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.


Fay

Fay

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  • Author: William Wegman
  • Publisher: Hyperion
  • ISBN: 9780786864867
  • Category : Art
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

With family photos, video and film stills, and studio photos never before published, Fay captures the collaborative spirit and amazing artistic outpouring of Wegman and his extraordinary companion. Their relationship spanned ten years during which time Fay became as well known to the art world as her canine predecessor, Man Ray. Motherhood brought Fay new concerns and Wegman a wealth of new characters. In 1989 she was joined in the studio by three of her puppies. What followed was a flowering of dramatic roles for Fay and her offspring in a wide range of books and videos for children.


The Art Direction Handbook for Film & Television

The Art Direction Handbook for Film & Television

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  • Author: Michael Rizzo
  • Publisher: CRC Press
  • ISBN: 1317673700
  • Category : Performing Arts
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 543

In this new and expanded edition of The Art Direction Handbook, author Michael Rizzo now covers art direction for television, in addition to updated coverage of film design. This comprehensive, professional manual details the set-up of the art department and the day-to-day job duties: scouting for locations, research, executing the design concept, supervising scenery construction, and surviving production. Beyond that, there is an emphasis on not just how to do the job, but how to succeed and secure other jobs. Rounding out the text is an extensive collection of useful forms and checklists, as well as interviews with prominent art directors.


The Edinburgh Review

The Edinburgh Review

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  • Category : Great Britain
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 572


World War I and American Art

World War I and American Art

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  • Author: Robert Cozzolino
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press
  • ISBN: 0691172692
  • Category : Art
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 320

-World War I and American Art provides an unprecedented look at the ways in which American artists reacted to the war. Artists took a leading role in chronicling the war, crafting images that influenced public opinion, supported mobilization efforts, and helped to shape how the war's appalling human toll was memorialized. The book brings together paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, posters, and ephemera, spanning the diverse visual culture of the period to tell the story of a crucial turning point in the history of American art---


Addresses and Proceedings - National Education Association of the United States

Addresses and Proceedings - National Education Association of the United States

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  • Author: National Education Association of the United States
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 1240

Vols. for 1866-70 include Proceedings of the American Normal School Association; 1866-69 include Proceedings of the National Association of School Superintendents; 1870 includes Addresses and journal of proceedings of the Central College Association.


The Great Art of Government

The Great Art of Government

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  • Author: Peter Josephson
  • Publisher:
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  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 392

Moving beyond previous scholarship, he gives us a Locke as much concerned with the effective functioning of government as with the roots of its moral legitimacy."--BOOK JACKET.