the web to identify similarity between artists. To determine the applicability...

Relationship between genius and mental illness has always been an issue of interest and controversy. Creative people in arts have been more prone to mental illness as compared to the men of science. Asylums of yesteryears in England, France and Spain have had eminent artists such as Hogarth, Dadd, Van Gough and Goya either as residents or as records of the scenes in those hospitals. These relat...

In his “Notes of a Painter,” Henri Matisse states that “[a]ll artists bear the imprint of their time, but the great artists are those in whom this is most profoundly marked.” 1 In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the time of Paul Cézanne and Henri Matisse, industrial and scientific developments transformed the world into a system that could be analyzed and understood through science. 2 T...