Network of Visual Arts and Contemporary Art Pattern Reorganization

2013 ◽  
Vol 321-324 ◽  
pp. 1102-1106
Author(s):  
Wen Jing Zhong
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Visual Information ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Visual Space ◽  
Basic Structure ◽  
Production Method ◽  
Space Environment ◽  
Real Situation ◽  
Expression Platform

This article, based on changes in the pattern of study of contemporary art network of visual arts, contemporary art in the space environment of the network visual arts, visual arts language of visual media, interactive cyberspace realm of art, information and digital communication art platform for contemporary art pattern the basic structure of the reorganization. Through integration of the modern network multi-media production technology and visual vision production method, the traditional art like Painting, Architecture art and Dace could form a new form of art performance and visual language, and enriched the modern context of art dialogue and culture space, which is the new construction of network visual art to the modern art pattern. Compared with the real world, it is virtual and transcendent, however, Network of Visual art provided a real situation of visual experience and psychological experience to a expanding real situation. By the use of network visual space and various visual information, the thinking way and expression platform of modern digital art creation have been extended and expanded.

Axis: broadening the constituency and extending the sphere of influence of visual art

1998 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 8-11
Author(s):  
Doug Sandle
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Information Resource ◽  
Text Data ◽  
Widening Access ◽  
Visual Text ◽  
Sphere Of Influence ◽  
National Information

The Axis database is the only national information resource on British artists and craftmakers. It contains visual-text data on over 2,500 contemporary British practitioners and is a rapidly growing source of data for researchers, students, curators, commissioning agents, architects, planners and patrons and purchasers of visual arts. Axis also has an important national role in promoting contemporary art and artists and widening access to visual culture.

scholarly journals Changes in the themes, aesthetics and functions of public images in Kyiv due to the influence of socio-cultural processes in the society of 1990-2010

2021 ◽  
pp. 183-194
Author(s):  
Mariia Ospishcheva-Pavlyshyn
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Public Art ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Practical Aspect ◽  
Cultural Processes ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Theoretical Developments

On the back of the rapid development in public art in recent decades, and in particular graffiti and muralism, interest in them has grown significantly among cultural studies scholars, art critics, architects, sociologists, and urban planners. Numerous works that have appeared in the West and in Ukraine are devoted to various aspects of the visual public art existence. This theme continues to be one of the most relevant for contemporary visual art. This article complements the bunch of acquired knowledge with a detailed study of the impact of socio-cultural processes in society on the changes that took place in monumental painting, graffiti and muralism in Kyiv during 1990–2010, i.e. during the most important changes in politics and society in recent decades. The peculiarities of each historical stage of this influence are analysed and outlined in the study, and the theoretical analysis is displayed by the description of the most characteristic works. Most of them are researched in detail. In addition, the process of decline of monumental painting in the late 1980s and early 1990s is analysed, the factors of graffiti flourishing in the 1990s are identified and highlighted, and the origins of the rapid development of muralism after 2004 and especially after 2014 are explored. At each stage, changes in the themes, aesthetics and functions of public images are traced. The definitions, such as muralism and graffiti, are updated in this paper, taking into account changes in art and the latest achievements in its analysis. The manifestations of the national-patriotic themes in the contemporary art of muralism are considered in detail, the classification of art work on this subject is given, the corresponding examples are given. Such concepts as public art, synthesis of arts, monumental painting, graffiti, muralism are attentively aligned. The study of the nature of the socio-cultural processes and visual arts correlations is promising for further scientific and theoretical developments and the practical aspect for better understanding of the specific works

scholarly journals THE USE OF TRIZ (TIPS) METHODS FOR THE PERCEPTION OF THE MODERN VISUAL ART

2021 ◽  
pp. 29-40
Author(s):  
T. I. Lagaeva ◽  
A. I. Simak
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Art History ◽  
Visual Information ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Research Abstract ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Communication Effectiveness ◽  
Conscious Perception

The purpose of this investigation is the search and development of the methodological tools for the use of the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ/TIPS) for a deep and conscious perception of the modern visual arts by future artists and by professional painters in general. Methodology. The theoretical fundamentals of the research became the works of the researchers in the field of social-humanitarian sciences: culturology, art history, philosophy, semiotics. One can refer to the methodological basics the use of systemic, structural-semiotic and post-structural approaches. Results. In the process of the research, the differentiation, systematization and classification of methods of shaping in visual arts by adapting TRIZ methods was realized. The visual information for every TRIZ method was collected. As an example, we suggested a research abstract for the «Mediator» method, including a selection and the interpretation of the images, the analysis of method’s functions and their peculiarities, their specifics and resource possibilities. Scientific novelty. The scientific novelty consists in the fact that the authors have investigated the artistic works on the basis of adapted TRIZ methods, identified the variants of use of these methods and their functional meaning. Practical significance. The practical significance of the research consists in a deep analysis of semantic and esthetic components of the works of art, which can promote the enhancement of the artistic communication effectiveness and higher realization of the artists.

