Since at least 1935, vision researchers have used art stimuli to test human response to
complex scenes. This is sensible given the “inherent interestingness” of art and its relation to …

Recently, statistical techniques have been used to assist art historians in the analysis of
works of art. We present a novel technique for the quantification of artistic style that utilizes a …

What can art tell us about how the brain works? And what can the brain tell us about how we
perceive and create art? Humans have created visual art throughout history and its …

In this paper, we capture and explore the painterly depictions of materials to enable the
study of depiction and perception of materials through the artists' eye. We annotated a …

We have performed a computational color analysis of images of paintings for six master
painters: Titian, Rubens, El Greco, Velázquez, Rembrandt, and Vermeer. These painters …

The field of empirical aesthetics sets out to understand and predict our aesthetic preferences
(Palmer et al., Annual Review of Psychology 64 (1): 77–107, 2013). Its history dates back to …

Factors governing human preference for artwork have long been studied but there remain
many holes in our understanding. Bearing in mind contextual factors (both the conditions …

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 …

In what ways is mammalian vision—and in particular, human vision—efficiently adapted to
its ecology? We suggest that human visual artwork, which is made for the human eye, holds …

While it is difficult to imagine the way someone with mental illness perceives the world,
paintings produced by mental illness sufferers with artistic talents offer a hint of this …