Color correction is how to describe object intrinsic color under different lighting conditions, and it has been applied in medical image, remote sensing images, mural images, licenses, and many other images.
But the creative urge went far beyond these mural images to include elaborate self-ornamentation, the almost compulsive and often ethereally beautiful decoration of everyday objects, the creation of complex musical instruments, the development of systems of notation, and a host of clever new technologies.
After working on the children, I had several days of photographing friends who posed for the next set of mural images.
In one Bronx mural, monumental images of a firefighter and a police officer echo the lost twin towers.
And a mural-like image of a tropical paradise that covers one of Henrique Faria's walls is largely pieced together from home-and-garden magazine covers.
Thomas Ruff's mural-size image of smoke trailing over the marshlands of southern Iraq was taken from the Internet and so deliberately eroded that it resembles a kind of blurred mosaic (and also hints at what it may feel like to be going blind).
Mural-scale images in the darkened main gallery show a view of Manhattan and a bucolic upstate view of the Hudson River, delivered by on-site cameras.
Also in China, rescue excavations carried out ahead of a road-building project in Dengfeng, southwest of Zhengzhou, revealed a Song dynasty (960 1279 ce) tomb with 11 well-preserved murals displaying images of banquets and Buddhist and Daoist religious scenes.
The work ranged from mural-size images of police helicopters painted with hair pomade by Kori Newkirk, who lives in Los Angeles, to computer-assisted geometric abstract painting by the New York artist Louis Cameron.
Large, gaudy gold frames hold his mural-size images on every street corner.
