Abstraction

Computer Vision is commonly studied in three categories according to the degree of abstraction from the image: low-level, mid-level, and high-level. Low-level vision focuses on mapping pixel to pixel, which is best for detecting edges and features. Mid-level vision maps pixels to regions, which is used to detect three dimensional structures from motion. High-level vision maps pixels and regions to abstract categories (Huttenlocher, n.d.). In regards to human vision, images travel to the lateral…

1. (250 words max.) Heraclitus says the following: “Of the Logos which is as I describe it men always prove to be uncomprehending” (KRS fr. 194). What is this “logos” that is so incomprehensible for human beings? The logos describes the persisting constitution of the cosmos. Heraclitus claims the logos is “common” and perceivable, and although everything passes in accordance to the logos, many fail to comprehend it (Heraclitus, Fragment 2, 55). Heraclitus claims that to understand the cosmos,…

The visual elements of art help us break down an artist’s work and aids us get a deeper understanding of what the artist is trying to accomplish. In the book; Living with Art, by Mark Getlein, he defines the visual elements as “They are the elements that we perceive and respond to when we look at a work’s form” (Getlein, 2012, 77). Analysis of what the visual elements are, according to Getlein will help tell us a better understanding of Olafur Eliasson work. Getlein talks about seven key…

the lower analysis - advertising posters and labels, models and mannequins, enlarged reproductions and comics, and in addition sets of any items that fell under arm, blankets and cans, broken watches and painted effigies. After the dominance of abstraction, art ceased to be alienated from life and topicality, everything that could arouse the interest was attracted - an atomic bomb and mass psychoses, portraits of politicians and film stars. When Warhol first exhibited these Campbell’s Soup Cans…

14. What is THE TRIUNE PRINCIPLE? • THE ETERNAL “TRIUNE PRINCIPLE” IMPLIES THAT EACH ‘LIVING UNIT’ IS COMPRISED OF THE ETERNAL ‘I’ - THE HIGHEST INNERMOST CORE SENSE OF INDIVIDUAL IDENTITY, THE ETERNAL ‘CREATIVE POWER’ or THE INDIVIDUAL ABILITIES TO ATTRACT & REPEL ENERGIES, AND TEMPORAL or ‘THE CREATED’ PART – “that is its Experiences or ‘Day-Consciousness’.” ‘THE CREATED’ manifests the particular logical combination of ETERNAL ‘Basic Energies’ of the Universe. (Quote from book # , ‘The Fate…

Community in the Islamic faith is deeply integrated into the religion. For Islam you must follow the five pillars of Islam, in which each pillar is a compulsory act. These five pillars of Islam revolve around ummah. Ummah is an Arabic word that means community. The pillars are the salat, sawm, zakat, hajj, and the shahada. Salat, the first pillar is for the prayers, in this religion prayers are performed 5 times a day. There are specific times that one must pray while praying everyone in the…

Multiculturalism is the abstraction that multiple, distinct cultures can exist together and be recognized in a society. This concept builds ethnic diversity, enhancing communities. According the Guest (2014), “today’s flow of globalization are intensifying the exchange and diffusion…

Her work contains both abstraction and realism, no one style rules, a pivotal characteristic of modernists. Modernists unified under the search for identity rather than a specific artistic approach, constantly questioned what it meant to be American Modernists, and pioneered post…

Adolescence is a transitional period linking childhood and adulthood of a person. The word “adolescence” means a period of growth to maturity” (Collin, 2007). It begins at puberty and extends to the late teens or early twenties when the person is largely able to manage his or her own life. This is a time of physical, sexual, emotional, intellectual and social changes that occurs when the young person moves away from dependence on parents and protective confines of the family and towards relative…

000 BCE. Around this period the emerging of cave paintings were discovered in places like Lascausx, France. Art has taught us to understand the history of humanity through the prehistoric period depictions of huge mammoths to todays contemporary abstractions, artist have confronted their place and time in art history and has also expressed universal human honesty for years. One artist who i believe have conqured the mastery in painting from within is the amazing William Keith, an artist who…