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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"professional artists"”.
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Creativity : psychological and evolutionary perspectives
… by accurately conveying the qualities of the artists. Six male artists each made an artwork and completed a personality inventory and an intelligence test. Fifty-one females rated the artists on creativity, intelligence and personality traits. Whilst intelligence was the only variable that was …
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Aesthetic complexity: practice and perception in art & design
… other types of visual material from students and professional artists, designers and craftspeople. Visual complexity is measured in two ways: Firstly, an objective measure of complexity is based on the compression of digital image files, which provides an information-based scale of order to …
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Motion sculptures : automating artistic visualization of shape and time
… this manual process typically done only by professional artists accessible to novice users and applicable to standard videos. We show results on various scenes involving complex motions such as sports actions and dancing.
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The Songs of Lori Laitman: An Analysis of Sunflowers and Early Snow
… has been recorded and performed by numerous professional artists, and has finally landed the composer an entry in the eminent Grove Dictionary of American Music (which will be added to the 2012 edition).</p><p>Along with a biography of the composer, this paper takes a look at Laitman’s …
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Strategic spaces : towards a genealogy of women artists' groups in Canada
… this thesis looks at the histories of women artists' spaces in Canada Overlooked by predominant texts addressing Canadian art history, these spaces have provided a physical place where many Canadian women artists have gathered to train, exhibit, and support each other as professional artists …
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Designing a moment in time : First Night and Boston's public spaces
… dominated by community arts groups and youth artists rather than professional artists and performers. I frame this discussion by profiling other cities' First Night celebrations and several of Boston's other ephemeral events.
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Neural style transfer for images, videos and reliefs.
For hundred years, artists engage into art creation to present their understanding of subjective and objective world, and their style representations can be inspired from other art- works and followed by other people. To grasp the spirit and styles from artworks, followers have to practice for …
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Charles Roberson, London colourman, and the trade in artists' materials 1820─1939
… his first shop on Long Acre, London, selling artists’ materials. Among his initial customers, comprising mainly amateurs and businesses related to the art trade, the name of Sir Thomas Lawrence, President of the Royal Academy, stands out. His custom is an early indication of the important …
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Artist Colonies in Europe, the United States, and Florida
… Europe. As urban centers housed the majority of professional artists, individuals and groups relocated to remote, bucolic areas to form art colonies. Artist colonies are typically defined as a group of artists, generally painters, writers, and composers who worked and lived as a community for a …
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Enabling young composers through the Vermont MIDI Project: Composition, verbalization and communication
… system maintains musical integrity by involving professional artists, at the same time that it utilizes information and computer technologies in ways that overcome limitations of time and space. Thus, this system suggests alternatives that can help teachers outsource skills and knowledge that …
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Museum making : creating with new technologies in art museums
… that invite audiences-from casual visitors to professional artists and technologists-to take the reins of creative production using emerging technologies. The goals of this thesis are threefold. First, I situate this trend, which I call "museum making," within two historical narratives: the …
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An Investigation into the Potential Creative Applications of Refractory Concrete
… and tackles this deficiency by engaging other professional artists and designers in the form of four case studies. The results of the case studies are evaluated using structured interviews. The practice based elements of the research are combined with quantitive research conducted to …
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Drawn from artists’ lives: An empirical study of the situation and realisation of professional visual art practices in the Western Australian Field of cultural production
… research on the working lives of visual artists living and working in Western Australia. No detailed studies of this kind have previously been undertaken in a Western Australian context, though a series of national, economically framed studies have surveyed Australian artists working in a …
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Creativity, altered states of consciousness and anomalous cognition: the role of epistemological flexibility in the creative process
… (108 females; 101 males). The sample included professional artists (n = 36) and scientists (n = 27). Competing models of a relationship between creativity and ASC-proclivity were assessed: cognitive expansion; affective openness; and motivational impetus. This study provided numerous insights …
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Messages In Bottles: Creative Writing, Distance Learning Pedagogy & Poetics
… into 'autonomous' writers<br/>- The role of professional artists as tutors, writers as artists and teachers, students as learners and apprentice writers<br/>- The development of tutor/student relationships into writer-to-writer relationships<br/>- Language function in creative and educational …