Aesthetic Expression Research Articles

Aesthetic Features of Chinese Freehand Painting from the Perspective of Art History

Chinese freehand painting still has distinctive aesthetic characteristics even today when culture and art coexist and cognition. Understanding the aesthetic expression of Chinese freehand painting from the perspective of art history is conducive to a deeper understanding of freehand painting, thus providing guidance for contemporary art creation and innovation.

The Expression of Values, Humanity and Aesthetics: The Appearance of Chinese Films in the New Stage

Abstract Since the turn of the 21st century, the creative focus of Chinese films has developed from “main theme films” to “new mainstream films”; this change has led to the transformation of Chinese films as the world’s second largest market, enabling the diversification of artistic creative types and the expression of spiritual connotations. Since 2012, new mainstream films in China have increasingly occupied the leading position in film creation, with many outstanding works being produced. The adherence to China’s mainstream values, as well as the multi-tiered and diverse types of creation, make Chinese films in this new stage an important representative of Chinese culture. The progress of new mainstream films may be seen in relation to the following aspects: cultural values, the expression of humanity, family ethics, and aesthetic expression, all of which are constantly advancing the development of Chinese films.

Performativity and Aesthetic Experience of the City. From the body of the flâneur to the soma of the Man in Gold.


 
 
 In this essay, I do not want to focus on performativity as such and understand it as an aesthetic expression; instead, I would like to illustrate how performativity takes on the role consequential to an aesthetic experience. Specifically, I want to highlight how aesthetic experience takes place in the spatial contexts of the city. In this regard, I want to define the aesthetic-practical-sensory relationship of the soma, understood as a paradigm of a living body, that is, a body that moves and acts in space, by declining three historical moments that tell the story. I want to define three historical moments from the early twentieth century to the present through the soma-city relationship: 1) The first moment is inscribed in the emergence of the Baudelairian concept of the flâneur, a symbolic figure who introduces a relationship with the city characterized by a disenchanted gaze and a slow, wandering movement picked up, especially by Walter Benjamin in the Paris Passages; 2) The second moment is that of Situationism, in which Guy Debord introduces the concept of dérive, understood as an approach to the city marked by the experiential and emotional relationship; 3) The third and most recent moment concerns Richard Shusterman's embodiment of the somaesthetic exercise, in which the Avatar of the Man in Gold, enters into a relationship with the city, aspiring to reconnect urban spheres and not to a pure somaesthetic experience of the city. The last point to be made is that these three historical and aesthetic experience-based moments of the body in the city are marked by the body moving in space. In the case of the flâneur, the body wanders in an unresolved manner without a precise destination; in the case of the drift, the body is propelled by the many sensations and expressions of the city that are expressed through walking (urban Walkscapes); finally, in the case of the Man in Gold, there is a movement totally absorbed in the experience of places.
 
 

The Use of Growl Vocal Technique to Enhance Voice Quality in Singing Pop Songs

This study aims to provide solutions for students of Music Education Study Program of Indonesia Institute of the Arts Yogyakarta who face problems in singing pop songs, particularly to reach high notes. Growl is a kind of vocal technique for producing growling sounds. Initially, Growl vocal technique was used by metal or rock vocalists. However, this technique can be applied to pop songs as a variation. As a result, it can be functioned as a solution to reach high notes for the singers having low range of notes. This study focused on the process of practicing Growl vocal technique and the use of Growl when singing pop songs. The author implemented qualitative method emphasizing on cas study approach. The data collection was carried out through literature studies, observations, and interviews by selecting sample from the respondents engaging in this study case in which the subjects of the study were Pop Jazz vocal students in Music Education Study Program of Indonesia Institute of the Arts Yogyakarta. The application of Growl Vocal Technique is highly efficacious when singing both low and high notes in legato manner. In addition, Growl can be an emphasis on the specific lines of song lyrics to convey the enotional meaning of that part. Furthermore, it also can be functioned as an alteration to create divergence of a singer in using vocal techniques when singing. It leads to a novelty that the use of Growl vocal technique can be said to be an aesthetic expression to make voice much more amusing.

