Paintings and Sculptures: Where Do We Look First?

Paintings and Sculptures: Where Do We Look First?

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  • Author: Magali Seille
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 3031311353
  • Category : Technology & Engineering
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 145

The book presents three studies in which eye tracking data were collected at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rouen in June and July 2013. Overall, the results of those three studies highlight the knowledge gained from the analysis of the very first saccade in a museum context, when people look at paintings and statues. The first study analyzes how viewers orient their first saccade on paintings. This study shows that, in a museum, the first saccade is attracted toward the center of paintings. This attraction toward the paintings’ center is found in all the subjects’ groups that we have studied. Noteworthily, this effect is significantly less pronounced in individuals who never visit museums. It is among amateurs, who often visit museums, that the center attracts the most the first saccade. Among experts, painters or art history teachers, and to a lesser extent among amateurs, the pictorial composition largely determines the orientation of the first saccade. We indeed found that, as soon as the first saccade, experts orient their gaze toward the main subject. This phenomenon seems to be explained by the fact that experts immediately orient their gaze (here measured as the first saccade) toward the paintings’ location conveying the most meaning. It can either be the center, or a peripheral area, depending on whether the paintings’ most meaningful subject is located centrally or peripherally. The second study shows that the center does not attract the first saccade in 5-year-old children. This behavior appears later, in 8- to 10-year-old children. However, noticeably, the 8–10-year-old children orient significantly less frequently their first saccade toward the paintings’ center as adults do, and this is also true when one considers non-expert adult viewers. The results of the third study focus on statues and reveal a very different oculomotor behavior: Indeed, rather than looking at the center, statues’ viewers exhibit a clear tendency to saccade first at the statues’ contours. This stands in contrast with the behavior that we observe with paintings. Our study concludes that statues trigger a specific oculomotor behavior. The latter appears to be mostly driven by the physical presence that stone bodies incarnate. The movement and the climax of this movement, that sculptors manage to convey, thus turn out to attract the gaze in a unique fashion. The book concludes that the first saccade is a powerful indicator of the oculomotor behavior that greatly improves our comprehension of the unique relationship between a viewer and artworks.


Authority and Freedom

Authority and Freedom

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  • Author: Jed Perl
  • Publisher: Knopf
  • ISBN: 0593320050
  • Category : Art
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 177

From one of our most widely admired art critics comes a bold and timely manifesto reaffirming the independence of all the arts—musical, literary, and visual—and their unique and unparalleled power to excite, disturb, and inspire us. As people look to the arts to promote a particular ideology, whether radical, liberal, or conservative, Jed Perl argues that the arts have their own laws and logic, which transcend the controversies of any one moment. “Art’s relevance,” he writes, “has everything to do with what many regard as its irrelevance.” Authority and Freedom will find readers from college classrooms to foundation board meetings—wherever the arts are confronting social, political, and economic ferment and heated debates about political correctness and cancel culture. Perl embraces the work of creative spirits as varied as Mozart, Michelangelo, Jane Austen, Henry James, Picasso, and Aretha Franklin. He contends that the essence of the arts is their ability to free us from fixed definitions and categories. Art is inherently uncategorizable—that’s the key to its importance. Taking his stand with artists and thinkers ranging from W. H. Auden to Hannah Arendt, Perl defends works of art as adventuresome dialogues, simultaneously dispassionate and impassioned. He describes the fundamental sense of vocation—the engagement with the tools and traditions of a medium—that gives artists their purpose and focus. Whether we’re experiencing a poem, a painting, or an opera, it’s the interplay between authority and freedom—what Perl calls “the lifeblood of the arts”—that fuels the imaginative experience. This book will be essential reading for everybody who cares about the future of the arts in a democratic society.


The Artist Project

The Artist Project

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  • Author: Christopher Noey
  • Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • ISBN: 0714873543
  • Category : Art
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 274

Artists have long been stimulated and motivated by the work of those who came before them—sometimes, centuries before them. Interviews with 120 international contemporary artists discussing works from The Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection that spark their imagination shed new light on art-making, museums, and the creative process. Images of works from The Met collection appear alongside images of the contemporary artists' work, allowing readers to discover a rich web of visual connections that spans cultures and millennia.


