Questions tagged [art]
Pertaining to the area of human accomplishments in which intangible creative elements are applied to produce the final product. Can pertain to the production, interpretation or appreciation of works created to evoke specific emotional responses, such as in painting or music.
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Is Eşref Armağan an eyeless painter?
There are a number of articles online about a blind, Turkish painter, Eşref Armağan. born without eyes, including a short Wikipedia entry. Purportedly, he's able to create paintings with color and ...
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Is golden ratio the most aesthetically pleasing ratio? [duplicate]
I have read several claims in all kinds of literature (both scientific, less scientific and downwards anti-scientific) about golden ratio and its "aesthetics".
However, all the "proofs" I have seen ...
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Restoration of Jesus fresco a fake?
The story goes:
A devout Spanish woman is being roundly criticized after taking it
upon herself to restore a church fresco of Jesus, a ham-fisted attempt
that left the piece looking like a ...
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Is this hand-in-shirt gesture Masonic?
I've got casual acquaintances linking to things on Twitter about how this gesture of sticking your hand in your shirt in your formal portrait is actually Masonic.
Without worrying about how much the ...
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Does Denver International Airport display murals of conquering stormtroopers and dead children?
Some people experience unease going through the airport, and it seems best to provide something soothing and uncontroversial to look at while walking to the aircraft .... like advertising.
Certainly ...
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Is there a relationship between yellow and moods?
A commonly held belief in visual arts and graphic design is that colours communicate specific moods.
Let's concentrate on the colour yellow, for example here:
The color yellow gives one a warm and ...
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Were the pyramids at Puma Punku built by humans?
According to the TV show Ancient Aliens (clip here), humans could not have designed or built the pyramids at Puma Punku.
The specific claims in the video are that:
The blocks used in construction ...
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Does camera flash destroy art?
This is a question which is highly discussed on the Internet but I've been researching for a long time and I've never found any scientific proof backing this up.
It's known (or at least spoken of) ...
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Is the depiction of nudity or sex harmful to minors?
In other words, are the censorship & ratings of movies and other forms of art based on something more than nothing? ;) Or, in a broader sense, I am questioning the very widespread belief that kids ...
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Is Mr. Brainwash a hoax?
I just finished watching Banksy's documentary, Exit Through the Gift Shop, about Thierry Guetta (a.k.a. "Mr. Brainwash"), an eccentric filmmaker who followed the street art scene until eventually ...
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Was the golden ratio deliberately used for aesthetics in ancient or Renaissance times?
It's a famous claim that the golden ratio was both known to and deliberately used by artists and/or architects, for example in the Parthenon. I doubt this, and suspect that any observations about the ...
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