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...

DTD culture/painting −−> WorkOfArt culture/painting −−> painter/painting culture/painting/title −−> WorkOfArt/title culture/painting/title −−> painter/painting/name culture/painting/author −−> WorkOfArt/artist/name culture/painting/author −−> painter culture/painting/museum −−> WorkOfArt/gallery culture/painting/museum −−> painter/painting/location 2 concrete DTDs of the "art" cluster Some mapp...

Implicit painting is a non photorealistic rendering method for painting implicit surfaces The method is based on the fact that when a di erence equation is applied to a set of particles these particles will move in D space The motion of the particles is viewed as the motion of the hands of several painters and the trajectories of the particles as long unbroken brush strokes over the implicit su...

considering native modernism existence, iranian constitutional revolution can be contemplated as an exordium for cultural transition because constitutionalism movement played a significant role in transferring modern concepts to iran. this kind of perception about modernism oversees the experimental and practical events, and also provides the opportunity to survey art system shift in the contex...