CORRELATION BETWEEN SOCIAL FEEDBACK AND ARTISTIC MOTIVATION AMONG FINE ARTS STUDENTS

Art is an essential component of human life. It is a necessary discipline in the educational system of every society and is considered a professional field because it requires skills and mental capabilities to be presented as a concept. Most importantly, artistic concepts are created for evaluation. Hence, feedbacks are integral to creative art. The primary objective of the current study was to examine the artistic motivation of fine art students based on social feedback. One hundred and six (n = 106) students enrolled in fine and applied art departments in tertiary institutions in Kogi State, Nigeria, were employed as the studys participants. Data were collected using self-report measures. The simple linear regression analysis performed on the data established a positive correlation between social feedback and artistic motivation. The study concludes that social feedback is an essential component of artistic creativity.

CONTEMPORARY ART SCENARIO IN THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH

The Art activity in the state of Andhra Pradesh was pioneered by Damerla Ramarao and Varada Venkataratnam with the help some English officers and some of their disciples. Later whole art activity is concentrated at Hyderabad till the state bifurcation in 2014. The Art education and Institutions were discussed in details. The arrival of Baroda school product has helped us to mark our self as distinct school on the cultural map of India with help of Ravinder G Reddy, V.Ramesh, T.Sudhakara Reddy, CRS Patnaik and Dr. K.Mrutyunjaya Rao. These masters has succeeded to paved a bridge between art and Contemporary art of India. Later the product of Andhra art school has spreaded all over the state and country. Two art departments emerged in the region of Rayalaseema under the lead of Dr.K. Mrutyunjaya Rao. Due to state bifurcation, the major art activity and development has gone to Telangana. The Residual Andhra Pradesh has lost so much. Many of Andhra Artists settled at other states for bread and butter. But now recovering slowly. KEY WORDS: Damerla Rama Rao , Baroda, Contemporary, Aesthetic, Scrap Sculpture, Kadapa,

Modern Approaches to the Study of Music of the Twentieth Century

the subject of research – modern academic music of the 20th century is a special kind of art, the effective development of which by students of art departments and universities requires appropriate methods. The purpose of the work is to consider problematic teaching methods that ensure the effective mastery of complex artistic material by university students who do not have sympathy for 20th century music. To verify the effectiveness of the application of problem learning techniques when students mastered avantgarde music, a pedagogical experiment was conducted to introduce problem problems, the case method and the design method into the process of mastering musical and historical disciplines. The study carried out a theoretical justification and introduced into creative practice the methods considered, which made it possible to involve the student in the development of discipline in the process of creative activity, which significantly increases the level of cognitive activity and contributes to the formation of students; to solve the problem of modern musical skill, students of the musical and pedagogical profile of education were presented with problem problems, and the task requiring brainstorming – to practically “guess” the alleged image of the author – had the necessary didactic effect. Methodological recommendations related to the use of problematic methods in music education are formulated.

OUT-OF-SCHOOL ESTABLISHMENTS OF TRANSCARPATHIA AND THEIR ROLE IN THE SYSTEM OF ART EDUCATION

The retrospective analysis of emergence of out-of-school art education of the region is made in the article, organization and role of extracurricular education in Ukraine, its organizers and researchers in this field. The emergence and development of art school of Transcarpathia in the twentieth century led to the formation of new generations of artists and the creation of art education. Out-of-school educational establishments of artistic and aesthetic direction were created for young children of the first school age, the first of which was a studio of fine arts under the direction of Zoltan Bakonii. Following the example of this studio in Transcarpathia in the second half of the twentieth century. opened children's art schools with the department of fine arts in the cities of Mukachevo, Uzhhorod, Khust, Vynohradiv, v.Chynadiyevo, etc., where teachers were mostly graduates of Transcarpathian art educational establishments. The development of art education in Transcarpathia and the extracurricular education of the region was studied by Nebesnyk I. I., Voloshchuk A .V, Mochan T. M, Rosul T. I. In the system of art education in Transcarpathia, founded by Adalbert Erdeli and Joseph Boksai, such well-known teachers as V. Skakandii, I. Masniuk, N. Ponomarenko, M. Syrohman, L. Prymych, V. Manailo, E. Roman, T. Bartosh, H. Homoki, V. Dorosh, A. StasIuk and others studied and worked there. Important role in the development of regional extracurricular education of artistic and aesthetic orientation belongs to such well-known pedagogues-educators as V. Burch and V. Tsibere. They played a major role in the creation of Mukachevo Children's ArtSchool named after M. Munkachi. This school of arts, after Z. Bakonii's studio, is one of the first art schools in the field where fine arts is taught. Later the art departments were based on children's music schools. The fine arts department at Uzhhorod Children's School of Arts started its activity in 1984. Most of the teachers came to Zoltan Bakonii's schools: V. Vovchok, O. Sidoruk, G. Kramarenko, E. Roman (head of the department of fine art) and others. Over 200 students study at the fine arts department of named school. During the 1990s, Transcarpathian extracurricular institutions were stagnant and even have undergone a numerical reduction. Since the beginning of 2000, as a result of the successful management of local administrations and their successful policies, their activities have been normalized and coordinated with the work of leading educational establishments of the art education of the region, in particular the College of Arts named after A. Erdeli and the Transcarpathian Academy of Arts. The joint actions and events, workshops for the students of art schools of the region, as well as training courses and seminars for teachers are held. Therefore, in the system of continuous art education (school, college, academy), extra-curricular institutions play an important role. At the School of Arts children learn the basics of fine literacy, academic drawing, painting, composition and get acquainted with examples of the world's best art at the Art history lessons. It is at the School of Arts that the artistic and aesthetic tastes and sensations of beauty are formed, the aesthetic education of young people, its professional orientation, and the formation of artistic environment of the region. In the field of art education, this three-stages system is important, because it solves its sectoral tasks and is a very important link and system of continuous art education in Transcarpathia.

