Artistic Production Research Articles

What can we draw from digitality?

The findings of this paper relate to a recent body of drawings in my practice that owe its genealogy to the reproductive technologies of printmaking and photography. I relate these findings to my understanding of the ‘index’, borrowing from semiotics, as distinct from the symbol in which it establishes its meaning along the axis of a physical relationship to its referent, therefore bearing marks or traces, whose causal effects signify the object it refers to. This is further extended by both the explosion of digitality that came on the heels of the financial crisis of 2008 and forms of automatism that follow a set of investigative procedures to organize and govern practice but do not determine outcomes. Digitality, here, is either utilized as a visible element of artistic production or utilized as a symptom of the present, materialized as a trace. It flattens the physical axis of the trace into an immediate presence that collapses virtuality and materiality together on a known artefact such as paper.

The Effect of an Instructional Program, Based on Creative Thinking, on Developing Painting Composition skills among students

This research, entitled “The Effect of an Instructional Program Based on Creative Thinking to Develop Students’ Skills in Composition of Painting”, is a study that, through designing a program, works on the basis of creative thinking to develop students’ artistic products and solve the problems of composition subject in a scientific way under the light of new and creative thinking. This study aims at revealing the effect of the instructional program on developing students’ composition skills. It also attempts to find out the differences between genders (male and female) in terms of the effect of the instructional program on students’ skills in composing paintings and utilizing creative thinking in their paintings. Likewise, this program was applied on fourth year students of plastic art department, painting branch at Chamchamal Fine Arts Institute. Experimental method has been used with one group that their number was 18 students. Psychosometric charectristics of the used instruments were obtained and then a pre-test was carried out with the students. In addition, the students were taught for 6 weeks through the new creative thinking program which was based on experts’ views and scientific sources. At the end of the course, a post-test took place that included theoretical and practical parts. The practical part and products were scored and assessed by a committee of specialists in the field. Moreover, the data was analysed based on the Mann Whitney U test, Wilcoxon Test equations. The results of the study showed that there was a positive effect of the instructional program on the developing painting composition skills. Regarding the gender difference, the study revealed that despite the existence of differences between male and female students in the pre-test, there was a signifant differences between gender in Painting Compositionin in the post-test. Suggesting that, the instructional program is benefical for both male and female students. Conversely, statistically signifant difference between gender was not found in creative thinking in the post-test.

실감형 미디어아트에 나타난 초현실주의 표현기법에 관한 연구

This study analyzes and proposes the possibility of combining realistic media art and surrealistic expressive techniques. To do so, we first understand the types and characteristics of surrealistic expressive techniques. In particular, we focus on Alexandrian and Suzy Gablik's work on depaysment. Second, by collecting and analyzing examples of d’strict's works, we summarize the characteristics of depaysment network representation in realistic media art. Third, we propose how surrealistic expression techniques can be used to improve the artistry of realistic media art and design education. This study is limited to six works in the d’strict, and is conducted through the methods of literature review and case analysis. The results of the study showed that the characteristics of the depaysment network such as 'opening up the unknown dimension' and 'bringing life' were mainly utilized in the six realistic media artworks of the d’strict. In addition, various depaysment elements emphasize the core meaning of the artwork through visual impact, which confirms that depaysment features enhance the effectiveness of realistic media art. Finally, this study proposes a theoretical basis for how the characteristics of depaysment, one of the surrealistic expression techniques, can contribute to the development of media art production and design education in the future.

ESSENCE, LAWS AND MEANS OF COMPOSITION ACTIVITY IN THE PROCESS OF DESIGNING AND MANUFACTURING PRODUCTS OF DECORATIVE AND APPLIED ART

The article substantiates the relevance of introducing information about the artistic direction into the training of future technological education specialists; attention is paid to the importance of art education during training of future teachers. It has been established that the future teacher of technological education must possess professional competencies that increase the efficiency of designing and manufacturing decorative and applied art products, which include competencies in the basics of compositional activity. In order to form these competencies, the educational process of training future technology teachers should include information that can enrich students with theoretical and practical knowledge and skills in fine and decorative and applied arts in the content of both basic and elective disciplines. Emphasis is placed on the expediency of studying the main concepts, laws and means of compositional activity in the process of training specialists in the field of technological education, the content of the main concepts, laws and means of composition is revealed and the importance of their application in the process of designing and manufacturing products of decorative and applied art is proven; the advantages of students’ use of professional competences in the design process are revealed and their effectiveness in the implementation of creative tasks is shown. It has been established that having mastered the basics of compositional activity during the design and manufacture of decorative and applied art products, students will be able to practically solve rather complex tasks of creating aesthetic compositions that will correspond to the selected material and the functional purpose of the object decorated in the process of artistic and labor activity.
 Keywords: professional competences; composition activity; technology teachers; decorative and applied art; design of products.

