Art Lovers Research Articles

Sexuality of Elderly People

Abstract The subject of the work is the rarely discussed issue of the sexuality of the elderly. The article describes the sexuality of people in the "autumn of life". The aim of this work is to draw attention to the need to promote sexual health, as well as to prevent sexual disorders. A review of 34 literature items on various aspects of sexuality in the elderly was made: physiology, psyche, and social significance. There are restrictions on the intimate sphere resulting from the need for older people to stay in care and treatment facilities, social welfare homes. Love is presented as a biochemical process to show that it does not depend only on the changing corporeality of a person and that its epicenter is in the brain. The change of the hierarchy of sexual needs occurring with age, the evolution of the art of love from procreation to pleasure and sensuality are presented. Conclusion: the sexuality of seniors is an important sphere of their everyday life and has a large impact on functioning in society, as well as on the perception of their own attractiveness and self-acceptance.

La Vie En Rose - Danièle Sylvie Aron-Rosa

La Vie En Rose - Danièle Sylvie Aron-Rosa

Strategi Inovasi Pariwisata Indonesia Untuk Bertahan Pada Masa Pandemi Covid 19

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed various aspects of life, including the economic sector such as tourism. At the same time, an innovation strategy is needed so that tourism can survive in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. This study aims to introduce applicable strategies that are the key to the revival of tourism in Indonesia. This study uses a descriptive qualitative approach, using a literature study. The results of this study explain how the tourism sector, such as: 1. The travel agency uses one of its strategies in dealing with the pandemic, namely the Virtual Experience where this strategy is an expert trying to teach the audience how to make or do something, make coffee, and learn make-up for example; 2. Tourist Attractions also use the Virtual Music Concert strategy for music lovers who still want to hear their idols sing live during the pandemic even though they are not in the same location as their idols; 3. MICE (Meeting, Incentive, Convention, Exhibition) even implements the Online Exhibition Matters strategy where art lovers can still enjoy indigenous artworks online; 4. Hospitality implements one strategy, namely Work From Hotel specifically for workers who must continue to complete work during the pandemic and hotels provide a comfortable place for workers with complete facilities; 5. Tourism transportation is a public space that can become the center of the spread of the pandemic, therefore each tourist transportation must implement a strategy such as the Chse Protocol In Public Transportation, where transportation must serve passengers who want to travel by paying attention to health protocols (obligation to wash hands, wear masks and maintain distance), in addition, hand sanitizers are placed at each point, checking body temperature, filling e-HAC and many other protocols. and 6. The restaurant also implements the Dine-In Loyalist, Experience Seeker strategy where each restaurant customer is separated by a transparent barrier so that they can still enjoy food but also communicate.

The Cultural Value Validity of Digital Media Art Based on Deep Learning Network Model

The development of Internet digital media technology has enabled more works of different artistic styles to be discovered, learned, and appreciated by art lovers. Artists generate new creative ideas from different artistic painting styles, resulting in many artistic creation styles that are mixed with different artistic creation techniques. However, in the face of an increasing number of digital media art works, the identification of artistic and cultural value is mainly done manually by professionals, which costs a lot of human and financial resources. Therefore, it is of great practical significance to study how to efficiently and accurately classify various types of artistic images to help users select images that meet their needs. In order to solve this problem, this paper proposes a deep learning neural network model based on a dual-core compression activation module. The convolution kernels of different sizes in one module are used to extract the overall features and local details of the image, and another module is used to achieve the main goal. The enhancement of features and the suppression of irrelevant features realize the evaluation of artistic and cultural value. The experimental results show that, compared with mainstream neural network models and traditional classification algorithms, the proposed algorithm has higher classification accuracy and higher recognition and classification efficiency.

Diamonds and Deadlines: A Tale of Greed, Deceit, and a Female Tycoon in the Gilded Age

Diamonds and Deadlines: A Tale of Greed, Deceit, and a Female Tycoon in the Gilded Age

Diamonds and Deadlines: A Tale of Greed, Deceit, and a Female Tycoon in the Gilded Age

Diamonds and Deadlines: A Tale of Greed, Deceit, and a Female Tycoon in the Gilded Age

The Art of Shringara: Revisiting the Kishangarh School of Rajasthani Painting

This article revisits the Kishangarh School of painting at its artistic peak under the patronage of Raja Sawant Singh (reigned 1748–57), an ardent devotee of Lord Krishna. Under his guidance and patronage artist, Nihal Chand painted mostly on the theme of Radha-Krishna. Raja Sawant Singh visualized himself as Krishna and a lady called Bani Thani, a singer-poetess at Kishangarh court as his Radha. She had exquisite facial features which gave birth to a new aesthetic idiom, which included a high forehead, arched brows, drawn-out beautiful eyes and a sharp chin below thin lip. What followed was creation of some very iconic artworks which are much admired among art lovers. Bani Thani became something of a legend as she inspired landmark paintings of a prince and his muse in different settings which were close to being illustrations of the poetic works of Raja Sawant Singh, which he had penned in his devotion to Lord Krishna. The article traces the history and context of this style of the Kishangarh School, a sub-school of the larger Marwar School of Rajasthani painting.

