Artistic Approach Research Articles

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.

“The Last Word” from The Source: André LeRoy Davis’ contributions to Hip Hop and comics

ABSTRACT André LeRoy Davis is best known as the creator of ‘The Last Word,’ a series of one-page comic illustrations that were featured on the last page of The Source magazine. They were published non-stop in countless issues of this Hip Hop periodical from September 1990 to January 2007. This article is a compilation of edited excerpts from an interview session conducted during the winter of 2020. It was held shortly after the Schomburg Center’s Annual Black Comic Book Festival in Harlem, New York. The conversation focuses on how André’s experiences during his formative and adult years inspire his comic art content. We discuss his family’s origins in Barbados; his experiences growing up in Brooklyn, New York; the Hip Hop culture within the High School of Art & Design when he was a student; his earliest experiences as a professional freelance artist; and the evolution of his creative process.

Supervision Model of Supervisors of Islamic Religious Education in Improving The Personal and Social Competence of PAI Teachers in Wadaslitang District

This study seeks to reveal how the implementation of the PAI supervisory supervision model in improving the personality and social competence of PAI teachers in the Wadaslintang District. This research is a qualitative type, using a descriptive explanatory case study strategy. The subjects used samples with several data sources from school principals, PAI supervisors and PAI teachers in Wadaslintang District, and structured interview data collection techniques, questionnaires or questionnaires, and documentation. After being analyzed, it was written that in choosing the model for the PAI supervisor in the Wadaslintang sub-district, they did not use certain analytical techniques, they simply chose the preferred model and adjusted it to the conditions of the teacher where the PAI teacher was in the Wadaslintang sub-district. Seeing the habits of PAI teachers in the Wadaslintang sub-district who are compact and considerate of the conditions of other people, especially fellow teachers, so that supervisors use artistic models. According to the artistic approach, the supervisor knows about learning and is experienced as a teacher so that the person concerned gives meaning to ongoing learning without deviating from it. Supervisor approach with several steps: (1) Does not provide information about the learning to be observed. (2) Observing teachers who are teaching; (3) Observations that are carried out thoroughly from the beginning to the end of learning; (4) Provide a formal interpretation of the results of observations; (5) Submission of teaching interpretation results to teachers both in writing and orally.

Representasi pustakawan dalam The Librarian Season 1

Introduction. The success and acceptance of the community towards The Librarian Season 1, comic indirectly show an interest in the librarian profession. Although the library and librarian described in the Librarian Season 1 are fictional settings, the values in the world of librarianship cannot be ignored. This study aims to examine the representation of librarians in The Librarian Season 1 comic.
 Research Methods. The method used was qualitative. Collecting data was conducted by document study by exploring the website? 
 Data Analysis. This paper used Roland Barthes' semiotic analysis focusing on the denotative, connotative, and myth levels.
 Results and Discussion. In the comic The Librarian Season 1, there are 13 episodes out of a total of 15 episodes that have librarian representation scenes based on ideal characters in the Basic Framework for Indonesian Librarianship (KDKI). 
 Conclusion and Suggestions. Miche is a representation of the ideal character of a librarian based on KDKI. Therefore, the paper suggests that comic artists are considered to reproduce story ideas about librarians in comics, content, or other pop culture products. Librarian representation in the comic The Librarian Season 1 can be an alternative educational media for both prospective librarians and public.

Becoming bamboo: Reassessing Su Shi's painting theory from Deleuze's angle

AbstractThis article aims to elucidate the Chinese literatus Su Shi's painting theory using French philosopher Gilles Deleuze's concepts of “capturing forces” and “becoming.” In the relevant scholarship, Su Shi's esthetic thought has been illustrated as going beyond the truthful representation of forms, thereby capturing the underlying vitality of the targeted objects, which paved the way for what came to be known as “literati painting.” This artistic approach has been thought to express the artist's lofty and virtuous personality through the liveliness of the objects. I fully embrace the “capturing vitality” part of the literature, further fleshing it out not just by closely analyzing some of Su Shi's extant writings on painting but also by assessing them side by side with such European painters as Paul Cézanne and Francis Bacon. However, I find the “expressing personality” counterpart to be rather limited for interpreting Su Shi's esthetic thought and instead suggest the artistic effect of “becoming” as central to his ultimate esthetic aims.

