The Role of Mathematical Structure, Natural Form, and Pattern in the Art Theory of Wassily Kandinsky: The Quest for Order and Unity

2012 ◽  
pp. 74-90
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Structure ◽  
Art Theory ◽  
Natural Form ◽  
Wassily Kandinsky

scholarly journals Folic acid – role in the body, recommendations and clinical significance

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aneta Myszczyszyn ◽  
Rafał Krajewski ◽  
Monika Ostapów ◽  
Lidia Hirnle
Keyword(s):  
Folic Acid ◽  
Biological Effects ◽  
Folic Acid Supplementation ◽  
The Body ◽  
Leafy Vegetables ◽  
Congenital Defects ◽  
Natural Form ◽  
Vitamin B9 ◽  
Increased Risk

AbstractIntroduction. Folic acid is a compound classified as B group vitamins. In the body it is subject to processes that transfer its inactive form into a form responsible for biological effects of folic acid, i.e. 5-methyltetrahydrofolate (5-MTHF). It is, in particular, responsible for processes of the correct biosynthesis of purine and pyridine bases present in the formation of DNA and RNA molecules. Humans do not synthesize the endogenous form of folic acid; therefore, it is vital to supplement this vitamin in its natural form or multivitamin preparations. The most folic acid is found in the green leafy vegetables (spinach, peas, asparagus) and in offal (liver). An adequate supply of folic acid is especially indicated in pregnant women with a reduced amount of folic acid due to its use by an intensively developing foetus. The recommended dose of folic acid during this period is 0.4 mg/24h and this dose varies depending on the patient’s and her family’s medical history. The updated state of knowledge on the role of vitamin B9 in the body has been presented. The importance of its supplementation in specific clinical cases was analyzed.Summary. Many studies indicate an important role of the folic acid in the prevention of congenital defects of the nervous, cardiovascular and urogenital systems. Its deficiency increases the risk of complications in pregnancy, such as recurrent miscarriages, pre-eclampsia or postpartum haemorrhage. For this reason, a prophylactic folic acid supplementation is recommended, in women with increased risk of its deficiency, in particular.

A ‘milky mass’ and ‘uniform material’: white marble in eighteenth-century French discourses on sculpture and geology

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-225
Author(s):  
Marthe Kretzschmar
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Grain Size ◽  
Denis Diderot ◽  
Art Theory ◽  
White Marble ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The Earth ◽  
History Of ◽  
Interdisciplinary Network

Knowledge of the materiality of stone during the Enlightenment expanded following the exploration of mineralogical structure, to alter ideas about taxonomy and challenge the role of rocks in the history of the earth. Close studies of the material of marble sculpture generated expertise on grain size, surface varieties and stone deposits. This mode of reception became intertwined with contemporary controversies about the age of the earth. This article focuses on both French sculpture and geological discourses of the eighteenth century to reveal an international and interdisciplinary network centring on protagonists such as Denis Diderot, Paul-Henri Thiry d’Holbach and Étienne-Maurice Falconet; through these figures, debates can be connected concerning both geology and art theory. Within these contexts, the article discusses the translation processes between these artistic and geological interests.

Michel Butor’s “Improvisations sur Rimbaud”: interpretation of the poet’s works and language

2021 ◽  
pp. 44-49
Author(s):  
Olga A. Vasileva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Classical System ◽  
Mathematical Structure ◽  
Literary Forms ◽  
The Arts ◽  
French Writer ◽  
Aesthetic Principle ◽  
The City ◽  
Experimental Prose

This article discusses one relatively unknown aspect of the French writer and philosopher, Michel Butor’s works — his literary criticism through the example of “Improvisations sur Rimbaud”. Poet’s works are investigated by Butor unattainable apart from the stages of his life, and the most significant poems — in the context of the epistolary heritage of Rimbaud. Most attention is paid to the chapter “Improvisations”, dedicated to the collection of Rimbaud’s “Illuminations”: to the development of the theme of the city and its transformation, the role of structural rhyme and reprise at the beginning of the line overturning the classical system of versification, the appearance in the texts of Rimbaud mathematical structure. The new poetic language, the innovative artistic techniques of the poet , which are used in the composition of a number of texts in the collection, comprehensively explored by Butor, had an undeniable influence on the direction of the research for new literary forms in the works of Butor: his novel “Degrès”, which uses the numerical structure as a method of total description of reality as well as a number of texts written in the genre of experimental prose in which fragmentation is elevated to an aesthetic principle, the idea of synthesizing the arts is implemented and endless intertextual interactions are created.

Orbit of an Image Under Iterated System II

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 57-74
Author(s):  
S. L. Singh ◽  
S. N. Mishra ◽  
Sarika Jain
Keyword(s):  
Fractal Geometry ◽  
Iterative Procedure ◽  
Iterated Function System ◽  
Mathematical Structure ◽  
Program Code ◽  
Computational Mathematics ◽  
Fractal Image ◽  
Iterated Function ◽  
Iterative Procedures

An orbital picture is a mathematical structure depicting the path of an object under Iterated Function System. Orbital and V-variable orbital pictures initially developed by Barnsley (2006) have utmost importance in computer graphics, image compression, biological modeling and other areas of fractal geometry. These pictures have been generated for linear and contractive transformations using function and superior iterative procedures. In this paper, the authors introduce the role of superior iterative procedure to find the orbital picture under an IFS consisting of non-contractive or non-expansive transformations. A mild comparison of the computed figures indicates the usefulness of study in computational mathematics and fractal image processing. A modified algorithm along with program code is given to compute a 2-variable superior orbital picture.

