Art is a diverse range of human activities involving the creation of visual, auditory, or performance artifacts that express the creator’s imaginative, conceptual ideas, or technical skill, intended to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power. The various disciplines of art include painting, sculpture, literature, music, dance, and theater, among others. Art serves multiple functions, from aesthetic pleasure to communication of complex ideas and emotions, social commentary, or ritualistic and symbolic purposes. Throughout history, art has played a critical role in culture and society, reflecting and shaping values, beliefs, and narratives. The interpretation and valuation of art are often subjective, deeply influenced by cultural context and individual perspectives, making it a central element in human civilization.
However, human-made art gets more positive reviews. Computers and artificial intelligence (AI) are becoming increasingly important in the art world. AI-generated artworks fetch millions at…
As part of a comprehensive research project in collaboration with the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities and the University of Liège, a global team of researchers…
Scientists from the Rijksmuseum, CNRS, the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, the University of Amsterdam, and the University of Antwerp made a rare discovery of lead…
Effects are comparable to those of going to actual art galleries or even being in nature. Visits to art galleries and museums can have a…
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Fossilized footprints, and more rarely, handprints, can be found around the world left as people went about their daily business, preserved by freak acts of…
Creative exploration followed by exploitation can lead to a career’s greatest hits. Before developing his famed “drip technique,” abstract artist Jackson Pollock dabbled in drawing,…
Research Shows How Language Humanizes AI Intelligent algorithms are used to create paintings, write poems, and compose music. According to a study by an international…
Drawing the Line to Answer Art’s Big Questions Algorithms have shown that the compositional structure of Western landscape paintings changed “suspiciously” smoothly between 1500 and…
Scientific analysis of an ancient portrait pigment reveals long-lost artistic details. How much information can you get from a speck of purple pigment, no bigger…
A Madonna and Child painting with a history almost as enigmatic as the Mona Lisa’s smile has been identified as an authentic Raphael canvas by…
CERN’s Timepix particle detectors, developed by the Medipix2 Collaboration, help unravel the secret of a long-lost painting by the great Renaissance master, Raphael. 500 years…
A new article in the Review of English Studies argues that a manuscript translation of Tacitus’s Annales, completed in the late sixteenth century and preserved…
Artificial intelligence has been used to analyze high-resolution digital x-ray images of the world-famous Ghent Altarpiece, as part of an investigative project led by UCL….
To celebrate NASA’s 60th anniversary this year, the agency partnered with the National Symphony Orchestra to present a concert in Washington entitled “NSO Pops: Space,…
An international partnership of the Northwestern University/Art Institute of Chicago Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts (NU-ACCESS), the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) and…
A careful study of ancient artifacts in Italy has pushed back the earliest documented appearance of orchids from the Renaissance to Roman times. The orchid’s…
Da Vinci’s famous painting “The Last Supper” has managed to survive to this day, though it has faced its share of threats for centuries. (Surviving…