scholarly journals Certain aesthetic aspects of art of the Symbolists

2020 ◽  
pp. 50-65
Author(s):  
Victor Bychkov
Keyword(s):  
Creative Expression ◽  
Artistic Expression ◽  
Female Images ◽  
Religious Images ◽  
Religious Theme ◽  
Symbolic Images ◽  
Gustave Moreau ◽  
The Demonic

This article is dedicated to examination of the main creative motifs of the artists of Symbolism: eternal femininity, living landscape, mythological and religious images in their not uncommon intersection in a single artwork and expressed by fine artistic means. The goal is set to demonstrate how such pointers as Maurice Denis, Odelon Redon, Gustave Moreau, Franz von Stuck and Mikhail Vrubel, using the means of artistic reflection of the listed thematic lines, were able to create the unique symbolic images. Special attention is given to the symbolist specificity of creative expression, embrace of the metaphysical bases of the depicted. Such approach allowed determining the exquisite harmony of landscape and female images (Denis); initiation of the mystical and unknown in lilac-purple twilight demonic spirituality of the night landscape and artistic expression of the demonic itself (Vrubel); demonstration that being charmed by the mystical, embrace of the abstract origin of landscape lead the work with a religious theme to the expression of mystical elements of being (Redon); while combination of classicist clarity of the image with symbolist mystery and abstract picturesqueness creates a myth itself as an increment of the profound sacral nonverbal knowledge (Moreau).

Artistic Expression through (Re)Creation: Children’s Play Songs in Ghana

Utafiti ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-64
Author(s):  
Helen Yitah
Keyword(s):  
Creative Expression ◽  
Artistic Expression ◽  
Northern Ghana ◽  
Creative Performance ◽  
Creative Agency ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
Creative Resistance ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
The Aesthetic

Abstract This paper examines rural Ghanaian children’s creative performance of play songs in the context of recent scholarship on children’s rights in children’s literature. This scholarship, which has focused mainly on written literature in western contexts, seeks to give serious literary attention to children’s creative expression and thereby uphold their rights to contribute to the artistic life and culture of their societies. Kasena children of northern Ghana exhibit creative agency in adapting traditional play songs to new situations, as they re-create and reinterpret communal idioms, imagery and symbols, thus generating new forms, new concepts and new meanings. I illustrate the aesthetic qualities and transgressive features of this phenomenon by drawing on relevant indigenous Kasem concepts about art and creative resistance. If taken seriously, this dynamic heritage of children’s poetry can help us see emerging play genres as an affirmation of children’s creativity, and prompt a redefinition of ideas about childhood.

scholarly journals THE PSYCHOLOGICAL ROLE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF ARTISTIC CREATIVE EXPRESSION IN OLDER AGE

2018 ◽  
pp. 257-283
Author(s):  
Almira Isić-Imamović ◽  
Adis Elias Fejzić
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Creative Expression ◽  
Older Age ◽  
Artistic Expression ◽  
Creative Potential ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Motivation For Learning

The aim of the research was to investigate the psychological role and significance of artistic creative expression in older age through the personal experience of people who paint or mold as a hobby. Seven participants (six female and one male), aged 65-69, took part in the research. A qualitative research method, i.e. a semi-structured interview, was used to get a deep insight into the psychological role and significance of artistic creative expression in older age. Based on the qualitative analysis of the participants’ answers related to the psychological role and significance of artistic creative expression in older age, six subcategories were distinguished (artistic expression as an adaptive way of dealing with stressful life situations; the presence of pleasant emotions during art creation; creative potential development; motivation for learning and advancement in art, the improvement of the quality of social life, increasing self-confidence while being involved in art and teaching art techniques to others) which indicate that artistic expression in older age contributes to the development of emotional stability, creative potential, maintenance of cognitive functions (learning, memory, thinking and attention), prevention of cognitive impairment, improving the quality of social life and increasing the self-confidence of the elderly.

scholarly journals The Cultural Chronicle and the Historical Reality of Half a Century of Dragan Karadžić’s Creative Catharsis

2019 ◽  
pp. 187-201
Author(s):  
Brankica Bojović
Keyword(s):  
Creative Expression ◽  
Artistic Expression ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Historical Reality ◽  
Insight Into

This study gives an insight into Karadžić’s creative work from the aspect of culture and historical reality. It involves a culturological and creative analysis. A review is offered of research on the creative work of this artist in society and his catharsis in various cultural and historical contexts, from the aspect of culture, as a chronicle of society and in terms of pictorial expression. His artistic expression and the semantics of creative interpretation through the chronological method in the research indirectly reveal a cathartic boost given to this artist’s steps in his creative expression. The study will be inspirational for hronological approaches regarding creativity in the Balkan cultural area.