Aesthetic Wit(h)nessing in Anti-lynching Songs by Silvestre Revueltas and Carlos Chávez

Abstract Mexican composers Silvestre Revueltas and Carlos Chávez each wrote one song that execrates the lynching-murder of Black persons in the United States. In them, the composers pit a Mexican aesthetics of death against violent spectacle and social inequities to assert a universal dignity of life and to situate an antiracist position within the context of a broader international class struggle. In the process of airing fresh interpretations of the songs, I imply that the composers’ divergent experiences in the United States—Chávez’s relative proximity to establishment structures of power and Revueltas’s intimacy with working-class struggle and race-based discrimination—informed their translation of Black suffering into the (differently historically colonized) context of Mexico. Both composers effected an artful indirection: a displaced deictic center from which to mediate their social thought concerning Mexico’s own problems of penal excess and extrajudicial lynching. Bracha Ettinger’s aesthetically activated Matrixial dimension sets a theoretical and analytical stage for an exploration of these anti-lynching songs and offers a way of understanding aesthetic expressions of allyship in a transhistorical mode.

The Artistic Form and Language Characteristics of Bai Yuping’s Painting Texture

As a representative of the ‘Northern School’ of Chinese landscape painting, Bai Yuping is adept at using extremely thick and thin texture to record the great rivers and mountains of his country, ultimately creating a strong contrast in the picture, creating a special visual sensation for the viewer and creating an emotional resonance between himself and the viewer. Due to Bai Yuping’s special organisation and use of the language of texture gives his landscapes a special charm. On the one hand, this charm is due to the episodic effect of the writing brushstrokes, which to a certain extent breaks down some of the compositional elements of the original picture and expresses his personal emotions; on the other hand, Bai Yuping uses a combination of paint and brushstrokes to express the texture. These two aspects are important features of his language of texture, and the use of texture in his paintings gives his work a certain aesthetic expression of imagery, which has an important influence on his unique artistic language and individual expression. Through the analysis and study of the use of texture language by Mr. Bai Yuping, one can give new blood to one’s landscape oil paintings, inject new ideas into one’s works, and gain certain insights from them, so that one can better apply them to one’s own landscape oil paintings.

The Evolution, Characteristics, and Aesthetic Expression of Han Dynasty Sculptures: Exploring the Artistic Achievements of Ancient China

This study explores the development, traits, methods, and philosophies of Han sculptural works throughout Chinese history. Han dynasty sculptures are exceptional works of art due to their unusual ceramic figurines, stone creature sculptures, and pictorial stone designs. The article explores the evolution of art across time, centering on the Han dynasty and its emphasis on functional sculptures. Cultural influences such as the mixing of Chu and Western Region art via the Silk Road are discussed how they influenced Han Dynasty sculptures. The study also explores the stories told via the sculptures of the Han era, focusing on themes of life, myth, and masculinity. With an emphasis on stone carving and a wide range of expressive methods, this article examines the creative expressions and aesthetic principles at work in sculptures from the Han Dynasty. The relevance of sculptures from the Han Dynasty to the evolution of ancient Chinese art is discussed, with examples highlighting the sculptures' dynamic life and creative quality.

Aesthetics exploration of chiaroscuro light: capturing the visual atmosphere of traditional markets in Jakarta

Photography is needed as a medium of expression and delivery of communication messages. In the field of art, Chiaroscuro is a new vehicle for expression to be translated as a visual object in creating street photography. The main focus that is interesting to know is about the aesthetics of chiaroscuro light in the art of photography. The purpose of this research is to describe how to visualize the aesthetic expressions of researchers about traditional markets in the area of Jakarta. The research method employs an artistic approach within the context of visual field research, emphasizing creativity, subjective perspectives, and interpretations. The analysis techniques center on formal aspects of visual elements, including composition, color, shape, line, and texture, with the goal of understanding how these elements contribute to the overall aesthetic and communicative qualities of the image. Photographic exposure and description are supported by subjective observations. The results of the study show that photography is able to provide aesthetic expression according to the wishes of the researcher. The research contributes to the field by exploring the use of chiaroscuro as a novel expressive tool in street photography, particularly in the context of traditional markets in Jakarta. It demonstrates how an artistic approach and formal visual analysis techniques can effectively capture and convey the aesthetic qualities of these markets, ultimately resulting in a tangible outcome in the form of a photo book, enriching our understanding of urban culture and visual communication.

