Calvinism and Visual Culture: The Art of Evasion

2020 ◽  
pp. 138-154
Author(s):  
Angela Vanhaelen
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Art Market ◽  
Dutch Republic ◽  
The Public ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Dominant Feature ◽  
Central Claim

This chapter considers the seeming impossibility of reconciling Reformed interdictions with a burgeoning of the arts. Pictures proliferated in post-Reformation Europe. In spite—or perhaps because—of Reformed Protestant prohibitions, the visual arts flourished even in places that embraced Calvinism, with its noted distrust of the image. In the Dutch Republic, for instance, the Reformed faith was adopted as the public confession, yet a lively and prosperous art market was a dominant feature of the so-called Golden Age of cultural and economic vibrancy. The central claim of this chapter is that Calvinism generated an art of evasion and, in so doing, it brought about significant—and often unanticipated—changes to cultural life.

scholarly journals Corporate Aesthetics and Communication in the Urban Arts and Visual Culture of Kumasi

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
A. E. Asante ◽  
K. Opoku-Bonsu ◽  
A. K. Ebehiakeh
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Urban Art ◽  
Cultural Transformations ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The People ◽  
History Of ◽  
Urban Arts ◽  
Descriptive Method

Kumasi is the capital city of the Asante Kingdom of Ghana. Being the seat of the throne of the Asantehene, the King of Asante’s, Kumasi is widely acknowledged as the major cultural city of Ghana. A study of the history of the people of Kumasi reveals that culture and art permeates their everyday life. Scholars have done some studies on the arts and economics of Asante and how it reflects their cultural life. However, a scholarly analysis of how corporate aesthetics is reflected in the urban art and visual culture of Kumasi has not been explored. In the bid to achieve this main objective, the paper discusses the corporate identities and cultural transformations in Kumasi, billboards, corporate commerce and savings, consuming visual culture and family finance and urban fantasies. The study is qualitative in nature and employs the descriptive method to provide an accurate description of specific urban arts in Kumasi.

Visual Arts Online Educational Trends

2013 ◽  
pp. 89-98
Author(s):  
Laura M. Rusnak
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Visual Culture ◽  
Art Education ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Mediated Learning ◽  
Traditional Art ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Educational Trends

The intent of this chapter is to understand the implications of online education for the visual arts and how the objectives of a traditional art education can be adapted to computer-mediated learning. The focus is on three trends affecting the arts: visual culture, cultural production, and originality in art and practice.

Art and Its Publics, c. 1800

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
James J. Sheehan
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Art World ◽  
Old Regime ◽  
Revolutionary Era ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Arts ◽  
National Values ◽  
The Social ◽  
Relationship Of

This chapter begins by sketching the principal ingredients of what Paul Kristeller called ‘the modern system of the arts’: the concept of art itself; art as created by an artist; and art as public. It then examines the condition of the visual arts at the beginning of the nineteenth century, that is, in the middle of the great revolutionary era that began in 1789. In talking about the arts, a Tocquevillian sense of continuity between old regime and revolution is wholly appropriate. The revolution changed the modern art world in several important ways. Three of these changes are discussed. The first has to do with the social setting of art and artists, and especially with artists' changing relationship to patrons and the public. The second concerns the geographical location of art, particularly the shift in the visual arts' centre of gravity away from Italy to Paris, which would remain the artistic capital of Europe for the next century. The third theme is about the complex relationship of national values and national themes to European art, especially painting.

Women and the Visual Arts

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Marie Musacchio
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Dutch Republic ◽  
New Work ◽  
Italian Peninsula ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Stuart England ◽  
Near Future ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between women and art in the Renaissance and Reformation across Europe is still a relatively new area of study, and recent scholarship indicates considerable interest in all aspects of it. Women’s engagement with the arts might be categorized into three broad themes: women as artists, patrons, and subjects. This is perhaps the best way to look at this phenomenon, and a great many art historians, cultural historians, and other scholars have used these themes to structure their inquiries. Within these three themes, however, it is important to note that the women in question were almost always of the middle and upper classes, and they lived in urban settings; these were the women who, via familial wealth or, in some cases, their own resources, could afford encounters with art. Much of the scholarship on this topic has been biased toward cities on the Italian peninsula, where contextual research on economic, political, and social conditions provides a strong foundation across the chronological span. But new work on the Dutch Republic and Tudor and Stuart England, as well as occasional studies in other countries and eras, indicates that this burgeoning field will only become more popular in the near future.

scholarly journals Visual Arts in the University Educational Ecosystem: Analysis of Schools of Knowledge

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 184
Author(s):  
Mariana-Daniela González-Zamar ◽  
Emilio Abad-Segura
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Scientific Production ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
International Level ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Current Lines ◽  
The University

Throughout history, the visual arts have allowed for a dynamic of aesthetic feedback, cultural plurality, and a standardization of the artistic phenomenon. The objective of this study is to analyze the current lines of research at the international level, during the period 1952–2020, on the visual arts in the university educational ecosystem. Bibliometric techniques were applied to 1727 articles in the thematic area of the “Arts and Humanities” to obtain the findings included in this report. Scientific production has increased mainly in the last decade, making up around 70% of all publications. Five schools of knowledge have been identified that generate articles on this topic related to art, visual culture, modernity, music, and history. The growing trend of scientific production worldwide shows the interest in developing aspects of this field of study. This article contributes to the academic, scientific, and institutional discussion on the role of the visual arts in contemporary society.