Art as therapy

Art as therapy

Ars Erotica: Sex and Somaesthetics in the Classical Arts of Love

Ars Erotica: Sex and Somaesthetics in the Classical Arts of Love

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This article examines the barriers that limit access to video art online and offers practical solutions and suggestions to aid librarians in the search for digital video art resources. Videotape is essentially an obsolete technology, a fact that dramatically slows down digitization efforts. Furthermore, in support of the protection of artist’s rights, access to video art is often controlled by third party distributors. While distributors are crucial champions of the medium, issues of copyright complicate discussions of online access. Opportunistic art lovers have taken matters into their own hands, uploading work to online platforms and creating new liminal spaces of access. This article offers an understanding of video recording technology, the historical development and dissemination of video art, and the problematic nature of many online resources that provide access to these culturally valuable works.[This article is a revision of a paper presented during the 49th annual ARLIS/NA conference held virtually May 11–13, 2021.]

Sexual inactivation induced by the mucus that covers land snail love darts: sexual selection and evolution of allohormones in hermaphrodites.

The transfer of male accessory gland secretions is a well-investigated reproductive strategy for winning in sexual selection. An example of such a strategy is the conspicuous mating behaviour of simultaneously hermaphroditic land snails, the so-called shooting of love darts, whereby a snail drives a love dart(s) into the body of its mating partner. In the land snail Euhadra quaesita, it has been shown that a specific mucus which coats the love dart is transferred into the partner's haemolymph and that it suppresses subsequent matings in the darted individual. However, how the mucus of the love dart suppresses rematings remains unclear. In the present study, we tested the hypothesis that by injection of the dart mucus, love-dart shooters manipulate the physiology of a dart recipient and make the individual sexually inactive. In an experiment in which snails were provided with opportunities to encounter a potential mating partner, we found that the latency period to achieve sexual arousal was longer in snails injected with the dart mucus than in snails of the control treatments. This finding indicates that the dart mucus delays sexual arousal in injected snails. This delay in arousal is a novel example of the effects of the mucus in simultaneously hermaphroditic land snails. The remating suppression effect of the dart mucus is likely to occur through sexual inactivation.

Intangible Cultural Heritage Management Using Machine Learning Model: A Case Study of Northwest Folk Song Huaer

Machine learning is the core field of artificial intelligence. It provides a guarantee for the digital intangible cultural heritage management of artificial intelligence. However, the existing theoretical and practical research points out that there are still many gaps in this field. Huaer is a folk song popular in Qinghai, Gansu, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, and individual regions of Xinjiang. It is known as the soul of the northwest. It is a national human intangible cultural heritage. It was listed as human intangible cultural heritage by the United Nations in September 2009. With the rapid development of network technology and machine learning, it is very important to manage the network communication and deep mining of Huaer information. In this regard, use of machine learning natural language processing to mine the information of Huaer lyrics is proposed. By constructing the Huaer model of recurrent neural network (RNN), data mining of Huaer lyrics is carried out, and the built-in language module in Python is interconnected with dynamic Web pages. Four Huaer image segmentation methods and five deep learning algorithms are proposed, and the steps of image segmentation algorithm and BP neural network algorithm based on block technology are introduced. The results can provide new ideas for the protection and inheritance of music intangible cultural heritage and provide effective and high-quality information for Huaer art researchers and lovers.

Charles Sander Pierce Semiotic Analysis of Symbolic Meaning on Kriya Art of Panji Mask Cirebon

The local community in Mandarangan Village in Cirebon is located in the Kasepuhan palace area, which is often known as a cultural heritage of its ancestors, and so that many master craftsmen including craftsmen of Panji mask are born. The art of Panji mask craft has some interesting symbols to study. The art of Indonesian Panji Cirebon masks in the village of Slangit has many varieties of meanings in the form of visualization, which brings various interpretations to mask art lovers. This study aims to determine the symbolic meaning contained in the Cirebon style Panji mask using the semiotic approach of Charles Sander Pierce. The research shows that (1) the Cirebon style banner mask which is composed of visual symbols, namely tanpa jamang, nanggal sepisan eyebrows, menjangan ranggah eyebrows, leyepan eyes, kedhelen eyes, walimiring nose, prengesan mouth, white color all of these symbols are stylized from the shape of objects natural. (2) The structure of the visual symbolism of the Cirebon style Panji Mask which contains character values consisting of the shape of the eyebrows, eyes, nose, mouth and color. All symbolic structures are stylized forms of natural objects with character values of sacred, loyal, obedient, honest, innocent, simple, smooth, gentle, dashing, smart, wise, cheerful, and smiling or friendly.