On demystifying the consumerist bubble and dismantling the obsession with superheroes: an interview with comic artist Appupen

ABSTRACT Below is a telephonic interview with George Mathen (Appupen) by comics scholars from India about graphic novels, commercial sketching, and consumerism. Brooding on the similarity and differences between comics and graphic novels, the scholars involved in this interview problematise the trend of consumerism in the present-day scenario and situate the contribution of graphic novels in establishing mindful consumption. The contributors are the scholars of capitalism and consumerism, who lay the foundation of the readership cohort in India and discuss the role of graphic novels in essentializing moral values. Comic artist Appupen defines his motif as spreading awareness about excessive consumption and eventual environmental degradation by employing his advertising experiences. By insisting on demystifying the consumerist bubble, he preaches for ‘brooding before buying’ through his four well-known graphic novels, viz. Moonward, Legends of Halahala, The Snake and the Lotus, and Aspyrus. Addressing the silence in his work, he calls for a complete mental and emotional investment of the readers to decode the true meaning. Moreover, he digs the superhero-based mainstream comics and the essentiality of dismantling the obsession with superheroes to reach out to the central force of the consumerist circle.

The mythological element of water in the works of V. P. Astafyev and Zhang Wei

Mythological elements play an important role in Chinese and Russian literature. Both the Russian writer V. P. Astafуev and the Chinese writer Zhang Wei show a great interest in myth in their works. Mythological imagery and associations become an important part of their artistic approach. The mythological element of water is one of the key imagies in the works of Astafуev and Zhang Wei. Through the analysis of the water mythologeme in their works, we have identified similarities and differences in the image of water in Chinese and Russian literature. The subject of this particular comparative study is the symbolic and mythological significance of water as the origin and resurrection of life in V. P. Astafуev’s novel „The King Fish” and Zhang Wei’s novel „The Ancient Ship”.

A Study of the History of the Development of Buddhist Iconography

Nowadays Buddhism is one of the world's major religions, and its means of transmission and artistic approach are diverse. As one of these means of communication, Buddhist statuary has also been passed on to the present day as an excellent form of art. The art of statuary is very rich, with different periods of statuary having different characteristics, which have been handed down from one generation to the next. The art of Buddhist statuary also varies from region to region. They have their own history of development, but they are not independent, learning from each other and from other regions and times. There is no clear lineage of the specific development of Buddha's statues and the specific history of their development in different regions and at different times. The aim of this paper is to trace the history of the development of Buddhist iconography, to sort out its development from Hellenism to its arrival in India and its subsequent introduction to China, and to clarify the influence of Greek sculpture on Indian Buddhist iconography and subsequently on Chinese Buddhist iconography.

Nilai kepahlawanan serat wedhatama dalam komik gundala son of lightning

Gundala is an Indonesian superhero character created by a comic artist from Yogyakarta named Hasmi in 1969. The author's social background makes Gundala thick with Javanese cultural values. In 2019, Gundala was retold by the duet of Is Yuniarto and Sweta Kartika in the title Gundala Son of Lightning (GSOL). The two comic artists came from Surabaya and Kebumen. This study aims to find the value of heroism in the Gundala version (GSOL) according to Serat Wedhatama. This research uses the theory of literary sociology and uses descriptive qualitative methods. The results showed that there is a new version of Gundala's heroic value which is reflected through being willing to sacrifice, humble and soothing the hearts of others, willing to lose, and patient. The conclusion is that although the character Gundala was created by a comic artist who is different from the original version, the value of Javanese culture, in this case the value of heroism, is still strongly possessed by this character. Keywords: Gundala, Sociology of Literature, Values, Heroism, Wedhatama Fiber

Light as an artistic tool of designing the architectural and urban environment

The article examines light as a tool of architectural and lighting design and a mean of artistic expression, which creates new social messages and influences environmental objects and the architectural environment. Within the scope of the tool, techniques of artistic lighting are researched and formed, traditional and innovative lighting tools of emotional and figurative formation of the urban and architectural environment from the standpoint of artistic design are determined. Traditional means and devices are lenses, optics, developer, LED and craft lamps. Innovative means and equipment are projectors, lasers, video mapping, theatrical elements, musical accompaniment, interaction through websites and mobile devices, management of the cloud environment using system controls, copywriting based on social messages and senses. As a result of the study, light methods of artistic design were considered, specifically transformation, digital art, emotional disclosure, city landmark, keeper of history, optical metaphor, fusion with nature, and types of artistic lighting were formulated. The analysis of the examples also allowed us to determine specific types of artistic lighting and light artistic effects: functional, atmospheric, optical, media or digital, combinatorial type with shadow and caustic effects. For each type of lighting, unique techniques and means of environment organization are formulated for each of the three levels: urban, architectural and object-spatial. The usage of methods, techniques and tools is possible both combined and separately. Their harmonious implementation and usage form an emotional interactive lighting architectural and urban planning environment with its own atmosphere and rules of perception. Successful operation of certain methods and means within each of the formulated types of environment lighting could express emotionality and social messages. Their organic interaction is possible applying an artistic approach based on the combination of philosophy and social messages with aesthetics and modern technologies and that encourages social responsibility and self-organization.