scholarly journals The Image of the Virgin Mary in the Visual Arts of Modern Russia

ICONI ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 48-57
Author(s):  
Zulfiya U. Guseva ◽  
◽  
Galina V. Alekseeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Virgin Mary ◽  
Russian Art ◽  
Art Works ◽  
Spiritual Tradition ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Cultural Code

The article is devoted to the issue of the continuity of the Russian pictorial tradition and the representation of spiritual meanings in contemporary Russian art. The authors aims to consider the image of the Virgin Mary as part of the cultural code of Russia. The object of the research is the materials of the visual art works by contemporary Russian artists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, studied from the perspective of their Byzantine origins. The subject of this research is the image of the Virgin Mary in contemporary Russian visual art. The result of the research is an understanding of the forms of transformation of the canon of spiritual tradition in contemporary art.

scholarly journals The Educating Role of Visual Arts

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Palhares - University of Minho
Keyword(s):  
Art Education ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Community Involvement ◽  
Arts Education ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Visual Arts Education ◽  
Active Player ◽  
Wide Range

This article discusses contemporary visual arts education current changes. Visual Arts Education is frequently underestimated by most European Curriculum which often gave and still gives priority to other knowledge areas. Nevertheless, culture industries like museums and a wide range of culture and social organizations are doing the opposite, leading visual art education to an increasingly dissemination, even if it is always less than we all expect. This article also focus on a current shift and which seems to be a kind of paradox: visual art education services from alternative culture institutions are becoming integrated on school activities. By recognizing Visual Art Education Value, culture institutions are trying to develop different approaches in order to engage visual arts with communities. By informing and promoting creative thinking, they are trying to reach community involvement and, consequently, breaking down barriers when necessary. In a more and more globalized world, it is urgent to rethink culture, ethnical, social, economical and political diversities and here is where visual arts education can become a more active player. Art always allowed man to create different worlds in our world as Nelson Goodman affirmed. By creating new worlds, art offers possibilities on new world perspectives and therefore it also might make possible a great miracle, which is the possibility of changing into a better world! Isn´t that what next Documenta 14 is doing? Documenta 14, Kassel, considered the world's largest and most prestigious exhibition of contemporary art, will be held in Athens, Greece, and Kassel, Germany, under the following theme: Learning from Athens. Both - visual art education and contemporary art - seem to share this wish and determination in changing to a better world by implicating local, national and international community. And Art always seemed to be a great `educator´ throughout mankind history.

Art, History, and Postwar Fiction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Brazil
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Art History ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
New Left ◽  
Doris Lessing ◽  
William Gaddis ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Historical Developments ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
The Relationship

Art, History, and Postwar Fiction explores the ways in which novelists responded to the visual arts from the aftermath of the Second World War up to the present day. If art had long served as a foil to enable novelists to reflect on their craft, this book argues that in the postwar period, novelists turned to the visual arts to develop new ways of conceptualizing the relationship between literature and history. The sense that the novel was becalmed in the end of history was pervasive in the postwar decades. In seeming to bring modernism to a climax whilst repeating its foundational gestures, visual art also raised questions about the relationship between continuity and change in the development of art. In chapters on Samuel Beckett, William Gaddis, John Berger, and W. G. Sebald, and shorter discussions of writers like Doris Lessing, Kathy Acker, and Teju Cole, this book shows that writing about art was often a means of commenting on historical developments of the period: the Cold War, the New Left, the legacy of the Holocaust. Furthermore, it argues that forms of postwar visual art, from abstraction to the readymade, offered novelists ways of thinking about the relationship between form and history that went beyond models of reflection or determination. By doing so, this book also argues that attention to interactions between literature and art can provide critics with new ways to think about the relationship between literature and history beyond reductive oppositions between formalism and historicism, autonomy and context.