Nima

Nima

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  • Author: Ross Tran
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9781733843812
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 174

NIMA is a fantasy tale following a prodigious young woman as she sets out on an epic journey to protect those she loves most: family. As Nima travels to new lands filled with spirits, demons, friends, and enemies, she discovers her quest has more at stake than she first realized.This illustrated narrative is created by Ross Tran, known as RossDraws.


Altered Art for the First Time

Altered Art for the First Time

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  • Author: Madeline Arendt
  • Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
  • ISBN: 9781402716553
  • Category : Crafts & Hobbies
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 124

A guide to altered art which is the refashioning of any object, giving the object a new purpose or look, with the idea, to personalize the item in some fashion.


Twenty-first-century Perspectives on Nineteenth-century Art

Twenty-first-century Perspectives on Nineteenth-century Art

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  • Author: Petra ten-Doesschate Chu
  • Publisher: Associated University Presse
  • ISBN: 0874130115
  • Category : Art
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 289

"This book presents an interdisciplinary and inclusive view of nineteenth-century art, observed from the vantage point of the new twenty-first century. The areas of expertise represented by the thirty essays herein span the full range of nineteenth-century studies, and include discussions of such artistic styles as realism, impressionism, romanticism, and art nouveau, as well as early twentieth-century movements that owe their formative influence to the nineteenth century. Topics span the historical gamut from revivalism to the roots of modernism, considering along the way such themes as the depiction of women, Orientalism, art criticism, evolutionary theory, political propaganda, history painting, landscape, and national identity. Aspects of art display, public monuments, and international exhibitions shed light on the roles of government and individuals in the dissemination of artistic styles and subject matter. Unique in this collection is an emphasis on the marketing of art, both in America and abroad, which considers the important financial and commercial issues that continue to influence viewers' beliefs and perceptions. Most important, this book demonstrates that the rich field of nineteenth-century studies continues to inspire discovery and creativity."--Publisher description.


Crosscurrents in Australian First Nations and Non-Indigenous Art

Crosscurrents in Australian First Nations and Non-Indigenous Art

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  • Author: Sarah Scott
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISBN: 1000924742
  • Category : Art
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 229

This edited collection examines art resulting from cross-cultural interactions between Australian First Nations and non-Indigenous people, from the British invasion to today. Focusing on themes of collaboration and dialogue, the book includes two conversations between First Nations and non-Indigenous authors and an historian’s self-reflexive account of mediating between traditional owners and an international art auction house to repatriate art. There are studies of ‘reverse appropriation‘ by early nineteenth-century Aboriginal carvers of tourist artefacts and the production of enigmatic toa. Cross-cultural dialogue is traced from the post-war period to ‘Aboriginalism’ in design and the First Nations fashion industry of today. Transculturation, conceptualism, and collaboration are contextualised in the 1980s, a pivotal decade for the growth of collaborative First Nations exhibitions. Within the current circumstances of political protest in photographic portraiture and against the mining of sacred Aboriginal land, Crosscurrents in Australian First Nations and Non-Indigenous Art testifies to the need for Australian institutions to collaborate with First Nations people more often and better. This book will appeal to students and scholars of art history, Indigenous anthropology, and museum and heritage studies.


Art for Art's Sake

Art for Art's Sake

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  • Author: John Charles Van Dyke
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Painting
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 322


Collage in Twentieth-Century Art, Literature, and Culture

Collage in Twentieth-Century Art, Literature, and Culture

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  • Author: Dr Rona Cran
  • Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
  • ISBN: 1472430964
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 265

Emphasizing the diversity of collage in the twentieth century, Rona Cran's book explores the role that it played in the work of Joseph Cornell, William Burroughs, Frank O'Hara, and Bob Dylan. Collage's catalytic effect, Cran argues, enabled each to overcome a crisis in representation that threatened to destabilize their work. Throughout, she shows that rigid definitions of collage severely limit our understanding of artists and writers who used it in non-traditional ways.


The Museum of Modern Art First Loan Exhibition New York November 1929

The Museum of Modern Art First Loan Exhibition New York November 1929

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  • Author:
  • Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art
  • ISBN:
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 160