Turner Family Stories: From Enslavement in Virginia to Freedom in VermontThe Most Costly Journey: Stories of Migrant Farmworkers in Vermont, Drawn by New England Cartoonists

Turner Family Stories: From Enslavement in Virginia to Freedom in VermontThe Most Costly Journey: Stories of Migrant Farmworkers in Vermont, Drawn by New England Cartoonists

The pencil of cheap nature: Towards an environmental history of photography

This article sets out to draft a preliminary sketch of an environmental history of photography, as opposed to a history of environmental photography. It shows that such a history should be rooted in a conceptualization of our geological epoch as the Capitalocene: the age of capital. Seen in this light, photography can be understood as part of a longer history of what the article describes – building on the work of activist and journalist Raj Patel and environmental historian Jason W. Moore (2018) – as the ‘cheap image’. In this way, photography is shown to offer a succinct expression of the Cartesian dualism that Patel and Moore see as being at the heart of the Capitalocene: the externalized image of capital N nature that this world ecology necessitated. The article considers Mining Photography: The Ecological Footprint of Image Production (Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, 2022) a recent exhibition and catalogue that attempted to narrate in exhibition form a history of photography from such a perspective. Finally, it concludes with a discussion of the work of several artists from this exhibition who are seen as exemplifying ‘metabolic realism’, a new critical photo-based artistic approach.

Study of the 2019 Solo Batik Carnival Costume with an Anthropological Artistic Approach

Penelitian ini ditujukan untuk mengetahui bagaimana pementasan Solo Batik Carnivalditinjau dari segi antropologis untuk refleksi para pihak yang terlibat dalam pertunjukan seni tersebut baik dari segi design yang terkandung dalam busana batik, bahan yang dipakai dan mendeskripsikanperforma yang dipakai dalam busana batik. Penelitian ini dilakukan di Kota Surakarta. Khusus nyapada persiapan, pelaksanaan dan pasca pelaksanaan Batik Solo Carnival (SBC) tahun 2019. Sumberdata yaitu data primer dari informan yang dipilih secara acak dalam kegiatan koncarnival dansekunder dari dokumen pendukung dan jurnal. Metode pengambilan data menggunakan metode observasi, In Depth Interview dan dokumentasi. Teknik analisis data yang digunakan dalampenelitian ini adalah analisis data interaktif dengan pendekatan kualitatif dari teori antropologi seni.Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa pagelaran Batik Solo Carnival (SBC) diikuti oleh kostum daribeberapa negara yaitu Be Enchanted Myanmar, Amazing Thailan, Great adventure Timor Leste,Vietnam Timeless Charm, Kingdom of Wonder Kamboja, Wonderfull Indonesia, Uniquely Singapura, Malaysia Truly Asia, Kay Ganda Philipines, Simply Beautiful Laos dan The GreenHeart of Brunai. Berdasarkan jenis kostum yang ditampilkan kemudian dianalisis berdasarkandesain, bahan batik dan peforma dalam penampilannya Kesimpulan dari penelitian ini adalah (1)Desain yang dilandasi semangat mengeksplorasi ide, gagas, bahan, dan teknik, dapat menghasilkan rasaestetis yang mengekspresikan dan memberikan kesan kemegahan, mewah, glamour, dan kemeriahan. (2) Bahan batik merupakan pusaka warisan leluhur yang telah mengalami percanggihan yang luar biasakhususnya batik Jawa memiliki corak ragam hias paling kaya, teknik pewarnaan paling berkembang,dan teknis pembuatan paling sempurna dibandingkan batik dari daerah lainSebagai (3) Performa SoloBatik Carnival 2019 bukan hanya ajang kemeriahan karnaval tetapi juga sebagai alat dalammengenalkan kebudayaan dari masing-masing negara ASEAN.

A Review Of Alternative Ways Malaysian Artists Approach Self-portraits Painting

Painting for presentation Self-portraits have been revolutionised on several occasions. To achieve different effects in their portrait painting, the artist experimented and manipulated various media. Portraits are commonly defined in art as a likeness of a person, particularly a face till shoulders, but there are other ways to define a portrait and a painting. There is a lack of comprehension and interpretation of the topic. As a result, the purpose of this research is to trace the history of the self-portrait. From the 1940s to the 2000s, reviews were written in the form of a year-by-year chronology, identifying the approach used by local painters. Conclusion: The shift in the art movement from naturalistic approaches to a variety of styles resulted in new interpretations and opportunities for artists to create exciting portrait paintings. The development of a new understanding of the term "portrait painting" resulted in new interpretations and suggestions for a new way of presenting self-portraits, contributing to an alternative and creative way of practising portrait painting for Muslim artists.

