Mountains and streams are inherently connected with the mountain landscape, constituting its most beautiful scenes. Captivating beauty provokes artists; mountains with their streams and sources are a frequent theme in art, ...

Making traditional handicraft is a process of creative construction and deconstruction of the meanings from the past in current socio-cultural contexts. It is also a form of exploring the world, the way of human participation ...

New Topographics is an american photographers’ group whom in the 1970s referred to "topographics" - nineteenth-century photographs of the American West landscape. The "topographers" represented romantic ethos, visible in ...

According to Gestalt psychologists, the simplification rule is the fundamental law of visual perception. It can be understood as making our perception sensitive to certain regularities and distinguishing individual objects ...

Some basic mechanisms between perception, thinking and mood with artistic process of creation are described in this article. Main aspects of cognitive-behavioral reception of reality and its meaning for dynamic of creative ...

The paper analyzes the sources of the modern metaphor of revival of the city, finding conections with of two concepts taken from the biological sciences: circulation and metabolism. The author describes how this understanding ...

The paper deals with the relation between seeing a picture and talking about a picture. Selected poems by Joanna Ślósarska are juxtaposed with theses put forward by Władysław Strzemiński in his theory of vision and by ...