Aesthetic Expression Research Articles

Learning Subjective Knowledge with Designer-Like Thinking and Interactive Machine Teaching

Aesthetics is a crucial aspect of design that plays a critical role in the creation process and customers' perception of outcomes. However, aesthetic expressions are highly subjective and nuanced. It often relies on designers' experiences and many trials and errors to get it right. Our research first investigated how designers and artists curated aesthetic materials and utilized them in their daily practice. Based on the result, we applied Langley's human-like learning framework to develop an interactive Style Agent system. It aims to learn designers' aesthetic expertise and utilize AI's capability to empower practitioner's creativity. In this paper, we used typographic posters as examples and conducted a preliminary evaluation of our prototype. The results showed that our system provided a modular structure for effortlessly annotating users' subjective perceptions and making the visualizations easy to interpret through performance. Overall, it acts as a facilitator to help enhance their own aesthetic awareness and empowers them to expand their design space.

Public spaces, street art, and the challenges of feminist ecological citizenship in Chile

ABSTRACT While considerable literature examines the intersection between feminism and ecology, as well as the intersection between feminism and urbanism, few studies address the intersection between feminism and ecology by looking at aesthetic activism in the city. This essay explores the synergies and potential connections between the idea of body/territory and feminist ecological citizenship through the lens of aesthetic expressions in the streets during the 2019 ‘Estallido Social’, a social uprising in Santiago (Chile). I suggest to read three street art/performance vignettes as aesthetic acts of disobedient citizenship. In so doing, the vignettes illustrate the main conceptual proposition of the paper, that is, to demonstrate how the notion of body/territory operates in three different levels – the body, the state, the planet(ary) – and serves to unsettle essentialist forms of care associated to gendered bodies, gendered public spaces, and the gendered nature of ecological struggles faced in and beyond the city. Ultimately, this exercise aims at exploring the potential of the ecofeminist notion of body/territory to stretch the limits of national and ecological citizenship to encompass care.

Artistic and Aesthetic Features in Modern Short Stories

This paper delves into the artistic-aesthetic dimensions present in three contemporary narratives: "My Father's Hands" by Sardar Amin, "The Bitten apple" by Atagam, and "The Silence of the Bees" by Sharif Agh. It elucidates how these stories embody the artistic-aesthetic ideal while underscoring the intrinsic connection between aesthetic expression and the socio-political milieu. Furthermore, it posits that the author's portrayal of reality inherently reflects ethical-aesthetic intentions. Sardar Amin's narrative places the moral-aesthetic quandary at the forefront, emanating from the national-moral framework characteristic of an oriental writer. Sharif Agh elucidates rape as a manifestation of wartime aggression, categorizing it as an archetype of aesthetic repugnance. This portrayal suggests that warfare itself embodies elements akin to rape. Atagam presents a distinct artistic and aesthetic narrative, delineating contrasting worldviews within the story. The author's withdrawal from the characters, adoption of a language reflective of the story's environment, and adherence to existing aesthetics augment the narrative's allure.

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Fashion Recommendation System and Virtual Trial Room

The fashion industry has recently witnessed massive growth in the clothing and textile industries. In e-commerce marketplaces, where there are many options accessible, relevant product material or information can be filtered, arranged, and efficiently communicated to users. As the standard of living increased, people's attention began to shift towards fashion, which is considered to be a common form of aesthetic expression. The development of the fashion business over time has been influenced by this human tendency. The abundance of clothing alternatives on e-commerce sites, however, has made it more difficult for customers to select the ideal outfit. In this article, we describe a personalised fashion recommender system that generates suggestions for the user based on input. In order to enhance the consumer shopping experience, we developed a software application that combines a recommender system with the OpenCV and TensorFlow technologies. This will enable customers to virtually try on clothing without having to wait in a large queue. The application uses OpenCV to map the clothes onto the customer’s body, the customer can then have a look at it and decide whether to buy the clothes or not. According to the results, there is no need to visit trial rooms because the mapping is done precisely onto the user's body. Thus, our app offers a quick, simple, and accurate method of trying on clothing, and we think that will help shape the retail sector.