ЦИФРОВОЙ КОМИКС И СЕТЕВОЕ ИСКУССТВО: ПЕРСПЕКТИВЫ ВИЗУАЛЬНОЙ КОММУНИКАЦИИ

The paper is focused on the possibilities of contemporary hybrid forms of a graphic novel. The explosive growth of computer technologies and web-infrastructure at the end of the twentieth century led to emergence of a actualised global network platform and new opportunities for a variety of arts. The art of comics did not stand aside either: new channels of communication and distribution sites, interactive functionality, animation, video and sound included. Comics is a synthetic form of art merging with other mediums, among which there are painting and graphics, as well as interactive formats of works that are constantly evolving, providing more opportunities for visual interaction with the audience. That is why our issue is to actualize the concept of a modernized graphic novel and its aesthetic possibilities. Analyzing the examples of “mediatized” comics (web-comics, AR and VR editions), which has become a platform for a development of up-to-date forms of narrative and new principles of communication with the reader / viewer.

Visualization Analysis of Sung Jin-Woo's Character in Solo Leveling Comics

Sung Jin-Woo's character, Solo Leveling Comics, is a web adaptation of a digital comic novel with an action fantasy genre created by comic artists named Chugong, H-goon and KI Soryeong. Solo Leveling was published in the form of a digital web novel, but as its popularity increased, Solo Leveling was adapted into a manhwa. Solo Leveling features a past storyline starting 10 years before the plot and the main character begins. At that time, there were random appearances of gates or portals all over the world. This gate represents a portal that connects the human world and the monster world. Explicitly the character Sung Jin-Woo displays illustrations of various scenes of violence such as beating various characters or stabbing other characters. This character visualization also seems to represent the characters of Sasuke and Naruto as one. The purpose of this study is to find out how to visualize the character Sung Jin-Woo in comics. The research method used in this study uses a descriptive-qualitative method of vehicle transfer analysis. Data sourced from literature studies. The results of this study show that there is a clear and varied development of the main character, namely Sung Jin-Woo, the comic artist provides narrative development to the main character in a clear and varied manner, by making variations, additions, simplifications, and subtractions that are influenced by the background of the storyline. without changing the main ideas and references.

AN ANALYSIS OF CODE MIXING INSIDE OF WEE WEBTOON COMIC

There are many different countries and cultures. The way people communicate will be different according to their mother tongue. People who have an ability to use more than one language are known as bilingual. The phenomenon of bilingual in Indonesia are influential, as time passes by it created a new slang language by combining and mixing two languages to communicate and known as code-mixing. Not only by oral, this phenomenon also occurred in written and drawn which on comic inside of Webtoon platform made by Indonesian comic artist. This research study is focusing on classified the dialogue which consist of a code-mixing. By using qualitative descriptive method this research study took a subject from WEE!! comic and object which from the dialogue that contains words, sentences, and phrase of code-mixing. The result of this research found words, sentences and phrase consist of three types of code mixing; insertion, alternation, and congruent lexicalization inside of WEE!! comic.

Artistic Approaches in Isometric Video Games

Artistic Approaches in Isometric Video Games

How the ‘Lejabys’ Came into Being: Artists and Workers in Struggle. A Spatio-Temporal Odyssey between ‘Mobilising’ and ‘Organising’

Art and other creative approaches can be a resource or a mobilising strategy for activists and artists. Little work has been done, however, on what happens in the interactions between artists and activists in the daily life of a conflict. We suggest that social mobilisations may be seen as organising processes as well as mobilising actions, and we analyse how creative and artistic approaches may contribute to this organising/mobilising reciprocal relationship. Based on an analysis of the conflict that accompanied the announcement of the Lejaby plant closure in Yssingeaux in 2012, which inspired several artists, we show that these approaches, by their capacity to grasp sensitive dimensions, favour spatio-temporal episodes that structure the struggle: some constitute protected spaces, which can correspond to an intimate reflexive time or to a collective moment of synchronisation of subjective temporalities; others correspond to hybridised spaces, which can be sometimes empowering and sometimes theatrical. We thus contribute both to the field of social movement analysis and to the role of art and creativity in the organisation and mobilisation within these movements; we also contribute to a relational reading of the spatial and temporal dimensions of organisation and collective action, in the tradition of Lefebvre and Massey.

It’s Life as I See It: Black Cartoonists in Chicago, 1940–1980

It’s Life as I See It: Black Cartoonists in Chicago, 1940–1980