Francisco Josè de goya y lucientes (Fig. 1) was a painter endowed with a great expressive capacity. his work, which was carried out between the end of the Seventeenth and the beginning of the Eighteenth Century, covered a period of more than 60 years, with a massive production, a wide range of subjects and numerous techniques, clearly eclectic. oil paintings, etchings, drawings, lithographs wer...

the aim of this study was a sociological analysis of nima’s barf poem, based on shariati’s viewpoints in art by emphasise on sorrow concept. shariati has a critical-utopian approach bout art-society relation. he believes that this approach is available in modern art. his definition of modern art, like to adorno, has an allusion to harbinger art movement in 20 century beginning.  although sharia...

sophisticated culture of the native North Carolina Algonquian Indians he encountered. In 1585, John White returned from ‘Virginia’ with visions of the perfect place to plant the English in the New World. While Raleigh continued preparations for a permanent colony of 115 men, women and children at Chesapeake, John White was appointed governor. But the project failed for lack of supplies and reli...

Ramón y Cajal's studies in the field of neuroscience provoked a radical change in the course of its history. For this reason he is considered as the father of modern neuroscience. Some of his original preparations are housed at the Cajal Museum (Cajal Institute, CSIC, Madrid, Spain). In this article, we catalogue and analyse more than 4,500 of Cajal's histological preparations, the same prepara...

The art world uses the tradition of portraiture to semantically compress relevant information about their subjects into a single art work. We believe this tradition can be extended into the digital realm by the use of topic modeling to compress individuals’ information into generative data portraits. Data portraiture has strong implications for navigating large social spaces, collaborative syst...

Rheumatic conditions have affected, among others, emperors, kings, politicians, religious personages and artists. Knowledge about their articular illnesses has increased with a multiplicity of source documents on these personalities: ancient texts, letters, drawings, paintings, sculptures, songs and pictures. Here the case of the most important Brazilian visual artist is described, namely the s...

To investigate preschoolers' knowledge about symbol systems, we compared the written and drawn productions of 2-5-year-old U.S. children. In Study 1, children (N = 88) wrote and drew four targets, including their own name and a picture of themselves. Children differentiated writings from drawings in the implements they used, the size of their productions, and use of recognizable letters. Some d...

Research indicates a distinction between the processing of script content (which events, behaviors, scenes… are part of it) and script chronology (what is their usual order of occurrence). Using sequences of two line drawings depicting everyday social script events, we examined the event related potential (ERP) correlates of script chronology violations (i.e., wrong order). An increased left an...