Aesthetic Expressions of Caring in Nursing Among Thai Undergraduate Nursing Students

Caring is a core value of nursing and is often incorporated in nursing curricula. A qualitative research study was conducted based on Gadamer’s philosophical viewpoints to collect, analyze, and interpret aesthetic expressions of caring in nursing by Thai undergraduate students of nursing. Participants were 41 second-year baccalaureate degree nursing students from a university in Thailand. Data generated were graphic illustrations and short descriptions and narrative statements, which were analyzed and interpreted using thematic analysis. Trustworthiness was established following Lincoln and Guba’s criteria. Meanings of caring in nursing revealed five thematic categories: (a) nurturing wholeness of persons, (b) practicing aesthetic caring in nursing, (c) sharing self with honesty and trust, (d) helping persons using multiple processes, and (e) enhancing personhood. This study described caring in nursing as focused on persons, human relationships, and nursing processes of caring that enhance personhood. These findings inform professional nursing education toward a transformative caring process for students of nursing who are imbued with caring attributes.

Boy Cuts: Female Masculinity and Queer Aesthetics in Karachi, Pakistan

ABSTRACT In Pakistan, compared with the long-established category of khwaja sira, which can be analogous to trans femininity in English, little attention has yet been paid to trans and female masculinities. For trans men, butch women, and nonbinary people assigned female at birth (AFAB), their navigation of public spaces, negotiation of identity and aesthetic expression of gender, and balancing of globalizing LGBTQ+ discourses with pre-existing South Asian forms of queerness has meant that they see their struggles as unique from other types of queer identification and community in Pakistan. This article examines how masculine-presenting AFAB queer and trans young adults in Karachi express themselves through embodied aesthetic forms, such as hair styles and clothing, and negotiate these aesthetic choices with family and community insistences on presenting as proper women. While providing an optic into understanding the complexities of choice and agency that AFAB individuals face in displaying their masculinity, aesthetics is often also a determining factor in how they are treated and seen by others in the various kinds of public spaces that they move between. Their aesthetic choices not only help to better understand marginalized masculinities in Pakistan, but also challenge and disrupt an idealized feminine aesthetic in Pakistan that is related to marriageability and conformity

Ch'ixi Epistemology and The Potosí Principle in the 21st Century

Abstract The author focuses on the project exhibition, “The Potosí Principle,” curated by Alice Creischer, Max Hinderer, and Andreas Siekmann Initially installed in Madrid in 2010 and then traveling to Berlin and La Paz, the show cut across the institutionally defined and often rigorously guarded boundaries between curatorial practice, aesthetic expression, and scholarly research to explore global capitalism's dynamics from the perspective of the Spanish colonial empire and its distinctive imagery. However, despite the exhibition's creative installation techniques and revisionist history, it generated a considerable scandal when a self-organized group of La Paz-based artists and scholars committed to anticolonial practices accused the curators of continuing the logic through which the modern West has represented others. The author argues that this criticism parallels the often-fraught negotiations between artists, curators, and curated cultures at the boundary zones between art frameworks.

Can a Kathakali (‘story-play’) hold a performance reading?