The Use of Printed Images for Instrument-Making 
at the Arsenius Workshop

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 124-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Gessner
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Mathematical Structure ◽  
Complex Task ◽  
Instrument Making ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Workshop Practice

Mathematical instruments in the early-modern period lay at the intersection of various knowledge traditions, both practical and scholarly. Scholars treated instrument-related questions in their works, while instrument makers and mathematical practitioners also put much energy into producing instrument books. Assessing the role of that literature in the exchange of knowledge between the different traditions is a complex task. Did it directly influence workshop practice? Here, I will examine instruments from a famous Louvain workshop ca. 1570, focussing on the role of printed images. I will suggest that woodcuts did indeed inspire instrument makers; that images were sometimes more important than the text; and that the viewer’s appreciation of the images depended upon his familiarity with an instrument’s mathematical structure.


Art in Its Experience: Can Empirical Psychology Help Assess Artistic Value?

Leonardo ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 367-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rolf Reber
Keyword(s):  
Implicit Measures ◽  
Art Theory ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Demand Characteristics ◽  
Empirical Psychology ◽  
Artistic Value

This article outlines the roles of art theory and empirical psychology in understanding a work of art in its experience. Art theory sets the criteria of what the experience should be, and psychologists examine whether the predicted experience matches the observed experience of the recipient. An important issue is the role of knowledge in artistic evaluation, with resulting demand characteristics and concerns for self-presentation. With the help of recently developed implicit measures, both behavioral and biological, researchers are able to distinguish between explicitly reported knowledge and genuinely felt experience. The author presents examples of how art theory and empirical psychology might interact and how psychology can be used to examine a work's artistic value.

Artifact & Artifice: Views on Life

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Dorin
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Life ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Wassily Kandinsky ◽  
Steve Reich ◽  
Musical Works

The views of some artists on what constitutes life are explored, with the aim of challenging those within the artificial life research community to rethink and perhaps expand their own views about the term and its meaningful application. The focus is on the musical works of Steve Reich and the paintings of Wassily Kandinsky. The role of the observer in determining when it is appropriate to label a thing as living is also discussed.

scholarly journals The normal distribution, an epistemological view

St open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Benjamin Benzon
Keyword(s):  
Central Limit Theorem ◽  
Limit Theorem ◽  
Normal Distribution ◽  
Laws Of Nature ◽  
Mathematical Structure ◽  
Model Parameters ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Estimation Of Model Parameters ◽  
Von Mises

The role of the normal distribution in the realm of statistical inference and science is considered from epistemological viewpoint. Quantifiable knowledge is usually embodied in mathematical models. History and emergence of the normal distribution is presented in a close relationship to those models. Furthermore, the role of the normal distribution in estimation of model parameters, starting with Laplace’s Central Limit Theorem, through maximum likelihood theory leading to Bronstein von Mises and Convolution Theorems, is discussed. The paper concludes with the claim that our knowledge on the effects of variables in models or laws of nature has a mathematical structure which is identical to the normal distribution. The epistemological consequences of the latter claim are also considered.

Remediating the New Media

2020 ◽  
pp. 120-141
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
New Media ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Film Theory ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Media Production ◽  
Art Theory ◽  
Film And Video

By applying the researching devices of media studies, art theory, film theory, philosophy, and cultural studies as a theoretical background, this chapter aims to explore the role of remediation in new media production, where the digital procedures enable smooth interaction, remixes, mashups, and hybridization. Remediation brings the dynamics into the institution of contemporary art and electronic literature by stimulating traditional and new media to refashion each other and generate novel hybrids at the intersection of several media (e.g. animated digital textuality which refashions film and video) as well as media contexts. Although the key reference of this chapter is Bolter and Grusin's theory of immediacy, hypermediacy, and remediation, the issues of post-remediation theory are addressed as well.

Concerning the Spiritual in Art: Magnificent Obsession and the Influence of Modernist Painting

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria L. Evans
Keyword(s):  
Small Town ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Popular Press ◽  
Art Theory ◽  
Formal Approach ◽  
Wassily Kandinsky ◽  
Musical Comedy ◽  
The Relationship

Chapter 2 investigates the influence of Modernist art and art theory on this highly sophisticated film artist's formal approach, which includes a rereading of Magnificent Obsession that has been deeply informed by the writings of the pioneering German Expressionist painter Wassily Kandinsky. Some mid-century American responses to Modernist art published in the popular press are also scrutinised before looking at Sirk's depiction of the other characters' reactions to the self-described "Surrealist" artist that appears in his 1951 small town musical comedy Has Anybody Seen My Gal? Finally, two texts that have previously addressed the relationship between film and painting, Brigitte Peucker's Incorporating Images: Film and the Rival Arts and Angela Dalle Vacche's Cinema and Painting: How Art is Used in Film, are considered in passing.

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