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  2. Aesthetics of nature - Wikipedia

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    Nature is a living system which includes animals, plants, and Eco-systems. In contrast, an art object has no regeneration, evolutionary history, or metabolism. [ 6 ] An individual may be in the forest and perceive it as beautiful because of the plethora of colors such as red, green, and yellow.

  3. Naturalism (philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    The earliest pre-Socratic philosophers, especially the Milesians (Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximenes) and the atomists (Leucippus and Democritus), were labeled by their peers and successors "the physikoi" (from the Greek φυσικός or physikos, meaning "natural philosopher" borrowing on the word φύσις or physis, meaning "nature ...

  4. Nature (philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    "Nature" means: (a) in one sense, the genesis of growing things — as would be suggested by pronouncing the υ of φύσις [9] long—and (b) in another, that immanent thing from which a growing thing first begins to grow. (c) The source from which the primary motion in every natural object is induced in that object as such. All things are ...

  5. Depth perception - Wikipedia

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    Perspective, relative size, occultation and texture gradients all contribute to the three-dimensional appearance of this photo. Depth perception is the ability to perceive distance to objects in the world using the visual system and visual perception.

  6. Composition (visual arts) - Wikipedia

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    Lines are optical phenomena that allow the artist to direct the eye of the viewer. The optical illusion of lines does exist in nature, and in visual arts, elements can be arranged to create this illusion. The viewer unconsciously "reads" the image through the continuous arrangement of different elements and subjects at varying distances.

  7. The Great Wave off Kanagawa - Wikipedia

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    The Great Wave off Kanagawa is a landscape-format yoko-e print that was produced in an ōban size of 25 cm × 37 cm (9.8 in × 14.6 in). [ 18 ] [ 19 ] The landscape is composed of three elements: a stormy sea, three boats, and a mountain.

  8. Visual communication - Wikipedia

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    Cultural perspective: Symbolization is an important definition for this perspective. Cultural perspective involves identity of symbols. The uses of words that are related with the image, the use of heroes in the image, etc. are the symbolization of the image. The cultural perspective can also be seen as the semiotic perspective. [15]

  9. Depiction - Wikipedia

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    He rejects resemblance and illusion as incompatible with the ambiguities and interpretation available to pictures and is also critical of the inflexible nature of structuralist analysis. Deixis is taken as the rhetoric of the narrator, indicating the presence of the speaker in a discourse, a bodily or physical aspect as well as an explicit ...