The reformulation of the world heritage, on the one hand, and the discontinuity of contemporary art on the other congregate at the agency of the performing subject. Yet, the partitioning of synchronicity and diachronicity concur at new cultural sites and conjunctions of ethos to allow discursive stylization, giving ample scope for studying acts of performance in contact. In this perspective, the Kathakali Nāṭyōtpatti (‘birth of theatre’), a new production recently presented at the Kalamandalam Kūttampalam traditional theatre of Kerala, makes performance strategies visible enough to gain insight into the super roles densely packed into the work of art. The article seeks the story maker in the position of the story teller, especially in this presentation on the origins of dance where a young generation of theatre artists are underway to find more or less new paths in understanding what they perform. Judging from the small attendance, a mix of teachers, dance students and members of the local audience who gathered at the opening night of a puttiyakatha (‘new Kathakali story’), some scratching their heads, others peeping into their notes on the play in search of points of reference in the story, a sense of unfamiliarity pervaded the atmosphere at the presentation of Nāṭyōtpatti (‘The Birth of a Theatre/Dance/Music’) in Kerala. To the native audience, a Kathakali performance bearing upon the Nāṭyaśāstra, the Indian holy book on theatre, dance, music and the theatre arts, could be as exotic as a Kathakali Shakespeare. Kathakali has long been associated with the epics and the Pūraṇas. Dealing with the birth of dance through the medium of dance might appear auto-referential. But that gave the theatrical event an overlay to its aesthetic expression. And yet turning to the śāstra to go back to the origins of theatre and dance, the Kathakali dance theatre exposes itself as a mode of representation, and warrants a reflection on its formative years and the ongoing process of transformation involved in its narrative and dramatic devices.

A Case Study on Formative Elements and Visual Perception Theory Expressed in Virtual Art Contents

With the development of media, the form of expression has rapidly grown into the field of virtual art. The trend of development and generalization of virtual space art through virtual space and virtual reality is forming interest in virtual art using computer graphics, such as information and material, space and time, reality and virtuality, and active participation. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the image contents expressed in virtual art based on the Gestalt theory of form, and to study the aesthetic characteristics of the formative elements and principles of visual perception expressed in virtual art contents. As a result, the aesthetic expression of formative elements and principles of visual perception can feel illusion or virtual expression. In addition, it was confirmed that virtual art was applied with free spatiality that is not limited by space. It was found that the Gestalt theory could play a role in identifying and understanding the meaning expressed in virtual art.

Aesthetic expression an das Clavier: performing character in the keyboard music of C. P. E. Bach

Abstract The expression and interpretation of music in the North German Enlightenment was a primary concern of amateur musicians. Around the mid 18th century, influenced by the nascent discipline of aesthetics, literature on the arts and music exhibited a shift towards a psychological approach to expression rather than a rhetorical one. This article examines the notion of ‘character’ as used in aesthetics, music theory and compositions of the period, showing how it was closely linked to the moral function of art. Moving away from a rhetorical or semiotic approach that identifies a fixed character in specific genres or musical features, I argue that musical performance involved an interaction between the music’s implied character and the moral character of the musician. Case studies of two representative keyboard works by C. P. E. Bach, the Rondo I in C major (Wq.56.1/h.260) and the Fantasia in F♯ minor (Wq.67/h.300), explore ways to recover the psychological experience of character as delineated in these compositions, and discuss how an approach to expressing character could be employed by present-day performers.

