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Creative work to evoke aesthetic response
Art is a diverse range of human activity centered around works, crafted as an expression of creativity or imagination, which are expected to provide an audience with a worthwhile experience—generally, an experience of emotion, thinking, or beauty. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: ArtA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Natural language processing: state of the art, current trends and challengesInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: PicassoThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: The Job Demands‐Resources model: state of the artCited 10,683 times
- Go sideways: AestheticsA closely related topic
- Go sideways: The artsA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Symbol ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for artificial languages.
Noun The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colours, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the senses and emotions, usually specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium.
Noun The creative and emotional expression of mental imagery, such as visual, auditory, social, etc.
Noun Skillful creative activity, usually with an aesthetic focus.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
The Job Demands‐Resources model: state of the art
Missing data: Our view of the state of the art.
SLIC Superpixels Compared to State-of-the-Art Superpixel Methods
Toward the next generation of recommender systems: a survey of the state-of-the-art and possible extensions
ERA5-Land: a state-of-the-art global reanalysis dataset for land applications
Differential Evolution: A Survey of the State-of-the-Art
Digital Twin in Industry: State-of-the-Art
Geopolymer technology: the current state of the art
🆕 Influential since 2022
Natural language processing: state of the art, current trends and challenges
TrackMate 7: integrating state-of-the-art segmentation algorithms into tracking pipelines
Zeolites in Adsorption Processes: State of the Art and Future Prospects
State of the art and practice in AI in education
Human-in-the-loop machine learning: a state of the art
📚 Books worth reading
PicassoPablo Picasso, Jean-Louis Andral · 1926
Gorin no shoMiyamoto Musashi · 1963
The Renaissance, Studies in Art and PoetryWalter Pater · 1873
Paul KleePaul Klee · 1930
Henry MooreDavid Sylvester, Henry Moore · 1934
Dell'Arte della GuerraNiccolò Machiavelli · 1540
Sozialgeschichte der Kunst und LiteraturArnold Hauser, S. Godman · 1951
Vincent van GoghVincent van Gogh, Colta Ives · 1914
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