the aim of this article is to show social characteristics of modernist painters in iran. the main question is whether or not a stable pattern can be reached in order to show the effects of social factors on people to become artists. in order to find the answer, it is necessary to introduce social characteristics of iranian modernist painters. this article is theoretically related to the field o...

this article is written from sociology of art point of view. the role of social factors influencing people to become artist is an important issue in this field. one of these social factors is one’s gender which is studied here. in this article female artists are studied in terms of their appearance in different artistic fields. the main factor important in this appearance is regarded to be gend...

This research was conducted to compare visuospatial skills in male and female artists and non-artists. Twenty artists (10 males and 10 females) and 20 non-artists (10 males and 10 females) were tested for accuracy and reaction time in a lateralized three-dimensional mental rotation task. Males had significantly fewer errors than females, which is consistent with previous research, but this main...