scholarly journals The theme of the city in the creative work of Vasily Kandinsky

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ольга Николаевна Филиппова
Keyword(s):  
Visual Art ◽  
Artistic Expression ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
The City

Статья посвящена творчеству Василия Кандинского, русского художника и теоретика изобразительного искусства, стоявшего у истоков абстракционизма. В центре внимания автора живописные картины, посвященные городу. В отличие от наиболее изученных мощных абстрактных произведений В.В. Кандинского городская тема представляет еще много возможностей для изучения средств художественной выразительности и развития его творческого метода. В результате анализа произведений разных лет в контексте биографии и мировоззрения художника автор статьи раскрывает развитие московской темы в искусстве В.В. Кандинского. Особое внимание уделено его московским картинам Москва I , или Москва. Красная площадь , Москва. Зубовская площадь и др. Как будто предчувствуя скорую разлуку с любимым городом навсегда, он хотел запечатлеть его в своих работах и в памяти. The article is devoted to the work of a Russian artist and visual art theorist who was at the origin of abstractionism Vasily Kandinsky. The author focuses on paintings dedicated to the city. In contrast to the most studied powerful abstract works of V.V. Kandinsky, the urban theme still presents many opportunities for studying the means of artistic expression and developing his creative method. As a result of the analysis of works from different years in the context of the artists biography and worldview, the author of the article reveals the development of the Moscow theme in the art of V.V. Kandinsky. Special attention is paid to his Moscow paintings Moscow I, or Moscow. Red square, Moscow. Zubovskaya square and others.

“Satisfied with the Ruins of Berlin”: The German Capital’s Image in Soviet Graphics of 1945

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (6) ◽  
pp. 564-575
Author(s):  
Irina I. Rutsinskaya
Keyword(s):  
Visual Art ◽  
Visual Image ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Public ◽  
Historical Justice ◽  
Public Consciousness ◽  
Post War ◽  
The One ◽  
First Time ◽  
The City

An artist who finds themselves in the last days of a war in the enemy’s defeated capital may not just fix its objects dispassionately. Many factors influence the selection and depicturing manner of the objects. One of the factors is satisfaction from the accomplished retribution, awareness of the historical justice triumph. Researchers think such reactions are inevitable. The article offers to consider from this point of view the drawings created by Soviet artists in Berlin in the spring and summer of 1945. Such an analysis of the German capital’s visual image is conducted for the first time. It shows that the above reactions were not the only ones. The graphics of the first post-war days no less clearly and consistently express other feelings and intentions of their authors: the desire to accurately document and fix the image of the city and some of its structures in history, the happiness from the silence of peace, and the simple interest in the monuments of European art.The article examines Berlin scenes as evidences of the transition from front-line graphics focused on the visual recording of the war traces to peacetime graphics; from documentary — to artistry; from the worldview of a person at war — to the one of a person who lived to victory. In this approach, it has been important to consider the graphic images of Berlin in unity with the diary and memoir texts belonging to both artists and ordinary soldiers who participated in the storming of Berlin. The combination of verbal and visual sources helps to present the German capital’s image that existed in the public consciousness, as well as the specificity of its representation by means of visual art.

Images of Belfast

2020 ◽  
pp. 39-67
Author(s):  
Rosie Lavan
Keyword(s):  
Visual Art ◽  
Prose Poetry ◽  
Recent History ◽  
Seamus Heaney ◽  
Visual Theory ◽  
Critical Moment ◽  
Formative Experiences ◽  
The City

Seamus Heaney lived for over a decade in Belfast. The city was the site of many formative experiences and he began his career as a poet there, yet his work betrays little fondness for it. This chapter examines Heaney’s evolving relationship with Belfast at a critical moment in the city’s recent history, through his prose, poetry, and work for television in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It stresses the importance of other places, specifically Berkeley and Madrid, in reforming his view of Belfast and, informed by contemporary visual theory, it looks closely at his responses to violence in poetry and visual art, and especially the work of Goya, in his developing exploration of the ethics of representation.

