Appearance Space Texture Synthesis (ASTS) provides fast texture synthesis by example. Unfortunately, speed is only achieved at the cost of a long pre-processing step. This is tedious for artists and limits the input resolution. In addition, the aggressively pruned search space results in strong artifacts when synthesizing multiple textures under user guidance (Texture-By-Numbers, TBN). In this ...

“We hear that there are charming things inside, but respectful of the privacy of these ‘homes’ of artists, we have not spoken of them” (L’Architecture 1925: 436). such restraint— more typical of an architectural journal than of the popular press—did not last long. By the end of the decade, even specialized journals like L’Architecture were illustrating the interiors of the homes of artists who ...

Lead poisoning (saturnism) has been present throughout the history of mankind. In addition to possible ingestion from contaminated food, one of the most important ways in which poisoning caused morbid processes was by occupational exposure. This exposition was pandemic in the Roman Empire, and it has been claimed that it contributed to its fall, but it also caused numerous epidemics in Western ...

The schema which decorated the cover of Alfred H. Barr's catalogue for the exhibition Cubism and Abstract Art at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1936 is paradigmatic of the way modern art has been mapped by modernist art history [2]. All those canonized as the initiators of modern art are men. Is this because there were no women involved in early modern movements? No.' Is it because thos...

On the walls of the Museum there hangs a picture symbolic of one of the strangest phenomena in the history of modern art. It shows five painters gathered in a studio. One is commenting on a drawing by a second, while the other three look up from their work to listen. Painted in London during 1765 by the Pennsylvaniaborn portraitist Matthew Pratt, the canvas was exhibited a year later at the Soc...

The article is devoted to the peculiarities of functioning theme childhood and its relationship with inner world artists late 19 – early 20 centuries in journal “World Art”. author believes that children's topic magazine was expressed various forms. children’s presented form reproductions demonstrate publishers’ sympathy for images children certain artists. Children's appear as illustrations Li...

Among various traditional art forms, brush stroke drawing is one of the widely used styles in modern computer graphic tools such as GIMP, Photoshop and Painter. In this paper, we develop an AI-aided art authoring (A4) system of nonphotorealistic rendering that allows users to automatically generate brush stroke paintings in a specific artist’s style. Within the reinforcement learning framework ...

The article deals with curatorial projects, international biennials and the participation of local artists, their achievements impact renewal process on art in general, which entered modern fine arts Uzbekistan late twentieth early twenty-first centuries. In this process, our artists have adapted to growing interest world trends, new postmodern trends Western aesthetics, general environment for...

esfarzeh is a name used for two species of plantago genus, belonging to plantaginaceae family. in the iranian traditional medicine (itm) texts, esfarzeh is called bazreghatuna, and have different therapeutic effects including treatment of hoarseness of chest, pharynx, and tongue warm palpitation constipation caused by bile abdominal cramps gastric and intestinal ulcers arthralgia solid edema an...