scholarly journals H. R. H. Princess Wijdan Ali of Jordan

1970 ◽  
pp. 2-4
Author(s):  
Lebanese American University
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
National Gallery ◽  
The Arts

The National Gallery of Jordan celebrated its fifth anniversary on the 7th of February 1984. Founded in 1979 by the Royal Society of Fine Arts, the Gallery's main objective is to be a pioneer of the arts not only in Jordan but also in the rest of the Arab world.

Introductory remarks

1971 ◽  
Vol 269 (1199) ◽  
pp. 323-326
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Structural Engineering ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Fourth Century ◽  
Economic Planning ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Arts

May I begin by extending the warmest possible welcome on behalf of the Royal Society to all of you, and a particular welcome to all those who have been so kind as to agree to speak at this meeting. I should like also to give especial greetings to our many visitors from abroad. We are delighted to see you here in London. The Royal Society of London, in its fourth century of work to foster science and technology, is more than ever concerned to arrange discussions of those subjects that involve interactions between different specialist disciplines. Admittedly, during the third and fourth of those centuries, thousands of Specialist societies have grown up, and have done excellent and distinguished work within particular disciplines. Nevertheless, there are many very complicated borderline areas, which specialized bodies are prone to ignore, and these are where a Society with a very broad field of interest and expertise can play an important part. Recently the Royal Society has gone still farther, and taken particular interest in interactions with subjects somewhat outside the normal field of science and technology; subjects like demography and archaeology. Today and tomorrow we are concerned, not only with science and technology in the shape of aerodynamics and structural engineering, but also with both the arts and social studies, in the shape of one of the classical fine arts—architecture—and one of the characteristic systematizing fields of work of the twentieth century, that of socio-economic planning.

Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Ann Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Video Art ◽  
National Gallery ◽  
Islamic Art ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Governmental Organization ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
Founding Director

The Royal Society of Fine Arts, a private, non-profit, non-governmental organization with the goal of promoting the visual arts in Jordan and the region, established the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts in 1980. Located in two buildings in the historic district of Jabal al Weibdeh in the capital of Amman, the National Gallery houses over two thousand five hundred paintings, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, photographs, weavings, installations, and video art by modern and contemporary artists from Arab, Islamic, and developing countries. One of the institution’s most important projects was the 1989 exhibition, Contemporary Art from the Islamic World, which opened at the Barbican Centre in London. Edited by founding director Dr Wijdan F. Al-Hashemi and accompanied by an extensive catalogue, the exhibition represented the most extensive show of modern Islamic art in Europe, with over two hundred pieces and inclusive of over a hundred artists from twenty-three countries in the Islamic world. In 2009, the National Gallery launched a second pioneering project: the Mobile Museum. Each week, a van converted into a gallery shares the work of Jordanian artists, along with art workshops and artist talks, with villages throughout Jordan’s rural countryside.

scholarly journals Arab Women in the Fine Arts

1970 ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Laurie King-Irani
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Arab Women ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Tension Change ◽  
Ecological Problems ◽  
Political Economic

The arts are not a primary topic of discussion or concern in the contemporary Arab world. Political, economic, social and ecological problems easily take precedence over cultural concerns during this period of tension, change and uncertainty in the Middle East.

Warashoon, Decha (1945--)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte Galloway
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Mixed Media ◽  
National Gallery ◽  
Graphic Arts ◽  
Artistic Style ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Institute Of Technology

Decha Warashoon was a member of the vanguard of Thai artists who brought Southeast Asian art to international attention. After graduating from the Fine Arts program of Silpakorn University in 1969, Warashoon established himself as an artist of note, winning multiple national Thai art competitions. His time at Silpakorn coincided with an overhaul of teaching methods in the arts that saw contemporary Western modernist styles actively incorporated into the curriculum. He experimented with abstraction and Minimalism, incorporating painting, printmaking, watercolors, and mixed media. Warashoon continues to develop his artistic style, incorporating geometric and sinuous forms created in mixed media. His works are often inspired by emotional responses to life experiences, and bring together texture and muted colors. A retrospective of his works was held at the National Gallery in Bangkok in 2003, and in 2007 he was named National Artist of Thailand in the Graphic Arts, and has since taken up the post of professor at King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology at Lat Krabang.

Zygmunt Krasiński wobec sztuk pięknych / Zygmunt Krasiński and the Fine Arts

2013 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Płaszczewska
Keyword(s):  
Fine Arts ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Individual Sensitivity ◽  
What Works ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
A Current ◽  
Aesthetic Preferences

Summary This is an attempt at examining Zygmunt Krasiński’s opinions and preferences with regard to the fine arts, a theme many critics believed to be missing from his writings. While putting things right, this article looks at the issues involved in his artistic choices, for example, what works or artists attracted his attention, in general, and to the point of him actually drawing on them in his own work or provoking him to some response (critical, approving, emotional, etc.). Furthermore, the article tries to explore the reasons and circumstances which may account for Krasiński’s interest in a given painting, print, or sculpture. It may have been the work’s theme as in the case of his ekphrasis of Ary Scheffer’s Dante and Virgil Encountering the Shades of Francesca and Paolo Di Rimini, where literary tradition provided the impulse, or the mode of its execution, or the personal ties with its author, or, finally, some other factors, like a current vogue or simply Krasiński’s individual sensitivity. The ultimate aim of all these inquiries is to outline Krasiński’s relationship with the arts (beaux arts) in the context of the aesthetic preferences of the epoch.

Bibliography of Periodical Literature

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 114-128
Author(s):  
Norbert Scholz
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Periodical Literature ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Arab Israeli Conflict

This bibliography lists articles and reviews of books relevant to Palestine and the Arab-Israeli conflict from the quarter 16 August–15 November 2018. Entries are classified under the following headings: Palestine in Global and Comparative Perspectives; Palestine and the Palestinians; Literature and the Arts; Middle East and the Arab World; Israel and Zionism; and Recent Dissertations.

Hooke recommemorated

1996 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-140
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Domestic Life ◽  
Robert Hooke ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
Personal Interaction ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Christ Church ◽  
History Of

Richard Nichols, The Diaries of Robert Hooke, The Leonardo of London, 1635-1703 . Lewes, Sussex: The Book Guild, 1994, Pp. 185, £15.00. ISBN 0- 86332-930-6. Richard Nichols is a science master turned historian of science who celebrates in this book Robert Hooke’s contributions to the arts and sciences. The appreciation brings together comments from Hooke’s Diaries , and other works, on each of his main enterprises, and on his personal interaction with each of his principal friends and foes. Further references to Hooke and his activities are drawn from Birch’s History of the Royal Society, Aubrey’s Brief Lives , and the Diaries of Evelyn and of Pepys. The first section of the book, ‘Hooke the Man’, covers his early years of education at home in Freshwater, at Westminster school and at Christ Church, Oxford, where he soon joined the group of experimental philosophers who set him up as Curator of the Royal Society and Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, Bishopsgate. Hooke’s domestic life at Gresham College is described - his intimate relationships with a series of housekeepers, including his niece, Grace Hooke, and his social life at the College and in the London coffee houses.

Modernismo: The Catalan Renaissance of the Arts (Outstanding Dissertations in the Fine Arts)

1980 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 333
Author(s):  
Phyllis Braff ◽  
Joseph Phillip Cervera
Keyword(s):  
Fine Arts ◽  
The Arts
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