“...[T]he sound of water escaping from mill-dams... old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brick work, I love such things.... As long as I do paint, I shall never cease to paint such places. They have always been my delight,” wrote John Constable (1776–1837), English landscape painter and source of inspiration for Constant Troyon and others, who looked for subjects not in the classical or academic...

Pictures can be drawn by hand, or imaged by optical means. Over time, pictures have changed from being rare and unique to ubiquitous and common. They have changed from treasures to transients. This paper summarizes many picture technologies, and discusses their dynamic range, their color and tone-scale rendering and their spatial image processing. High Dynamic Range (HDR) image capture and disp...

With the rise of new digitised technologies at nation-state border, border itself has become more difficult to identify, demanding tools and methods recognize it intervene. In this paper, we explore how artists are being impacted by borders but also they respond, critique interfere. Artists have long been experimenting, breaching, revealing weakness both in term...

Surprisingly, at the beginning of the 15 century a new way of painting suddenly began. Differently from the elegant and graceful gothic style characterized by figures of dignified beauty living within unreal scenarios rich of precious decorations often of pure gold, the scenes became full of passion, of pain, of sentiments, full of life and suffused in the light of a real landscape that emphasi...

We report the most recent advances in The Painting Fool project, where we have integrated machine vision capabilities from the DARCI system into the automated painter, to enhance its abilities before, during and after the painting process. This has enabled new art projects, including a commission from an Artificial Intelligence company, and we report on this collaboration, which is one of the f...

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...

Expressionist Painting: City Landscape City Landscape depicts a nonrepresentational scene.8 A sense of entrapment (or a means of escape) is felt as the applied and colorful paint appears to leak out from the central part of the support. Loosely constructed geometric shapes recall a rock-like surface, which enclose and frame the color within and assist the eye inward toward the colorful scene. E...

Two recent studies suggest that natural scenes and paintings show similar statistical properties. But does the content or region of origin of an artwork affect its statistical properties? We addressed this question by having judges place paintings from a large, diverse collection of paintings into one of three subject-matter categories using a forced-choice paradigm. Basic statistics for images...