"I base my life on sadness": Apparently paradoxical sources of resilience among young Haitians.

Haitian expressions of resilience also hold deep knowledge of human vulnerability. This longitudinal, qualitative study with young Haitians from urban shantytowns combines ethnographic and participatory methods to explore the complexities behind such idioms. Artistic and creative products made by or with the youth facilitated interviews, focus group discussions, and workshops. Through the life stories of participants and rich ethnographic material, this study presents locally situated idioms of resilience (and distress). By including local social ecology, the idioms were framed as historically and culturally rooted, thus shaping contextual, pragmatic, and gendered coping strategies grounded in embodied experiences of vulnerability and resistance. The study adds essential insights into Haitian resilience, revealing the local logics behind seemingly paradoxical statements. By drafting a conceptual framework for further studies on idioms of resilience, the study also makes a theoretical contribution to international resilience research.

The Community Museum of Sierra Hermosa (Zacatecas): Rethinking the Museology, Landscapes, and Archives from the Desert

This article presents the methodology and collective work strategies that constitute the Club de Lectura y Museo Comunitario de Sierra Hermosa (Sierra Hermosa Community Museum and Reading Club) in Zacatecas, Mexico, a space founded by visual artist Juan Manuel de la Rosa, a native of this place. The museum emerged as a small library in 2000; and a short time after its founding, the museological program incorporated textile workshops and an exhibition gallery for a collection organized with local and external donations. It also operates with a system of rotation within the town. This article reviews the historical, theoretical, and critical implications around the conception and action of the museum, with a focus on the colonial and the migration status that sustains the reality and history of this rural locality, situated on the Tropic of Cancer in the north of Mexico. In the context of extreme violence, extractive politics, and migratory crisis in Zacatecas, this article analyzes two artistic productions by the local painter Luis Lara and artist Cristóbal Gracia, developed in the context of this experimental and rural museum curatorial program. Moreover, this article redefines concepts such as the border, mobility, and cultural contact in an artistic, museological, and pedagogical context, and proposes alternatives to study Sierra Hermosa’s memory, history, and landscape.

COLOR DESIGN OF JEWELRY AND ART PRODUCTS: PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS

The article is devoted to different ways of creating multi-colored jewelry and artistic articles, and the peculiarities of their design. It deals with the ways of creating multi-coloured compositional decisions of adornments, problems and difficulties, arising in the process of designing, manufacturing, exploitation and repairing of articles. It is shown that the attractiveness and durability of color design of jewelry and art items largely depends on the combination of various jewelry elements, lighting, surface treatment, used pre- cious and non-precious materials, technologies of their processing and decoration, color perception by dif- ferent groups of consumers and the changing fashion.

THE USE OF COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN SYSTEMS IN THE WORK OF AN ARTIST-DESIGNER OF JEWELRY

The article deals with the issue of a set of technical requirements for the design project of a jewelry. Unlike graphic design, which does not require the implementation of the project in the material, jewelry design can be considered realized only if the product is manufactured or can be successfully implemented without loss of artistic and figurative characteristics. An emotionally colored creative process is inextricably linked with an engineering and intellectual approach to problem solving, including the preparation of design documentation. The use of a three-dimensional design system in the creation of jewelry and art products not only accelerates the process of design implementation of the idea, but also helps to transfer these ideas into industrial production as accurately and technically as possible.

