Painting

Abstract: The diversity of painting styles represents a rich visual vocabulary for the construction of an image The degree to which one may learn and parsimoniously capture this visual vocabulary measures our understanding of the higher level features of paintings, if not images in general In this work we investigate the construction of a single, scalable deep network that can parsimoniously capture the artistic style of a diversity of paintings We demonstrate that such a network generalizes across a diversity of artistic styles by reducing a painting to a point in an embedding space Importantly, this model permits a user to explore new painting styles by arbitrarily combining the styles learned from individual paintings We hope that this work provides a useful step towards building rich models of paintings and offers a window on to the structure of the learned representation of artistic style

Abstract: This is the first of two volumes of the only English edition of Hegel's Aesthetics, the work in which he gives full expression to his seminal theory of art. The substantial Introduction is his best exposition of his general philosophy of art. In Part I he considers the general nature of art as a spiritual experience, distinguishes the beauty of art and the beauty of nature, and examines artistic genius and originality. Part II surveys the history of art from the ancient world through to the end of the eighteenth century, probing the meaning and significance of major works. Part III (in the second volume) deals individually with architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and literature; a rich array of examples makes vivid his exposition of his theory.

Abstract: Introduction by the editor the painter of modern life Edgar Allan Poe - his life and works further notes on Edgar Poe Wagner and Tannhauser in Paris on the essence of laughter some French caricaturists some foreign caricaturists a philosophy of toys philosophic art