MODERN INTERIOR ART OBJECTS: CLASSIFICATION AND CREATION FEATURES

In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in art-design that is a combination of art and design where the conceptual component prevails over the utilitarian value of the object. The works of art-design reflect the author’s artistic concepts and combine aesthetic expressiveness, artistic design and a certain functional load. The objectives of this study are to make a classification of modern interior art-objects and to determine the role of modern industrial equipment in the process of creating designated creative works. The methodology of this work based on the application of empirical and theoretical research methods. The empirical methods, namely experiment, comparison and observation, when studying the characteristics of the manufacture of these creative compositions, are fundamental. To summarize the practical experience and update the curriculum applied theoretical research methods, namely analysis, synthesis and forecasting. The results of the research support the idea that art-objects can be classified: by composition (frontal, three-dimensional, deep-spatial); in terms of components (modular, similar, heterogeneous); in artistic and figurative direction (abstract, associative, naturalistic); by nature of interaction with humans (interactive and static); by materials (wooden, polymeric, metal, glass, mirror, with fabric or combination of several materials in one work); by function (creation of compositional accents or compositional dominant in the interior, identification of separate zones in space, creation of a special artistic-imaginary system in the interior). The analysis of numerical examples of the introduction of art objects in the general design of the object-space environment revealed the criteria that influence the perception of the identified compositions by man: the figurative and stylistic conformity of the art-object to the overall interior design. In this aspect becomes important the question of forming a coherent harmonious space; the compositional arrangement of art-objects in a object-space environment, which depends on the author’s concept, architectural planning and spatial-spatial features of the interior. It was revealed that the creation of art-objects is based not only on the knowledge of the composition, but also on the understanding of the features of modern industrial equipment, which is used in the creation of these objects. To make the interior art-object it is necessary to follow certain stages of the work, namely: analysis of the works of predecessors, formulation of the concept, sketching and the production of the object. To produce elements of an art-object it is necessary to create a computer model of that object; to write a control programs for CNC machine tools production of the details of an art-object in the material; to decorate the surfaces of elements. The present results are significant that the use of innovative technical means requires the ability to work in special graphic computer programs and to understand the physical, artistic and aesthetic properties of materials. The use of CNC machines improves the quality of the compositions and opens new horizons in the field of implementation of the most daring creative concepts and the use of different materials. We conclude that the use of industrial equipment in the process of art-objects creation contradicts the concept of manual production of a work of art-design, but the machine is just a tool in the hands of the artist, whose use doesn’t offset knowledge of composition, understanding of combinatorics. Without professional training and original artistic design, no industrial equipment is able to produce a unique art object.

Informal service economy: a research study of attitudes, motivations and practices among informal entrepreneurs

Purpose This study aims to explore how the attitudes, motivations and practices of informal entrepreneurs, who choose service exclusion, prevent them from recognizing and taking advantage of transformative opportunities and embracing change. Design/methodology/approach The authors conducted a two-year study to explore five types of informal entrepreneurs (musicians, street vendors, artists, owners of informal smoke shops and street food vendors). The authors used semi-structured interviews and applied thematic analysis (ATA) of popular music and narratives to shed light on their attitudes, motivations and practices. Findings The study shows how potential service participants freely exclude themselves from services and transformative service initiatives, preventing them from realizing opportunities and embracing change that can improve their well-being. The study also demonstrates that to serve human needs fairly, service designers need to recognize that some actors require more attention and resources than others to achieve their potential. Originality/value The study challenges the notion that any population experiencing vulnerability wants help and chooses to participate in transformative service initiatives. Service participants can, in fact, exclude themselves from services and transformative service initiatives by free will, demonstrating that service exclusion is a multidirectional phenomenon, not unidirectional. Additionally, the paper analyzes narratives gathered from aesthetic expressions, using principles of ATA, introducing music thematic analysis as a research approach.

The “rebirth” of traditional musical instrument: An interactive installation based on augmented reality and somatosensory technology to empower the exhibition of chimes

AbstractTangible cultural heritage is rich in historical, artistic and scientific value, but due to its own characteristics and the constraints of museum displays, the key issue facing us today is how to utilize and activate cultural heritage to enhance the experience and learning interest of the audience. Focusing on the Chinese cultural treasure, the chimes, this article innovatively proposes an interaction system based on digital augmented projection and somatosensory technology to empower the aesthetic expression and knowledge dissemination of chimes. On this basis, a series of evaluations were carried out and the results showed that the system effectively provides a satisfying, personalized and fun way for users to interact with chimes and learn the traditional culture, successfully bringing this ancient instrument back to life. Moreover, this article shares in detail the research, design and development process, which provides inspiration and examples for other museums to present their tangible cultural heritage through mixed reality and interactive technology.

