A novel approach to the production of evolutionary art is presented. This approach is based on the promotion of an arms race between an adaptive classifier and an evolutionary computation system. An artificial neural network is trained to discriminate among images previously created by the evolutionary engine and famous paintings. Once training is over, evolutionary computation is used to gener...

The 19 th century was a time when, as noted by Michael Thimann, there occurred transition of painting from the sphere worship to space art. parting paths art and sacred also affected genre important for connecting these spheres altar painting. present paper discusses Henryk Siemiradzki’s paintings, which constitute this outstanding academic artist’s attempts place intended in churches. Siemirad...

Artists have long explored the way in which we see the world, and they have developed their own tools to portray their vision. The present study investigated whether the compositional information in paintings, an artistic device invented by artists, is utilized when people view paintings. In Experiment 1, we categorized paintings depending on their compositions through experts' ratings. Using t...

A series of enigmatic ninthor tenth-century wall paintings from Nishapur in eastern Iran seems to have been imbued with amuletic, apotropaic, or talismanic properties. Recapitulating while exaggerating some of the properties of marble, the paintings also include anthropomorphic and vegetal imagery. Their idiosyncratic iconography seems to highlight a tension between physis and technē that may b...

Several studies have investigated neural correlates of aesthetic appreciation for paintings but to date the findings have been heterogeneous. This heterogeneity may be attributed to previous studies' measurement of aesthetic appreciation of not only the beauty of paintings but also the beauty of motifs of the paintings. In order to better elucidate the beauty of paintings, it seems necessary to...

Visual stylometry is the task of quantifying artistic style in the visual arts. In this paper we present a method for visual stylometry of paintings from digital reproductions. Our method is framed around modelling contourlet transforms of the digital reproductions with hidden Markov models. Using the contourlet transform in the field of classification is a new approach motivated by the contour...

The visual arts have for hundreds of years presented viewers with images that have been more or less representational of the external world. In fact, many of these images have been such convincing representations of the world that they can fool the viewer into thinking that the representation is in fact reality or a photograph, and not paint on a canvas. Examples of such trompe I’oeil (fool the...