The semantics of religious images in the art of the renaissance

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (152) ◽  
pp. 106-113
Author(s):  
V. M. Kavun ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Great Power ◽  
Spiritual Values ◽  
Religious Images ◽  
The World ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
Religious Theme ◽  
Basic Ideas ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Church

Purpose of research is to consider the culture and art of the Renaissance and explore the semantics of religious images of the outlined period. Methodology. The tasks posed in this work led to the use of the following research methods, namely: analysis and synthesis, generalization and systematization of theoretical material, comparison and generalization of the result obtained in the process of studying theoretical material and specialized publications covering this issue. The solution of the tasks was achieved by applying the comparative historical, descriptive, logical and systemic methods. Scientific Novelty. The semantics of biblical images in the works of Renaissance artists are revealed. Conclusions. In the Renaissance, a completely new self-consciousness of a person is formed, among spiritual values, preference is given to the nobility and personal merits of the person. The meaning of life is not laid in the salvation of the soul, but in creativity, self-knowledge, serving humanity, society and not God. God, giving man free will, gave him the right to create his own destiny and determine his place in the world. Since the church of that time still had great power, the basic ideas of artists of that time were embodied in works with a religious theme, but in their painting, there were existing contradictions between the humanistic, deep life content ant traditional religious subjects. The works of the renaissance conveyed the being of the person around whom the biblical painting took place, all this was on one plane.

scholarly journals Religijos įvaizdžių konstravimo principai sovietmečio Lietuvos meniniuose kino ir televizijos filmuose antireliginės propagandos kontekste: predispozijų aspektas

2013 ◽  
Vol 66 ◽  
pp. 7-33
Author(s):  
Modestas Grigaliūnas
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Tool ◽  
Artistic Expression ◽  
Religious Images ◽  
Special Space

Straipsnyje gilinamasi į sovietmečio Lietuvos meniniuose antireliginiuose kino ir TV filmuose „Pasigailėk mūsų“ (1978 m.) ir „Devyni nuopuolio ratai“ (1984 m.) taikytus religijos įvaizdžių konstravimo principus antireliginės visuomenės indoktrinacijos kontekste ir teigiama, kad religijos (katalikybės), jos simbolių, katalikų dvasininkijos, Katalikų Bažnyčios ir pan. vaizdiniai tokiuose filmuose buvo paremti specialiu filmų siužeto, pasakojamos istorijos vystymu, jos erdvės parinkimu ir kitomis meninės išraiškos priemonėmis. Šių principų identifikavimas straipsnyje yra derinamas su teoriniais predispozicijų analizės aspektais, kurių kaip analitinės prieigos taikymas leidžia aptarti antireliginės sovietmečio propagandos suponuotus religijos vaizdinius resimbolizacijos atžvilgiu.Pagrindiniai žodžiai: antireliginė propaganda, kolektyvinės predispozicijos, resimbolizacija, sovietmečio kinematografija, meniniai kino filmai, Lietuvos kino studija, „Pasigailėk mūsų“, „Devyni nuopuolio ratai“.Principles of the religious images’ construction in the cinema and television feature movies of Soviet Lithuania: the aspect of predispositions  Modestas Grigaliūnas SummaryThe principles of religious images construction in the cinema and television feature antireligious movies of soviet Lithuania are analyzed in the article in the context of the antireligious indoctrination of the society. By analyzing two movies created in Lithuania in the 1970s–1980s – Pasigailėk mūsų (1978) and Devyni nuopuolio ratai (1984) – it is argued that the images of the religion (Catholicism), its symbols, Catholic priesthood, etc. have been based on a special development of a movie plot and the narrative of a story, on the special space of such story, and other means of artistic expression. The identification of such principles is matched with the theoretical aspects of the predispositions’ analysis. Such an analytical tool allows to discuss the “religious“ images by the antireligious soviet propaganda in respect to the resymbolization process.  

The role of the self in creative expression

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristin Donnelly ◽  
Radmila Prislin ◽  
Ryan Nicholls
Keyword(s):  
Creative Expression ◽  
The Self
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