Phantom Writing by Michael Hirschbichler

“…Through the media of text, photography, film and site-specific painting, my works from the cycle Spirit Grounds engage with these sites involving material physical aspects as well as beliefs, fictions, and more-than-human beings. …”
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Quand les jardins résistent à l’art… by Catherine Chomarat-Ruiz

“…It considers the idea that if gardens are accustomed to borrow from the other arts – painting, theater, etc. – there is not a specific garden art. …”
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Courbet, Catlin, and the Exploitation of Native Americans by Jane M. Roos

“…It also connects reactions to Catlin’s museum with the burgeoning of modernism in mid-nineteenth-century France and with the transformation in Courbet’s painting during the years marked by The Painter’s Studio.…”
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Goya: del absolutismo ilustrado a la libertad política by Antonio Elorza

“…This paper intends to fully place Goya’s painting within the evolution of enlightened thought, from criticism of the privileged classes, beginning with the clergy, to that of moral degradation at the time of Maria Luisa and de Godoy. …”
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Une copie de L’Origine du monde par René Magritte ? by Catherine Defeyt, David Strivay

“…Moreover, various material indices indicate that it was probably produced not according to the Courbet painting, but from a black and white reproduction.…”
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The mist-lining technique: a look into the mechanical performance and the adhesive bond strength of selected lining materials by L. Bertomeu Contreras, L. Fuster López, A. Vicente Escuder

“…Linings pursue the reinforcement of a weak canvas painting, generally by the adhesion of a new fabric. …”
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Process-based VOCs Source Profiles and Contributions to Ozone Formation in Typical Organic Solvent-used Industries in Hangzhou by Zhinian Li, Wenjuan Li, Rong Zhou, Xiaoping Miao, Jianhai Lu, Zhongren Wang, Zhongping Yang, Jian Wu

“…Herein, VOCs samples collected before and after treatments from the painting industry, printing industry and printing & dyeing industry in Hangzhou were measured. …”
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Amazon Journeys and Poetic Re-Discoveries in Jan Conn’s 'Jaguar Rain' and Malu de Martino’s 'Margaret Mee e a Flor da Lua' by Magali Sperling Beck, Anelise R. Corseuil

“…On this trip, she was at last able to paint the rare night-flowering of Selenicereus wittii, commonly known as the Amazon moonflower. …”
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Dedication: Close reading: Ludi Schulze and Calvin research by Erik A. de Boer

“… From text: How should we paint a picture of a scholar who in the course of a lifelong career has become well known to the South-African academic community? …”
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Bazgrota w twórczości plastycznej dziecka – obszar wciąż niedoceniany by Urszula Szuścik

“…As a result of the theoretical analysis of the problem of scribbling in a child’s drawing, the author defined the following features of the scribble, such as: dynamics of change, spontaneity of action, elementary kinesthetic in building a form, non-objectivity, own internal rhythm of drawing and painting, subjectivity, projection of the form of physical activity, fabulous content, novelty results, originality of the approach, expressiveness. …”
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L’eau, malin génie du jardin by Catherine Chomarat-Ruiz

“…More precisely, the article aims to understand this duality in the water values through an analysis of the Narcissus myth and the arts quarrel in which painting, eloquence and arts of garden face against each other. …”
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De l’exposition à la décomposition prismatique : art de la mémoire et arts visuels dans Speak, Memory de Vladimir Nabokov by Laure de Nervaux-Gavoty

“…References to the visual arts – painting, drawing, photography, the cinema and the magic lantern – play a central role in Speak Memory, reflecting the tensions underlying the workings of memory in Nabokov’s autobiography. …”
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Alma-Tadema et le détournement de la culture savante by Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada

“…This paper aims at showing that there are different readings of his painting that inscribe him both in the “commodity culture” of the age—because of his interest for objects and archaeological artefacts that are reproduced time and again in his canvases—and in the Aesthetic Movement that posited the doctrine of art for art’s sake. …”
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“Depth of field” or “negative forms”: space/syntax from HDR digital photography to hypermedia navigation by Marie-Madeleine Martinet

“…It then looks at the broader chronological context of the interplay of distance and foreground, such as framing structures and brushwork texture in classical landscapes, the role of shadows in painting from Leonardo to Enlightenment theories on perception, the exploration of atmospheric effects and of lighting by Victorian artists and scientists ranging from stage sets to physicists’ experiments. …”
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« Quelque chose de rouge » : l’esthétique des tableaux vivants dans Salammbô by Dominique Jullien

“…A cultural practice which reached its peak popularity during the Second Empire, the tableau vivant intersects theater, painting, photography, and sculpture, genres and media which Flaubert sought either to emulate or to rival in his writing. …”
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3D artistic mapping of the urban environment for tourism information support by German Anna

“…By our understanding the panoramic map of the city is a cartographic image of the urban environment, made with regard to linear and aerial perspectives on the principle of artistic painting and created an illusory sense of volumetricity. …”
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Visual Hybridity: Margaret Murray Cookesley’s Orientalist Aestheticism by Julia Kuehn

“…What makes her oeuvre fascinating in the context of British Aestheticism is that she successfully combined artistic principles adopted from the Aesthetic Movement with the Eastern subject matter inherited from the Orientalist painting tradition. By analysing a number of Cookesley’s Orientalist-Aestheticist paintings of harem women this essay thus suggests that Aestheticism was by no means a well-defined or self-contained artistic movement but was open enough to invite often bizarre hybrids like Cookesley’s works into its circle.…”
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Ethnic Populism and Bad Taste: Exploring the Kitschification of Slovak Folklore by Jana Migašová

“…Against the backdrop of reconstructing European and Slovak thought and writing on the relationship between kitsch and politics, this article attempts to reconstruct and explain folkloric kitsch in the realm of painting as a_specific aesthetic vehicle for the powerful ethnic populism.…”
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El Greco's representation of mystical ecstasy by Estelle Alma Maré

“…The ecstatically gesturing figures are selected from El Greco’s most distinctive paintings. …”
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Hide and seek. Aspects of the dynamics of Bible translation by C. Lombaard

“… Art may be viewed as fetish, in that it forces meaning on a chaotic world — a dynamic which is briefly illustrated in this article by means of Pablo Picasso’s famous painting, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. Similarly, translations of the biblical texts, which result from very complex processes, may be viewed as fetishes. …”
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