In this paper, we explore the affective contents of Impressionism paintings. While past analysis of artworks concentrated on artistic concept annotation, like styles and periods, a more perceptual aspect is to investigate the emotions artists projected into. We propose affective space to fuse all affective factors from features. Since the combination of colors is more sensitive and intuitive to...

Starting from the possibility of a ‘global’ account style, this essay examines consequences idea post-impressionism. Around 1910, Roger Fry drew on histories world art and international historiography to cast post-impressionism as putatively universal, style that was not just new development, but rediscovery natural form artistic creation. Seen way, also had potential go global: have causal rol...

Gustave Caillebotte was a painter, a collector of some of his colleagues' most renowned works, and a major force in the creation of the late 19th century French Impressionist canon. Six studies are presented as a naturalistic investigation of the effects of mere exposure to images in his collection and to those matched to them. The probabilities of cultural exposure to the 132 stimulus images w...

Peter Carruthers, the scientist, was a man of remarkable mathematical and physical culture. He had also something which is less common now a days, namely a profound physical intuition which guided him to approach in an original way the most interesting problems at a given moment and in this way he became a guide also for others. Multiparticle dynamics being by definition a many-body problem, it...

Editor’s Note: In this column, teachers who are currently using literary and artistic materials as part of their curricula will briefly summarize specific works, delineate their purposes and goals in using these media, describe their audience and teaching strategies, discuss their methods of evaluation, and speculate about the impact of these teaching tools on learners (and teachers). Submissio...

Ukiyo had a profound influence on western painting in the 19th century. It can be seen from works of Artists such as Monet and Van Gogh that they extensively used, imitated improved Japanese techniques brushwork, composition color. In addition, under historical background social environment at time, expression thoughts emotions was also greatly influenced by Ukiyo. This paper, starting origin c...