SECRETS OF MONA LIZA?

Leonardo da Vinci, the founder and typical representative of the Upper Renaissance style, tried his hand at many forms of art, advancing advanced ideas in mathematics, mechanics, and physics. Each of his works is based on the study of life, warmed by the heart of the artist and expresses his attitude to life. Her masterpiece, Monna Lisa, still haunts all art lovers. It is unknown at this time what he will do after leaving the post.

Imagined Histories

Imagined Histories

ROMANTIC MOTIVES IN THE HONOR DE BALZAC’S «SАRRAZIN»

Romantic tendencies in the work of Honore de Balzac are marked by an appeal to various types of art: painting, sculpture and music. The French realist is interested in the issues of the essence of art, as well as the characteristics of the artist as a person who is genius and atypical and also who needs the understanding and participation of others. In the center of the novel «Sarrazin» is the figure of genius who strives for improvement and is in search of an ideal. However, the perfect image of human beauty becomes destructive both for the protagonist’s artwork and for his life. Love for the opera singer Zambinella, who turns out to be a young man, becomes fatal for the sculptor. If at first love inspires the young artist, then later it becomes incompatible with the love of art and even the life of the hero. The issue of art reception is singled out using the example of Sarrazin’s perception of vocal performance. Painter and sculptor is especially sensitive to the perception of music. Musical art transports Sarrazin to another world and his performer is etched in the hero’s memory forever. Attention is payed to the romantic symbolism of colors present in the text. Comparisons of the presentation of the artistic world in the author’s other novels «Gambara» and «Massimilla Doni» are traced. In the novels, there are romantic motifs through the prism of the presentation of music and the image of the artist. Emphasis is placed on the differences in the positions of Sarrazin and Gambara regarding the combination of different types of love: love of art and love for a woman. In addition, the artistic markers in the novels are highlights and their context is detailed in comparison with the mention of the names of composers and artists and artists and their works in H. de Balzac’s novel «Massimilla Doni» It is concluded that the artistic integrity of Balzac’s «Sarrazin» in combination with the presentation of art in the novels «Gambara» and «Massimilla Doni» indicate the realization of romantic motives in the artistic work of the French realist and complement the contemporary vision and understanding of art and its role in the life of society in general and of an individual in particular.

Polish Modernization in Biographical Films of the 2010s

This article examines representation of the state socialist past in three Polish biographical films, made in the 2010s, Bogowie (Gods, 2014), directed by Łukasz Palkowski, Sztuka kochania (The Art of Loving, 2017), directed by Maria Sadowska and Ostatnia rodzina (The Last Family, 2017), directed by Jan P. Matuszyński. It argues that it them Poland is represented as a country trying to modernize itself and investigates how this modernization is achieved. It does so by locating these films in two contexts: the discourse of Poland’s modernization and biographical film.

Forensic expert determination of the value of works of art in Russian legal proceedings

The relevance of the research of the Institute for the examination of works of art lies in the fact that it is the correct and accurate determination of the value of a work of art that makes it possible to make a legitimate and reasonable decision in criminal cases. In expert institutions, there are no problems in determining the value of mass-produced items, but problems arise when evaluating individual cultural values. We are talking about cultural values that have been withdrawn from free civil circulation and are in demand among collectors and other art lovers. The article discusses the methodological basis for determining the value of works of fine and applied art. The evidence of the urgent need for the introduction of a professional forensic expert determination of the value of cultural property into criminal proceedings is presented. To determine the value of a work of art, it is necessary to establish the authorship, authenticity of the work, the time and circumstances of its creation.As a result of the research, the article identifies the necessary types of forensic research to determine the value of unique cultural values, namely tracological, documentary, materials science, historical, art history and a number of other examinations. Currently, in the field of expert determination of the value of works of art, there are a large number of problems that need to be solved. Firstly, the development of a new examination, which would be called judicial value examination of works of art. Secondly, it is necessary to consolidate the norm that the value of a work of art should be determined only within the framework of a comprehensive forensic examination. Thirdly, we need a methodology acceptable for determining the value of any work of art. To do this, experienced specialists should be involved, who would develop standard requirements for the expert study of each type of works of art and for the preparation of an expert opinion.

The Rhetorical Phenomenon in "The Chaser": Employing Metaphor to Dissect the Text and Exploring the Art of Love

Based on a short story “The Chaser” written by John Collier, the essay focuses on analysis of how the rhetorical devices applied in the text play their role to reach the theme appropriately. Even if you are a writing novice, you can find it accessible to appreciate the magic metaphors and feel the values of love following the plume of the writer.

Art Lovers of the World Unite to Aid Florence: Techniques to Motivate the Crowd in Post-Disaster Heritage Crowdsourcing’

Art Lovers of the World Unite to Aid Florence: Techniques to Motivate the Crowd in Post-Disaster Heritage Crowdsourcing’