Natural scenes tend to be biased in both scale (1/f) and orientation (H> V≫ O; horizontal>
vertical≫ oblique), and the human visual system has similar biases that serve to partially …

Paintings are the product of a process that begins with ordinary vision in the natural world
and ends with manipulation of pigments on canvas. Because artists must produce images …

One hypothesis to explain the aesthetics of paintings is that it depends on the extent to
which they mimic natural image statistics. In fact, paintings and natural scenes share several …

Two recent studies suggest that natural scenes and paintings show similar statistical
properties. But does the content or region of origin of an artwork affect its statistical …

Frames provide a visual link between artworks and their surround. We asked how image
properties change as an observer zooms out from viewing a painting alone, to viewing the …

We asked whether “good composition” or “visual rightness” of artworks manifest themselves
in a particular arrangement of basic image features, such as oriented luminance edges …

We investigated in “art-naïve” German and Chinese participants the perception of color and
spatial balance in abstract art. For color perception, we asked participants (a) to adjust the …

Walking around an art museum we can see how colours influence our aesthetic
preferences: many great works of art would not be as impressive in grey scales. Is the …

A series of four experiments were conducted to examine viewer perceptions of three sets of
five nonrepresentational paintings. Increased complexity was embedded in the hierarchical …

What makes two images look similar? Here we test the hypothesis that perceived similarity
of artwork is related to basic image statistics to which the early visual system is attuned. In …