4. Plato

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. D. C. Reeve
Keyword(s):  
Freedom Of Speech ◽  
Operating Principle ◽  
Artistic Expression ◽  
Good Knowledge ◽  
Private Sphere ◽  
The Political ◽  
Personal Freedom ◽  
Political Ideas ◽  
The City

This chapter examines Plato's main political ideas. It first provides a biography of Plato before discussing the overall argument of the Republic and the philosopher–kings that are its centrepiece. It then considers the Form of the good, knowledge of which is exclusive and essential to the philosopher–kings, along with the structure of the city envisioned by them, known as kallipolis, and its key operating principle. It also analyses the kallipolis from a variety of politically significant perspectives; for example, whether it is based on false ideology, whether it involves a totalitarian intrusion of the political into the private sphere, or whether it treats its least powerful members such as invalids, infants, and slaves in an unjust way. The chapter concludes by exploring how the kallipolis limits freedom of speech, artistic expression, personal freedom, and autonomy.

scholarly journals Berlin As a Creative Field: Deconstructing the Role of the Urban Context in Creative Production

2016 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 121-132
Author(s):  
Marco Copercini
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Influence ◽  
Fashion Design ◽  
Location Decisions ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Relational Context ◽  
Innovation Capacity ◽  
Fashion Designers ◽  
The City

Abstract The relation between creative activities and the cities in which they are concentrated is that of mutual influence and dependence. This kind of dynamics is well described by the concept of the creative field by Scott (2006, 2008, 2010, 2014). According to this concept, there is a shared relational context among creative actors in a given place, as well as between them and the local socio-economic-institutional context. Consequently, the economic profile and innovation capacity of a city are determined by the main sectors based there. In this paper, I discuss the role of the creative field in developing the relation between the city of Berlin and creative actors of the fashion design sector, as well as elements of the creative field that are considered relevant by fashion designers in their creative work. This perspective allows the underscoring of some relevant drivers that have made Berlin one of the most relevant places for fashion design in Germany and the whole of Europe. This research has been supported by administrative data from the period 1990-2015, along with personal interviews in the fashion design sector. Shown are not only the existing relations between the urban context and the creative activities of designers, but also how the development of the creative field of the city might be influenced. Consequently, the creative work of fashion designers and their location decisions have to be considered in relation to the creative field as a dynamic combination of variable elements that influence, and are influenced by, each other.

scholarly journals Celebrating Culture - Literary Communities of Practice in Doha

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naqaa Abbas ◽  
Hend Taher
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Arts And Culture ◽  
Performative Space ◽  
Literary Communities ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
The City ◽  
Literary Circles

Our paper focuses on the role of arts and culture in Doha. More specifically, we examine literary circles in Doha (both Arab and English speaking) and regard them as ‘communities of practice.’ According to Etienne Wenger, communities of practice are “groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly.” Moreover, such communities are seen as promoting innovation, developing social capital, facilitating and spreading knowledge within a group, and spreading existing knowledge. Recently, there has been a surge of active literary communities presenting their creative work in both English and Arabic attracting a variety of audiences and fans. For instance, young authors such as Kumam Al Maadeed, Eissa Abdullah, Buthaina Al-Janahi and Abdullah Fakhro not only have a huge online following, but they also have a significant fan base attending their events throughout the city. Besides these communities, there are also numerous organizations with which these celebrity authors are associated such as Qalam Hebr, Qatari Forum for Authors, and Outspoken Doha – we argue that such organizations can also be regarded as communities of practice. Our contention is that these ever-growing communities provide a performative space in which poets, singers, authors and artists can experiment with the fluidity of their assigned identities, cultures and traditions.

scholarly journals Still Ekphrasis? Visual and Non-Visual Art in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Jarosław Hetman
Keyword(s):  
Visual Art ◽  
The Other ◽  
Artistic Expression ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Context ◽  
Contemporary Novels ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
Definition Of