Mutable Views

2019 ◽  
pp. 52-70
Author(s):  
Johanne Sloan
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Landscape Art ◽  
Experimental Films ◽  
Contemporary Artists

This chapter addresses the contemporary renewal of landscape art in Canada, arising at the intersection of visual art and cinema. Artworks, installations, and experimental films are discussed according to four categories: figure/ground, spatial illusions, the historicity of landscape, and digital scenery. Landscape—as a distinct art historical genre, conventional cinematic background, and ideological ground—has historically played a key role in Canadian visual culture. The contemporary artists and filmmakers in question have remade landscape in pictorial terms by remixing legacies from the visual arts and cinema and also in political terms, by calling attention to the damaged natural world of the Anthropocene, confronting Indigenous claims to the land, and foregrounding struggles over nationhood, identity, and collective memory.

scholarly journals Medialness and the Perception of Visual Art

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederic Fol Leymarie ◽  
Prashant Aparajeya
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Medial Axis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mathematical Representation ◽  
Creative Performance ◽  
Core Feature ◽  
Art Analysis ◽  
The One ◽  
Cartoon Animation

In this article we explore the practical use of medialness informed by perception studies as a representation and processing layer for describing a class of works of visual art. Our focus is towards the description of 2D objects in visual art, such as found in drawings, paintings, calligraphy, graffiti writing, where approximate boundaries or lines delimit regions associated to recognizable objects or their constitutive parts. We motivate this exploration on the one hand by considering how ideas emerging from the visual arts, cartoon animation and general drawing practice point towards the likely importance of medialness in guiding the interaction of the traditionally trained artist with the artifact. On the other hand, we also consider recent studies and results in cognitive science which point in similar directions in emphasizing the likely importance of medialness, an extension of the abstract mathematical representation known as ‘medial axis’ or ‘Voronoi graphs’, as a core feature used by humans in perceiving shapes in static or dynamic scenarios. We illustrate the use of medialness in computations performed with finished artworks as well as artworks in the process of being created, modified, or evolved through iterations. Such computations may be used to guide an artificial arm in duplicating the human creative performance or used to study in greater depth the finished artworks. Our implementations represent a prototyping of such applications of computing to art analysis and creation and remain exploratory. Our method also provides a possible framework to compare similar artworks or to study iterations in the process of producing a final preferred depiction, as selected by the artist.

Adult Cortical Dynamics

1998 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 467-485 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHARLES D. GILBERT
Keyword(s):  
Visual Cortex ◽  
Functional Properties ◽  
Primary Visual Cortex ◽  
Visual Information ◽  
Visual Space ◽  
Visual Pathway ◽  
Local Features ◽  
Spatial Integration ◽  
Cortical Dynamics ◽  
Wide Range

Gilbert, Charles D. Adult Cortical Dynamics. Physiol. Rev. 78: 467–485, 1998. — There are many influences on our perception of local features. What we see is not strictly a reflection of the physical characteristics of a scene but instead is highly dependent on the processes by which our brain attempts to interpret the scene. As a result, our percepts are shaped by the context within which local features are presented, by our previous visual experiences, operating over a wide range of time scales, and by our expectation of what is before us. The substrate for these influences is likely to be found in the lateral interactions operating within individual areas of the cerebral cortex and in the feedback from higher to lower order cortical areas. Even at early stages in the visual pathway, cells are far more flexible in their functional properties than previously thought. It had long been assumed that cells in primary visual cortex had fixed properties, passing along the product of a stereotyped operation to the next stage in the visual pathway. Any plasticity dependent on visual experience was thought to be restricted to a period early in the life of the animal, the critical period. Furthermore, the assembly of contours and surfaces into unified percepts was assumed to take place at high levels in the visual pathway, whereas the receptive fields of cells in primary visual cortex represented very small windows on the visual scene. These concepts of spatial integration and plasticity have been radically modified in the past few years. The emerging view is that even at the earliest stages in the cortical processing of visual information, cells are highly mutable in their functional properties and are capable of integrating information over a much larger part of visual space than originally believed.

scholarly journals «The Great Neurosis» of Jacques Loysel and Alfred Kubin

2020 ◽  
pp. 144-149
Author(s):  
D. O. Martynova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Visual Image ◽  
Lost Generation ◽  
Disciplinary Power ◽  
Graphic Artist ◽  
Art Practices ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Pathological Image

On the example of the work «The Great Neurosis» by the French sculptor Jacques Loysel and «Europe» by the Austrian graphic artist Alfred Kubin, it is described and analyzed how artists gave characteristics of changes in their eras, using the same visual image associated with a mental illness. It is proved that while Loysel’s artwork was associated with the latest discoveries in medicine, then Kubin’s artwork was reinterpreted in a new way, reflecting the problems and experiences of the «lost generation». From this it follows that the example of the works «The Great Neurosis» and «Europe» by Loysel and Kubin can be traced not only to evolution, but also to the introduction of the pathological image of the “hysterical body” both in the art of the XXth century and in contemporary art practices. Such a study demonstrates the relevance and signifi cance of studying the links between, as well as the analysis of the impact of mechanisms of institutions of disciplinary power on the visual arts of various eras.

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