“How-To” Make Art in Communist China: Professionalizing Amateur Artists

2019 ◽  
pp. 223-247
Author(s):  
Vivian Y. Li
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Institutional Management ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The People ◽  
Public Nature ◽  
Communist China ◽  
Professional Artists ◽  
Ideological Tensions

This article explores the prominent role of the amateur artist in the conception of communist visual culture in China during the Maoist years (1949–1976). Focusing on two groups of amateur art manuals for the promotion of producing visual arts and meishuzi by the nonartists of the general public, this study reveals the dynamic process of changing authorship and the public nature of the amateur arts in the People’s Republic. In offering detailed explanations of core artistic concepts, techniques, and model examples, the manuals reflect an institutional management of the amateur artists and their creative impulses. Authored by professional artists, but intended for amateurs, the manuals speak of ideological tensions at play in the communist effort of bringing the arts to the people.

scholarly journals Trends and Anti-Trends in Techno-Art Scholarship: The Legacy of the Arts “Machine” Special Issues

Arts ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 120
Author(s):  
Bessette ◽  
Fol Leymarie ◽  
Smith
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Creative Potential ◽  
New Horizons ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Arts ◽  
John James Audubon ◽  
Professional Artist ◽  
Unique Ability

With the goal of casting a spotlight on the posture of the creative community at this crucial moment in human technological history, we present herein a thematic overview of the 23 articles published in the recent Arts Special Issues “The Machine as Art (in the 20th Century)” and “The Machine as Artist (for the 21st Century)”. Surprisingly, several of the themes that had been suggested in our two introductory essays as representing shared and positive points of departure—in particular, (a) the visual arts as a longstanding touchstone of human culture, (b) the visual arts (with the example of John James Audubon) as having a unique ability to rally the public to the environmental cause, and (c) computer and robotic proficiency in the arts as leading to a friendlier artificial intelligence—received less than the expected amount of attention. Instead, it was another of the suggested themes (albeit also of a positive and forward-looking nature) around which our authors coalesced, as expressed in the following phrase: the “vast expansion of the creative sphere” which technology has made possible, or in other words, the idea that technology is not only providing new horizons for the professional artist but is also providing new avenues for the non-professional to discover his or her creative potential. In light, furthermore, of the marked enthusiasm for this theme, we suggest in our conclusion the need for a corresponding expansion of the venues available to both professional and non-professional techno-art practitioners.

scholarly journals Respons Seniman Malaysia Dekad 1970-an terhadap Dasar Kebudayaan Kebangsaan: Satu Analisis Awal Pameran "Towards a Mystical Reality" (1974) dan "Rupa dan Jiwa" (1979)

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-198
Author(s):  
Siti Nur Balqis Abdul Halim ◽  
◽  
Sarena Abdullah
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Art Exhibitions ◽  
Profound Impact ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Arts ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Art Activities ◽  
Definition Of

Art exhibitions play an important role in developing and supporting art activities in Malaysia and are often used as platforms to showcase works of the visual arts to the public. The National Cultural Policy (NCP) (1971) had a profound impact on the development of the visual arts in Malaysia. This policy is the country’s official attempt to establish a Malaysian identity, especially in the arts. Indirectly, it also challenged the boundaries of the definition of art in terms of philosophy, sociology, and aesthetics, in the context of exhibition practices. This paper discusses two local art exhibitions— Towards a Mystical Reality (TMR) (1974) and Rupa dan Jiwa (1979). This paper discusses both exhibitions in the contexts of the NCP, particularly by focusing on the aspect of (Malay) nativism, and through the introduction of new ideas and concepts with an intellectual component.

Diaghilev and British Writing

2009 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-92
Author(s):  
Susan Jones
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Responses ◽  
Literary Aesthetics ◽  
Ballets Russes ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Opening Up

This article explores the diversity of British literary responses to Diaghilev's project, emphasising the way in which the subject matter and methodologies of Diaghilev's modernism were sometimes unexpectedly echoed in expressions of contemporary British writing. These discussions emerge both in writing about Diaghilev's work, and, more discretely, when references to the Russian Ballet find their way into the creative writing of the period, serving to anchor the texts in a particular cultural milieu or to suggest contemporary aesthetic problems in the domain of literary aesthetics developing in the period. Figures from disparate fields, including literature, music and the visual arts, brought to their criticism of the Ballets Russes their individual perspectives on its aesthetics, helping to consolidate the sense of its importance in contributing to the inter-disciplinary flavour of modernism across the arts. In the field of literature, not only did British writers evaluate the Ballets Russes in terms of their own poetics, their relationship to experimentation in the novel and in drama, they developed an increasing sense of the company's place in dance history, its choreographic innovations offering material for wider discussions, opening up the potential for literary modernism's interest in impersonality and in the ‘unsayable’, discussions of the body, primitivism and gender.

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