Pertaining to the area of human accomplishments in which intangible creative elements are applied to produce the final product. Can pertain to the production, interpretation or appreciation of works created to evoke specific emotional responses, such as in painting or music.
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Is there a relationship between yellow and moods?
A commonly held belief in visual arts and graphic design is that colours communicate specific moods.
Let's concentrate on the colour yellow, for example here:
The color yellow gives one a warm and cosy effect. It also arouses cheerfulness,…
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Do spoilers increase enjoyment of a story?
There are studies such as this where people report that spoilers increase enjoyment for narrative works.
According to research by UC San Diego psychology professor Nicholas Christenfeld, spoilers don’t ruin a story: They make you enjoy it even…
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Was the radical change in art in the 15th century assisted by technology?
The British artist David Hockney argues in his book Secret Knowledge that:
from the early 15th century many Western artists used optics--by which I mean mirrors and lenses (or a combination of the two)--to create living projections
His basic idea…
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Did China destroy a Guanyin statue in Hebei province?
From Mongolia live:
It was not the Taliban who exploded the stone carvings, but the Chinese Communist Party
A 57.9-meter-tall cliff stone-carved vertical Guanyin statue in Pingshan County, Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, which spent nearly five years…
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Is Sesame Street at risk of losing funding with Trump's new budget proposal?
Trump's latest budget proposal includes cuts to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. There have been claims that this would endanger funding to Sesame Street. However, Sesame Street moved off of PBS and onto HBO over a year ago, so is Sesame…
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Was Isaac Newton responsible for the loss of Robert Hooke's work?
This Yahoo answer citing this dead source (mirror) claims:
It may be a coincidence but the only known portrait of Hooke which had
been housed in the President's office, was mysteriously lost as were
the records of much of Hooke's work. In…
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Is Eşref Armağan an eyeless painter?
There are a number of articles online about a blind, Turkish painter, Eşref Armağan. born without eyes, including a short Wikipedia entry. Purportedly, he's able to create paintings with color and perspective, representing real-world images in a way…
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Has Francesca Marie Smith written any episodes of Hey Arnold?
Migrate to movies se if need be please.
It says in this reddit post here
TIL Francesca Marie Smith, the voice of Helga from Hey Arnold, actually started writing episodes of Hey Arnold when she was only 11 years old. She wrote a total of 10…
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Is the Mona Lisa in the Louvre the Real one
Is the Mona Lisa hanging in Paris/Louvre the real one? There are "other versions" and copies that are well known. It was stolen in 1911 after all, as well as vandalized a couple of times. There have been several people who have had occasion to ask…
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Does Lee Hadwin have "artistic ability" only when asleep?
The artist Lee Hadwin claims that he paints only when he is asleep and has no artistic talent when he is awake.
A dailymail article about his gallery opening:
An artist who has no artistic ability while awake but can create masterpieces in his…
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Is golden ratio the most aesthetically pleasing ratio?
I have read several claims in all kinds of literature (both scientific, less scientific and downwards anti-scientific) about golden ratio and its "aesthetics".
However, all the "proofs" I have seen seemed to me like arbitrarily chosen and ignored…
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