From the ancient times, there are three basic approaches for the interpretation of the different psychic phenomena: the organic, the psychological, and the sacred approach. The sacred approach forms the primordial foundation for any psychopathological development, innate to the prelogical human mind. Until the second millennium B.C., the Great Mother ruled the Universe and shamans cured the dif...

We conducted a year long survey of the fruit-feeding butterfly fauna of sacred forest groves and forest reserves of Ghana. About one-third of all fruit-feeding species recorded for Ghana were trapped, but our total sample had not yet reached the point of species saturation. Rarefied species richness was higher in the larger forest reserves than in the small sacred groves, as predicted by specie...

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...

Landscapes have been the main theme in Chinese painting for over one thousand years. Chinese ink painting is a form of nonphotorealistic rendering. Terrain is the major subject in Chinese landscape painting, and surface wrinkles are important in conveying the orientation of mountains and contributing to the atmosphere. Over the centuries, masters of Chinese landscape painting have developed var...

Emotional responses to art have long been subject of debate, but only recently have they started to be investigated in affective science. The aim of this study was to compare perceptions regarding frequency of aesthetic emotions, contributing factors, and motivation which characterize the experiences of looking at painting and listening to music. Parallel surveys were filled in online by partic...

the most challenging part of the commission, painting the head and face, was the most trying day for me because I was unable to move my head without upsetting the pose. The artist often consulted the photographs and to my surprise used a tape measure to determine the relationships between various parts of my face. The technique of facial measurement derives from Holbein, the sixteenth century D...

Most of us tend to think of geometry as a relatively dry, if not altogether boring, subject remembered from our Middle school years, consisting of endless axioms, definitions, postulates and proofs, hearkening back, in fact, to the methodology of , in form and structure a masterly Euclids Elements exposition of logical thinking and mental training but not the most thrilling read one might under...