<p>The article explores the ancient notion of ekphrasis in an attempt to redefine it and to adjust it to the requirements of the contemporary literary and artistic landscape. An overview of the transformations in the world of art in the 20<sup>th</sup> century allows us to adjust our understanding of what art is today and to examine its existence within the literary context. In light of the above, I postulate a broadening of the definition of ekphrasis so as to include not only painting and sculpture on the one side, and poetry on the other, but also to open it up to less conventional forms of artistic expression, and allow for its use in reference to prose. In order to illustrate its relevance to the novel, I have conducted a study of three contemporary novels – John Banville’s <em>Athena</em>, Kurt Vonnegut’s <em>Bluebeard</em> and Don DeLillo’s <em>Mao II </em>– in order to uncover the innovative ways in which novelists nowadays use ekphrasis to reinvigorate long prose.</p>

scholarly journals Joaquín Murat y el levantamiento del 2 de mayo

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 137-150
Author(s):  
Marilicia di Paolo ◽  
Jacopo Varchetta
Keyword(s):  
Alejo Carpentier ◽  
Benito Perez Galdos ◽  
The Other ◽  
Spanish Population ◽  
Artistic Expression ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The City ◽  
Benito Pérez Galdós

The article aims to present two perspectives, the Spanish and the French one, on the uprising of May 2nd and the previous French occupation of the city of Madrid. In order to delineate the French perspective, letters written by Murat himself to Napoleon will be analyzed; on the other hand, in order to analyze the opinion of the Spanish population, emphasis will be placed on distant expressive forms, such as painting, some examples will be given by Los fusilamientos by Goya, literature with Benito Pérez Galdós’ National Episods, Letters from Spain by Blanco White, Alejo Carpentier’ s Explosion in a Cathedral, the most recent film Blood of May 2008 under the direction of José Luis García Muñoz and more examples of the artistic expression.

scholarly journals Creativity, informality and cultural work in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 248-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cecilia Dinardi
Keyword(s):  
Policy Development ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Cultural Work ◽  
Creative Economy ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Political Resistance ◽  
Policy Initiatives ◽  
Global North ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

In the last decade, new policy initiatives emerged in Latin America as a response to the rise of a ‘creative turn’ in the global North. This article examines the impact of such turn on urban cultural policies for informal settlements in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, focusing on the case of ‘Favela Criativa’ – a governmental programme to support young people’s cultural and creative work across favelas. The analysis reveals that the programme has effectively widened the visibility of favelas’ cultural and creative work, increased financial public support and developed practical strategies for working with informality. However, it also raises questions about the extent to which this innovative policy development actually challenges prevalent managerial views of creativity guided by a market logic. The article demonstrates that a focus on informality as groundwork for political resistance in the city can expand our understanding of the creative economy beyond precarization, self-exploitation and individualization.

Platypus

BioScience ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 70 (9) ◽  
pp. 833-833
Author(s):  
Rob Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Visual Art ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Artistic Expression ◽  
Stanford University ◽  
Earth System ◽  
Earth System Science ◽  
System Science

Abstract Enriching BioScience's role as a Forum for Integrating the Life Sciences, Arts in Science provides an occasional venue for poems, visual art, and other forms of artistic expression that explore and enliven our understanding of life. Through the contributions in this section, we hope to share with our readers the passion for nature that science inspires. This contribution is from Rob Jackson, professor, Earth System Science; Senior Fellow, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment; and Senior Fellow, Precourt Institute for Energy, at Stanford University, in California.

Rebuilding

BioScience ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 70 (9) ◽  
pp. 832-832
Author(s):  
Rob Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Visual Art ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Artistic Expression ◽  
Stanford University ◽  
Earth System ◽  
Earth System Science ◽  
System Science

Abstract Enriching BioScience's role as a Forum for Integrating the Life Sciences, Arts in Science provides an occasional venue for poems, visual art, and other forms of artistic expression that explore and enliven our understanding of life. Through the contributions in this section, we hope to share with our readers the passion for nature that science inspires. These contributions are from Rob Jackson, professor, Earth System Science; Senior Fellow, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment; and Senior Fellow, Precourt Institute for Energy, at Stanford University, in California.

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