Understanding the historical transformation of artistic styles implies the recognition of different stylistic properties. From a computer vision perspective, stylistic properties represent complex ...image features. In our work we explore the use of convolutional neural networks for learning features that are relevant for understanding properties of artistic styles. We focus on stylistic properties described by Heinrich Wölfflin in his book Principles of Art History (1915). Wölfflin identified five key visual principles, each defined by two contrasting concepts. We refer to each principle as one high-level image feature that measures how much each of the contrasting concepts is present in an image. We introduce convolutional neural network regression models trained to predict values of the five Wölfflin’s features. We provide quantitative and qualitative evaluations of those predictions, as well as analyze how the predicted values relate to different styles and artists. The outcome of our analysis suggests that the models learn to discriminate meaningful features that correspond to the visual characteristics of concepts described by Wölfflin. This indicates that the presented approach can be used to enable new ways of exploring fine art collections based on image features relevant and well-known within art history.
The aim of this paper is to identify the risks that need to be addressed when holding fine art, determine which are perceived as being the most important, and whether the risk perception is ...influenced by demographic variables such as age, educational background, and field of occupation. To identify the risks and evaluate the risk perception, we used a purposely designed questionnaire and sent it via various sources of communication systems and applications to individuals knowledgeable on fine arts. Findings revealed that, generally, art deterioration, art fraud, and art theft are the three main highlighted risks, with art deterioration considered in the high-risk range. In terms of risk perception, forgery is the biggest concern. On the other hand, considerations of the investment value of art lessened perceived risk exposure. Furthermore, the study has shown that certain risk perceptions were influenced by the participants' demographic variables. Both the identified risks and risk perception considerations analyzed within this study provide us with insights as to what needs to be considered when offering fine art insurance, particularly when it comes to which risks that are perceived as being the most pressing by potential policyholders, and how these perceptions vary according to individual demographics variables as noted above.
Overview of muographers Tanaka, Hiroyuki K M; Oláh, László
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences,
12/2018, Volume:
377, Issue:
2137
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
By observing the growth of a research community, particularly the factors of size and strength of involvement, it is possible to evaluate the vitality of a new field. The emerging technology of ...muography, a new visualization technique to look through gigantic objects with an elementary particle called the muon, is the focus of this study. Recently, the initial applications of muography to the study of structures such as pyramids and volcanoes have been expanding to include more commercial interests such as inspecting social infrastructures and energy and mineral resources. Evolutions of the research networks of muography will be discussed with particular attention to the chronological and lateral structures that could be an indicator of the development of this new technology.This article is part of the Theo Murphy meeting issue 'Cosmic-ray muography'.
•Mental images in the geometry of art.•Spatial imagery skills and imagery control in fine art students favour the visualisation of geometric figures in artworks.•Spatial ability and image control are ...useful tools to achieve competences in the artistic field.
The study of artistic works requires an educated vision, a certain way of looking that unveils potential relations amongst objects. Fine art students develop skills that are resultant of their training in finding possible connections amongst elements in a painting. One of the abilities related to the observation and analysis of a work of art is the capacity to form mental images. The present study involved 188 fine art students (105 first-year students and 83 fourth-year students) and was meant to find out whether their education level, their spatial imagery ability and their imagery control had any influence on the location of geometric forms in a painting. We assessed hits minus errors. Results showed Results showed that fine arts students’ spatial ability and imagery control explained a significant percentage of score variation in the task of locating geometric figures in Velázquez's paintings. The significance of these results is consistent with those obtained in previous studies, spatial capacity, and imagery control influence on the achievement of skills in the artistic field.
Making images is an essential part of how art therapists learn about clients and explore new ideas. This same process can inform how art therapy researchers first engage with areas of interest for ...studies. A pre-research sketchbook or journal can guide the inquiry as a step prior to the literature review. This article reviews a creative exploration at the British Museum as a means to better understand sensory loss for future study design. The art therapist created a structured sketchbook to guide viewing and responding to prints about vision and hearing in human life. The process revealed interrelations among all the senses, the importance of seeing the whole person, and issues of power and control in the care environment.