Study of Body Posture in Latin Dance and Its Important Significance

<p>In this fast-developing era of the 21st century, the spread of culture is far beyond people's imagination. Since it was introduced into China, Latin dance has developed rapidly and now now entered colleges and universities as a novel major. The focus of the education of Latin dance has gradually turned from popularization to cultivating specialized Latin dancer. Professional physical colleges and dance schools have also established art departments or dance departments one after another to ensure more students to obtain corresponding qualifications through theoretical and practical learning professionally and systematically, and pursue the artistic temperament and enthusiasm brought by dance. However, in the development process of modern Latin dance in China, there are some defects in universities' Latin dance courses. It is especially important to understand the importance of body posture in Latin dance. This paper introduces the requirements of five kinds of Latin dances on body posture. By using the methods of literature, induction and analysis, interview and investigation, combined with the characteristics of Latin dance, this paper explores and analyzes body posture in Latin dance and its important significance. Then the practice methods of body posture in Latin dance and its influence on Latin dance practice in the future are obtained.</p>

A Cross-Sectional Study on Visual Art Students’ Perceptions of the Assessment Experience in a Public Higher Education in Ghana

This study explores visual arts students’ perceptions of their assessment experience in a public university in Ghana which offers undergraduate degree programmes across the disciplines in Visual Art. A convenient sampling technique was used to pool 600 volunteered respondents out of a student’s population of 2,618 from the Faculty of Art, Kwame Nkrumah University Science & Technology, Kumasi. Data was collected during the second semester of 2015/2016 academic year using a face validated 20 item five-point Likert scale Students’ Assessment Experience Questionnaire with reliability estimate of .744. Data collected was analyzed using descriptive statistics and one-way MANOVA analysis. The findings of the study pointed to the significant difference between the various visual art departments in their satisfaction with the assessment delivery and experience. The results did not show significant gap between student`s perceptions of assessment experience across the disciplines (departmental) level. There was no significant difference between students in their total satisfaction with the assessment delivery and assessment experience. However there were significant difference along receiving of feedback and assessment of artworks. Based on the findings, it is recommended that innovative assessment practices should be encouraged across the disciplines to foster creativity and deepen life-long skills among the students.

Xu Beihong [徐悲鴻] (1895–1953)

Xu Beihong was a key figure in modern Chinese art who used his Western academic training to remake Chinese art in the 20th century. He began his career in Shanghai as an illustrator and commercial painter. After briefly studying in Japan, he took another opportunity to study in France in 1919 at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts under Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret (1852–1929). He was an avid defender of French academic style and an opponent of European modernism in the modernization of Chinese art; for this he was sometimes criticized for obstructing artistic progress in China. Returning to China, he served as the head of various university art departments and academies. As one of the first Chinese artists to achieve international fame, he met with many renowned cultural figures, including Rabindranath Tagore, in the interest of creating a unified Asian style of modernism. Addressing the social and political needs of modern Chinese art, his monumental works combined French academic composition and the aesthetics of Realism with traditional Chinese painting techniques and subjects. He is mostly known today for his later monochromatic paintings of horses, done with precisely controlled Chinese brushwork, yet at the same time able to convey a sense of expressive dynamic movement.

Woman Appeal. A New Rhetoric of Consumption: Women’s Domestic Magazines in the 1920s and 1930s

The launch of over fifty titles put women and their magazines at the forefront of popular publishing in the interwar years. The buoyant market opened new opportunities for women as writers, on the editorial side, in publicity, art departments, and related areas such as advertising, in order to better ‘appeal to women’ and articulate the ‘woman’s point of view’. Driven by commercial imperatives–women were considered to hold the purse strings of the nation–woman appeal, nevertheless, signalled a more nuanced understanding of female psychology and a gendered perspective on life. This chapter examines how it was constructed in the domestic monthly Modern Woman in the 1920s, and popular weeklies Woman’s Weekly and Woman in the 1930s. It argues that while simultaneously serving to reinforce accepted notions of womanhood, the complex relationship between editorial and advertising produced a hybrid environment in magazines that offered their widening readerships a space to imagine other versions of womanhood which, albeit quietly, challenged established class and gender norms.

HOWL for UWG

Howl for UWG, a public art fundraiser inspired by Cow Parade, used the University of West Georgia's wolf mascot to bridge art, academics, and athletics in addition to strengthening relations between the campus and the community. Many universities and colleges across the country have initiated similar projects, but non-artists and non-art areas, such as athletics, often lead these endeavors. The goal of this chapter is to demonstrate that for universities and colleges, art departments on campus can use their direct link to talent, resources, and skills to ensure the success of these popular projects. Howl for UWG serves as an example that art departments can utilize the Cow Parade framework for scholarship fundraising while elevating the artistic aspect of the project to a higher and more meaningful educational experience for all involved.