The Influence of CG Technology on The Aesthetics of Chinese Magic Films Take The Candle in The Tomb Film Series for Example

This study aims to investigate the impact of computer-generated imagery (CG) on the aesthetic context and innovation of oriental gods and creatures in Chinese magical film footage. This study focuses on the analysis and research of CG technology in Chinese magical film lens images, as well as the aesthetic habits and aesthetic psychology of contemporary audiences towards oriental gods and creatures. This research employs a qualitative research approach because it is appropriate for examining the cultural background and aesthetic habits of Chinese magical film lens images created using CG technology, as well as the aesthetic emotions that the film evokes in its audience. This study specifically examines the aesthetic expression and breakthrough innovation of oriental gods and monsters in the CG screen effects of the film series Candle In The Tomb, as well as the operation process of Chinese magical film CG technology and its expression based on and the generative context and breakthrough innovation of oriental gods' aesthetic style. This study will provide a theory of the CG technology used to guide the visual aesthetics of Chinese fantasy films. It will benefit creators of Chinese magic films, researchers, academicians, students, and those interested in the subject's study and preservation.

Between Vision and Possibility – Industrial Architecture From the Socialist Period in Sarajevo

<p class="Abstract" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="sr-Cyrl-BA">As a contribution to the research on the specificities of Yugoslav modernism, the development of industrial architecture in the City of Sarajevo after World War II is presented. When defining the architectural typology of industrial buildings during this period of development, examples of conceptual designs whose implementation was either fully or partially absent were analyzed. </span><span style="background-color: var(--bs-body-bg); font-weight: var(--bs-body-font-weight); text-align: var(--bs-body-text-align);">The paper elaborates on the specific socio-economic and cultural context that determines the architectural production of the post-war period. Financial difficulties led to significant rationalization of construction that resulted in devoid of aesthetic expression. Nonetheless, conceptual designs from the archive of the People's Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina's Ministry of Construction (</span><i>Ministarstvo građevina NRBiH</i><span style="background-color: var(--bs-body-bg); font-weight: var(--bs-body-font-weight); text-align: var(--bs-body-text-align);">) show careful consideration of the technological process in conjunction with contemporary constructive possibilities and aesthetics of the functionalist design of modernism. </span><span lang="sr-Cyrl-BA">The detailed presentation of the ambitious design of the Bosna Film "film city" in Jagomir provides a vivid insight into the undisputed development of architectural thought in this area.</span></p>

Revisiting the Realism/Modernism Debate: Marxist Thought and the Ethics of Representation

In Utopian Generations: The Political Horizon of Twentieth-Century Literature (2005), Nicholas Brown remarks on the difference between realism and modernism as one that expresses a conflict between “a responsibility to historical truth” and “a fidelity to the formal energies released by the emergence of a form of subjectivity liberated (or alienated) from historical consciousness” (182). This raises several issues that might be useful for us to develop since, despite the emergence of diverse critical lines of thought since the development of postwar critical theory, realism and modernism have continued to affect the intricately interconnected modes of philosophical and political attitudes towards the relation between aesthetics and politics. Marxist thinkers, Georg Lukács, Theodor Adorno, and Fredric Jameson, among others, explored the dichotomy of realism and modernism in terms of the dialectic of form and content. While they shared that there is an essentially inextricable relationship between literature and the underlying contradictions of our society, how they described the aesthetic expression of social contradictions was distinct, leaving the important question unanswered: “what does it mean to be ‘real’?” In this paper, I revisit the realism-modernism debate to explore this fundamental antagonism to see how these thinkers help clarify the following issues: what is realist form, and what are its features? How does realism negotiate the history of aesthetic forms? Are “formal energies,” as Brown puts it, by themselves an attempt to be free of “historical consciousness” or ones that, as form, highlight historical consciousness? And finally, how does realist form make political action possible? These questions also help us see what it means that the aesthetic choices of an older realism have been persistently replicated after modernism in the global periphery.

Toward Fashion Intelligence in the Big Data Era: State-of-the-Art and Future Prospects

Fashion, as a popular aesthetic expression, is often conveyed in a specific context, in particular in clothing, footwear, and accessories. Attributed to its enormous economic potential, intelligent fashion analysis has attracted focused attention from both academia and industrial practitioners in recent years. In this research, we provide a comprehensive review of fashion analysis-related tasks, which include fashion detection, fashion parsing, fashion retrieval, fashion style learning, fashion compatibility learning, fashion attribute prediction, and fashion generation. We investigated state-of-the-art articles from 1990 to the present, and provided a new taxonomy of extant research topics over these articles. We then summarized most representative fashion datasets with detailed statistical information. The coupled topics, methods, and features with respect to different levels of fashion analysis are also highlighted. Finally, remaining challenges and open issues are discussed in order to provide guidance for future studies.

Aesthetic Expression as a Means to Nurture "Self" in a Basic Nursing Care Practicum.