This paper discusses constructing 3D modeling process for art and design works using 3D display technology and SIFT feature algorithm. Firstly, the pictures with different angles are obtained by ...changing the geometric information of the graphics and determining their positions in 3D space. Then the lighting model and texture mapping are used to enhance the realism, and the feature points are extracted in combination with the SIFT algorithm to determine the angle of the pictures. An initial 3D model is generated by image silhouette convergence, which corrects the image segmentation several times to complete the modeling. In addition, the study applies the modeling technique to the visualization teaching of art design, and verifies the teaching effect through students’ attitude and practical performance. The results show that most students have positive attitudes towards visualization teaching, especially in Class 2 and Class 15, where the favorite rate reaches 65%. Under this teaching method, students can flexibly utilize the design elements to create diversified art works.
The creators of fine art painting art are often affected by the conceptualization and imagination factors, expression techniques and methods, as well as the influence of theme and subject selection, ...etc., and they are unable to commit themselves to the expression of artistic power and infectious power of fine art painting works. This paper constructs the PLS-SEM and BN combined structural equation model in the context of visual culture, analyzes the latent variables in the path relationship with PLS-SEM for empirical testing, and predicts and diagnoses the causal relationship between the variables with the Bayesian network. Finally, a questionnaire survey was conducted among the major fine art painting art creation groups in Guangzhou, China, and the influence factors of fine art painting creation were extracted using principal component analysis. The constructed model is combined with the collected data for empirical analysis. The β coefficients of the influence paths of the factors are all greater than 0.42 and significant at least at the 0.05 level, and the creative motivation, creative environment, personal artistic level, art industry environment, and painting artistic skill all positively influence the fine art painting artistic creation outcome. When the level of artistic achievement in art painting and drawing is “high”, the probability that the level of the art industry environment and creative environment is high is higher, with probabilities of 0.742 and 0.701. When the level of personal artistic level is “high”, the probability that the level of creative motivation is “high” is greater than 0.42 and significant at least at the 0.05 level. When the individual’s artistic level is “high”, the level of creative motivation is more likely to be “high,” with a probability of 0.726. This study allows the timeliness and dynamics of painting to be harmonized and linked with the painter and provides certain references for the improvement of the artistic skills and creative level of the creator of the painting.
We are taught to believe in originals. In art and architecture in particular, original objects vouch for authenticity, value, and truth, and require our protection and preservation. The nineteenth ...century, however, saw this issue differently. In a culture of reproduction, plaster casts of building fragments and architectural features were sold throughout Europe and America and proudly displayed in leading museums. The first comprehensive history of these full- scale replicas, Plaster Monuments examines how they were produced, marketed, sold, and displayed, and how their significance can be understood today. Plaster Monuments unsettles conventional thinking about copies and originals. As Mari Lending shows, the casts were used to restore wholeness to buildings that in reality lay in ruin, or to isolate specific features of monuments to illustrate what was typical of a particular building, style, or era. Arranged in galleries and published in exhibition catalogues, these often enormous objects were staged to suggest the sweep of history, synthesizing structures from vastly different regions and time periods into coherent narratives. While architectural plaster casts fell out of fashion after World War I, Lending brings the story into the twentieth century, showing how Paul Rudolph incorporated historical casts into the design for the Yale Art and Architecture building, completed in 1963.Drawing from a broad archive of models, exhibitions, catalogues, and writings from architects, explorers, archaeologists, curators, novelists, and artists, Plaster Monuments tells the fascinating story of a premodernist aesthetic and presents a new way of thinking about history's artifacts.
Courting Power, a courtroom-based art installation by Johannah Latchem presented in the Guildhall, Newcastle upon Tyne in 2018 explored how the acoustics and architecture of the unique courtroom at ...the Guildhall silenced or facilitated the voices of those involved in its judicial processes. Artistic and scientific approaches were employed in the investigation of the court's abundant acoustic history and these were linked to a micro-study of the trial and sentence of Margaret Hebbron, a 'woman of the town'. The discussion and analysis of the trial and conviction of Margaret Hebbron were central to the courtroom-based art installation and its development and demonstrate the merits of adopting an integrative approach to encourage resonance, for today's audiences. Both Courting Power, and the discussion in this paper, are cross-disciplinary and draw upon practice-led research in fine art, acoustic science, and legal history.
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