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...

Abstract:Islamic painting is clearly influenced by the fundamental principles of Islamic thought. Not only this affects the meaning and content but also affects the form and structure of painting influenced the principles of Islamic thought. For example, the Quran as the main reference of Islamic thought expresses Islamic thought about color. We know that the color is the emission of the light ...

A category of religious experience that still preserves much of the original blurring and fusion between art and religion is mediumistic or spirit painting. Performed by spiritualist mediums in different locations around the world, this form of religious experience is characterized by the supposed ability of an individual to serve as an instrument for deceased artists to continue to perform the...

This paper aims to explore the aesthetic development of Chinese traditional landscape painting in contemporary art. Through an in-depth analysis 20 selected artworks from 13th National Art Exhibition, this study reveals key characteristics changes painting, focusing on content update and theme change, innovation techniques expression forms, evolution style features. The findings indicate that p...

The work of painters from the twelfth fifteenth centuries is often discussed in the context of a short treatise on painting materials and methods written by an artist, Cennino Cennini, around 1390. His manual guides us to knowledge of how artists worked, but this very useful text tends to constrain our understanding of the potential richness and diversity of materials available to artists. Micr...

This article examines written records of the now-lost poem-painting scrolls created by Buddhist monks who were active in late Goryeo and early Joseon (the fourteenth through fifteenth centuries) order to reconstruct their artistic exercises reassess significance history East Asian art. The literati painters Yuan China reserved pictorial space landscape painting for narrative or descriptive purp...