Geoffrey Miller has hypothesized that producing artwork functions as a mating display. Here we investigate the relationship between mating success and artistic success in a sample of 236 visual artists. Initially, we derived a measure of artistic success that covered a broad range of artistic behaviors and beliefs. As predicted by Miller's evolutionary theory, more successful male artists had m...

Modern dönemde mistik düşünce geleneklerinin Batı Avrupa sanatına olan etkisi görünürlük kazanmış hatta
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Targeted user studies are often employed to measure how well artists can perform specific tasks. But these studies cannot properly describe editing workflows as wholes, since they guide the artists both by choosing the tasks and by using simplified interfaces. In this paper, we investigate digital sculpting workflows used to produce detailed models. In our experiment design, artists can choose ...

Although executive functions have been widely studied in individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), there have been no direct empirical studies of executive abilities in savants with ASD. This study assessed three facets of executive ability – fluency, perseveration and monitoring – in savant artists with ASD, compared to nontalented adults with ASD or moderate learning difficulties (MLD...

We interviewed 13 female machinima artists to investigate the appeal of machinima for women. Are there any specific qualities of this game-based production that speak to those women? The research looked at engine use, personal situation of artists and motivation, production processes, and dominant themes in female produced machinima. Our findings indicate that machinima as a form of emergent pl...

Manifold approaches exist for organization of music by genre and/or style. In this paper we propose the use of text categorization techniques to classify artists present on the Internet. In particular, we retrieve and analyze webpages ranked by search engines to describe artists in terms of word occurrences on related pages. To classify artists we primarily use support vector machines. We prese...

There is no better way to introduce this delightful book by Hyatt Mayor, Curator of Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 1946-66, than to quote the opening sentences of the author's own short preface: "Histories of anatomy exist in sufficient quantity, so this essay revolves around two questions only: What have artists done to record dissections and so help anatomists to see? And what, in t...

Copper phthalocyanine (CuPc) provides the most important blue and green pigments from the 21st century artists’ paints. This paper focuses on the blue pigments of CuPc, which are referenced in the Colour Index as PB15. The employment of PB15 as artists’ pigments since the very beginning until now is summarized through archives of artists’ color makers and current color charts. Moreover, for the...

Artists have different parameters to, for example, colour scientists, for considering the quality of the finished image. An analysis of the work is based on an artist's conception of the work and a subjective assessment of print surface, colour and image quality, which although may appear to be based on the same criteria as a reproduction, the impact on the viewer is quite different. This prese...