Nursing students develop their professional "self" through clinical placement experiences. Aesthetic expression can be used as a means to reflect students' personal knowing and to convey self as nurtured during their clinical journey. In a postconference session of the Basic Nursing Care Practicum course, six students were asked to draw pictures reflecting their clinical experience and then share their stories. It appeared that nursing students learned the meaning of nursing and caring, and through these meanings, their actual self as nurses was also developed.

Application of Information Integration Technology to Help Minority Traditional Arts in Chinese Painting Art Designs

Abstract This study utilizes the application of information fusion technology in the artistic design of Chinese paintings, especially exploring how to incorporate the elements of traditional ethnic minority art to enrich and develop the spatial aesthetic expression of Chinese paintings. The study first analyzes the differences in spatial artistic expression between Chinese and Western painting. It focuses on the spatial expression methods of Chinese painting and their application in ethnic minority traditional art. The mathematical model of minority art plane is constructed through the method of coordinate space and its transformation. The PAD emotional attribute model is used to quantitatively analyze the dynamic characteristics of Chinese painting art design works. The results show that the traditional elements of ethnic minorities incorporated in Chinese painting art design can effectively enrich the emotional expression of the paintings and enhance the aesthetic value of the art works. In 2022, the content of traditional elements of ethnic minorities in Chinese paintings increased by about 20 times compared with that in 2015, showing the increasing popularity of this art form. This study reveals the potential application value of information fusion technology in traditional art design and provides a new development direction for Chinese painting art design.

The humanistic spirit and aesthetic expression of contemporary industrial-themed paintings in Northeast China

The humanistic spirit and aesthetic expression of contemporary industrial-themed paintings in Northeast China

Cross-border Integration and Contemporary Aesthetic Expression of Jun Porcelain Design

Cross-border Integration and Contemporary Aesthetic Expression of Jun Porcelain Design

Green Heat and Wind Factors in Sustainable Urban Development of Mountain-Basin Relief

The article studies mountain basin relief’s influence on the heat and wind regime organization when developing it for sustainable urban planning purposes. Each time a unique relief is identified, it requires an individual design approach taking into account the identification of the aesthetic expressiveness of green settlement development. Depending on the slope, there may be different options for using the site. The article presents the features of the geometry of the mountain-basin space associated with the relative depth of the mountain basin. The thermal field of the mountain-basin space, which is formed due to the energy of incoming solar radiation and the internal heat of insolated urban development, is analyzed. The city’s mountain-basin terrain requires an individual design approach, taking into account the identification of the aesthetic expressiveness of green settlement development. Based on the generalization and analysis of studies of air flows’ structure, their direction, velocity, and temperature fields, as well as the characteristics of the microclimate in the development of the mountain-basin space, an aerodynamic picture of air movement arising under the influence of natural thermal forces was obtained. The thermal field of the mountain-basin space has been established, which is formed due to the energy of incoming solar radiation and the internal heat of insolated urban development. The proposed methodology for calculating the heat and wind conditions of development is the basis for preliminary forecasting, assessment, and regulation of heat and wind parameters, as well as optimization of the sustainable development planning of mountain-basin relief.

The use of precast concrete façade elements in selected projects of new Polish public buildings. Formal meanings and technology

The article is a presentation of selected examples of Polish public architecture as an attempt to search for contemporary architectural meanings and their expression in prefabrication concrete technologies. Prefabrication – increasingly visible in the Polish scenery – is not only becoming a construction alternative to monolithic systems, but is also chosen by architects as the ideal technology to implement their aesthetic intentions. An additional goal of the work is to analyse available sources on the topic of prefabrication of concrete façade solutions, in terms of their impact on the aesthetic expression of architectural objects, and to present the selected type of prefabrication through technical and construction details. Contemporary concrete architecture is increasingly subject to prefabrication due to higher technical and quality requirements. The cited patterns of application of modular façade solutions prove that they do not have to limit the architect’s design freedom and can be an alternative to leaving the beaten tracks of monolithic concrete construction.

시각디자인 전공 대학생의 자아존중감이 전공만족도에 미치는 영향

In contemporary society, visual design surpasses mere aesthetic expression, establishing itself as a crucial field for message delivery and communication through a variety of media. University students majoring in visual design are increasingly recognized for acquiring a range of professional skills, including creativity and technical expertise. During this process, self-esteem and satisfaction with their major emerge as significant factors. However, there is limited research on how the self-esteem of students majoring in visual design impacts their satisfaction with their major. In this study, 251 copies were used as final analysis data by composing a questionnaire based on previous studies, and these data were analyzed using the PASW Statistics 18.0 program. The results of the study, This study’s findings reveal that the sub-components of self-esteem, namely the social, familial, and academic selves, predominantly exert a statistically significant positive influence on major satisfaction. These results highlight the substantial effect of self-esteem on the satisfaction levels of students in visual design majors. This study anticipates stimulating more discussions on the relationship between self-esteem and major satisfaction among students in this field.