ОСОБЛИВОСТІ ЕСТЕТИЧНО-ЦІННІСНОГО СПРИЙНЯТТЯ СУЧАСНОГО СПОРТИВНОГО БАЛЬНОГО ТАНЦЮ

In modern culture sports and art are among the main spheres of human life. Traditionally sports and art are presented as mutually exclusive sociocultural phenomena. In recent decades the situation has changed: the transformation of sports into a global phenomenon requires a scientific study of mutual influence of sports and politics, sports and economics, sports and international cooperation. Within the framework of this study, the question of relations between sports and art seems to be relevant. The article makes an attempt not only to consider the problem of interaction of two cultural phenomena: sport and art, but through the analysis of sports ballroom dance to raise the question of the existence of a certain «set» of visual and expressive means that allow considering dance sport not only as a sport, but also as an artistic one, a work of art with a certain aesthetic value and expressiveness. It is concluded, that dance sport, perhaps, more then any other technical and aesthetic sport is closed to art. Aesthetic expressiveness is inherent in all sports, but it manifests itself and functions in different ways. As for dance sport, the authors are convinced that the synthesis of sport and art in this sport has taken place. The development of dance sport will take place not by increasing the physical capabilities the level of technical skill, but by increasing the expressive capabilities of human corporeality, where is no limit. The multifaceted world, which passes through the prism of human perception and imagination, is transformed into the content of the dance image and is its choreographic reflection. Sports ballroom dance is a modern work of art, manifested through the dancer's mastery of his own body and the ability to convey all the accumulated experience to captivate the viewer and draw him into the world of beauty.

On the Restoration of the Northern Stalls of the Ostankino Estate Amusement Park

The authors discusses the issues that arose when making adjustments to the project documentation with the performance of the function of a technical customer for carrying out repair and restoration work with an adaptation for modern use of windows of federal significance "Ostankino Manor, the end of the XVIII century". The possible ways of solving the problems of creating an image of the garden of its heyday - the end of the XVIII century - the first quarter of the XIX century are presented and analyzed. The arguments justifying design decisions when choosing planting material are demonstrated. The authors focus their attention on this aspect, as one of the numerous markers of the representation of local historical phenomena - in this case, the development of a certain park object. The scientific novelty of the work is connected with the identification of all factors and combinations of planning elements of the estate, which determined the achievement of that aesthetic expressiveness, which determines the status of the object as a cultural heritage and national treasure. We believe that when carrying out new restoration work, it is necessary to raise the question of restoring "flower beds" in historical outlines. In modern conditions, when the scale of the Ostankino park has changed, its functional purpose has changed, it would be wrong to suggest restoring "flowerbeds", while using tree and shrub vegetation. Six "klomps" are formed in accordance with and on the basis of these iconographic materials. The proposed floral assortment is similar to the solutions of the front yard – herbaceous peony (Latin Paeónia), hosta (Latin Hósta), lily (Latin Lílium) and spring flowering ephemeroids.

탈진실 시대, 진실전달 방식

This thesis presupposes that a literary approach is needed for truth discourse in the era of post-truth. In spite of fake news and distortion, we looked at the methods of conveying the truth of Beyond Death and Beyond the Darkness of Age, a novel form of Spring Day, and A Boy Is Coming, a non-fiction dealing with the May 18th, which received fair evaluation despite fake news and distortion. Literature that has narratives and deals with emotions and emotions that move the human heart is a complete genre that can return to the truth in the post-truth era where fake news is prevalent. If non-fictional discourse forms explore the meaning and expression of the event in the category of literature, and literature also conveys the truth through literary devices and various formal aesthetic expressions, it can be more effective for readers to accept it. The truth of our time can be communicated when the act of reconstructing a huge historical event into a literary discourse is accompanied by the legitimacy itself. Literature has a humanistic status in that it can embrace universal human intelligence and sensibility to imagine and draw a better world. And because its status is organic and inseparable from our lives, it has dignity that is neither high nor low. If the metaphorical language system replaces communication beyond objective information and presents a solution to ethical problems caused by fictionization, then the truth discourse in literature can be an alternative to the post-truth era.