Audience-oriented Aesthetic and Creative Research on Animated Films Based on Visual Communication Design

Abstract Animation movie conveys the connotation of animation to the audience through visual symbols, and the audience-oriented animation movie improves the aesthetic ability and diversifies the creative design. This paper starts with the analysis of visual communication design technology in animated films, analyzes the principle of visual communication design of animated images, and realizes the production of animated films by using multi-visual 3D animation modeling and texture rendering technology. The Sobel edge operator is introduced to optimize the image edge data of animated movies, so as to improve the image quality of animated movies. The development trend of visual communication design is discussed, and the aesthetic characteristics of visual communication design for animated films and the mutual influence between them are analyzed. In order to explore the aesthetic expression and creative design methods of animated films, quantitative analysis of data was conducted using current animated film works. The results show that the bit code rate in the full intra-frame coding mode of optimized production of animated images using visual communication technology is −1.87%, the highest quality factor is around 0.95, and the variation of smoothness is kept between 80% and 90%. Audience-oriented visual communication design of animated films should be based on the utility of information conveyance and rhythmic rhyme design and prompt the creative design of animated films through association, whimsy, metaphor, style and other ways.

The Beauty of New Urban Functions

The paper aims to answer the question of how the aesthetic value of functions that appear as a novelty in contemporary urban space is given on the example of buildings intended for urban agriculture. Due to the fact that most of them are created as part of multi-functional facilities and constitute an extension of the existing infrastructure, the way they are shaped and the final aesthetic expression is the result of technical needs and capabilities. Natural beauty in the city has been, often by contrast, associated with the emergence of greenery, which is built spontaneously, creating principles that inspire the discovery of a perfect geometry, a harmony within each urban scale. Hence the potential for a new function, which, although its subject is nature, is nevertheless enclosed by architectural form by design. The last decade has brought the first realizations of agriculture integrated into the urban fabric and treated as an urban function, so it has not yet managed to develop its own clearly defined aesthetic. However, the influence of several basic functions from which urban agriculture originates is clearly visible in this respect, i.e. intensive agriculture, industry, housing and recreation. These aesthetics are often in contradiction, but they already give the opportunity to pick out certain directions that are supposed to ensure a harmonious combination of seemingly contradictory elements. The use of the symbolism of a place, the existing characteristic elements that bear witness to local traditions, which are transformed for the new function, and their inscription, either by contrast or continuation in the existing urban context are often used tools. This analysis is based on examples of completed complexes and buildings for which it is possible to objectively assess the premises causing a sense of harmony or disharmony on various levels of reading space – physical, symbolic or historical. The discussed examples include housing developments, industrial and logistics functions, office and exhibition space.

Tadao Ando’s Application of Fair-Faced Concrete Building Materials

In the world of architecture, fair-faced concrete has evolved from a utilitarian building material to a symbol of design innovation and aesthetic excellence. Tadao Ando, a renowned architect, has played a pivotal role in showcasing the possibilities and beauty of fair-faced concrete in his architectural works. The use and appreciation of fair-faced concrete by Tadao Ando have permanently altered the architectural environment. As a result of his imaginative use of the material, a new generation of architects and designers are today exploring the boundless potential of fair-faced concrete to create environments that are not only functional but also visually beautiful and profoundly connected to their surroundings. Ando's imaginative work has revolutionized modern architecture and raised the status of fair-faced concrete as a medium for aesthetic expression.

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The article considers the project of development of the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation and the Arctic Ocean coast, the creation of servicing and supporting infrastructure of the Northern Sea Route. The authors present data from a pre-project study of the territory and show the need for its logistical enrichment in order to increase the efficiency of mineral extraction and multiply the volume of transported cargo. To realise these ideas, the authors propose new types of Arctic bases and settlements based on the geometry of geodesic domes, which have a number of technical advantages and aesthetic expression. The authors propose to base the settlement concept on the principles of modularity, interchangeability of individual modules and their component parts, maximum weight reduction and simplified transport. We propose to install wind energy-ecological and a number of other engineering systems to increase the autonomy of Arctic settlements.