Investigation of the effects of red clay on the structural properties of chamotted clay bodies

Chamotte means fired clay. It is also called Grog and it can have many particle sizes, from fine to coarse. The composition formed by the addition of chamotte to various clay compositions is called chamotte mud (CM). The most preferred and widely used muds in the production of artistic ceramic products are chamotte mud and red pottery mud (R-PM). The sintering, linear shrinkage, water absorption, and color properties of these muds vary depending on their components and firing temperatures. Chamotte mud has properties that make it suitable for use at high temperatures (1150-1200 oC). The obtained products, however, have a high-water absorption value, because it deforms in high-temperature firings, the red Kınık pottery mud used in the study is typically used for artistic productions at low temperatures such as 900-1000 oC. Ceramic artists may prefer to combine and use both types of mud to enhance the color effects and shaping properties in their works. 
 The aim of this study is to reduce water absorption of the body while increasing firing shrinkage, in other words, increasing shrinkage during sintering by adding red pottery mud to chamotte mud and also to optimize the tendency of the R-PM to undergo deformation with temperature. As a result, the products obtained, particularly those produced for artistic outdoor use, will have a longer lifetime. In experimental studies, 6 recipes were produced by combining chamotte and red mud in specific ratios, and the changes in properties such as water absorption, linear shrinkage, color, gloss, microstructure, and sintering behavior of ceramic bodies as a result of firing at 1160 oC were investigated.

Before the Holocene humid period: Life-sized camel engravings and early occupations on the southern edge of the Nefud desert

The Neolithic of northern Arabia is characterised by monumental stone structures, ephemeral ‘hearth sites’ indicative of a highly mobile lifestyle, and a rich rock art heritage with iconic representations of domesticated livestock. However, the character and timing of occupation prior to the spread of pastoralism (ca. 6000 BCE) remains elusive, with only one stratified Epipalaeolithic site and two surface early Neolithic sites so-far known in the Jubbah Oasis. Here we present Sahout, a newly documented rock art site with Neolithic and earlier occupations, on the southern edge of the Nefud desert. The rock art is dominated by life-sized, naturalistic, engravings of camels, which are in some cases superimposed with Neolithic imagery of domesticated sheep. Surveys and test excavations carried out in the vicinity of the rock art revealed a lithic assemblage with similarities to the late Epipalaeolithic and Pre-Pottery Neolithic of the Levant. Radiocarbon ages from two test trenches and two hearths indicate repeated occupation at Sahout between the Terminal Pleistocene and the Middle Holocene, which partly mirror the rock art sequence. Investigations at Sahout indicate that rock art production in northern Arabia may have begun earlier than previously thought. Research also suggests a broader geographical extent to human occupations prior to the Holocene humid period.

The Ittar Industry of Kannauj: A Saga of Commodification of Olfactory Aesthetics

Kannauj is an historic city in northern India, which is known since antiquity for producing high quality natural ittar (natural perfume). This study explores the notion that perfume is a product of science and standardised production and marketing practices, whereas ittar is a natural product derived from traditional knowledge and craft production processes passed on through generations. The study highlights the ‘deg-bhapka’ technique of ittar production, explores the lifeworlds of the artisans, their perception of the art, discusses the main ittar varieties, and explores the role of social and cultural capital in preserving the legacy over generations. Semi-structured, open-ended interviews were used for data collection. Finally, the study examines the contemporary challenges and bottlenecks in this heritage industry and the incongruency of the art of ittar-making to the nuances of the capitalist economy. The possibilities for evolving and marketing ittar as a ‘green’, ‘organic’ and ‘indigenous’ product of traditional art and contemporary aesthetic standards are explored.

A new vision inspired by the school of geometric abstraction to enrich the field of Saudi plastic painting

Art is a language in which the artist expresses himself, his society, and the events he lives in, so new artistic trends emerged, so the artist no longer practices his art as required by any previous artistic rules. And the thoughts wandering inside him, which led him to the abstract method in which the artist tries to employ the elements of the artwork in a plastic construction through which he achieves the relationships of the abstract form through the rhythms of lines, colors, spaces, shapes and textures without these plastic elements having any connection with the visual reality.The research aims to find a new vision inspired by the school of geometric abstraction to enrich the field of Saudi plastic painting. And to take advantage of the characteristics of the school of geometric abstraction to produce innovative paintings in the field of plastic painting. The research dealt with the geometric abstract school in terms of the concept, its origin, and its most important artists and works. The research community consisted of the total artistic productions carried out by the artist, as an intentional sample of artists who dealt with the geometric abstract school style was chosen in their artistic production. The researcher followed the analytical descriptive approach in tracking the literature related to the geometric abstract school, and the experimental approach in conducting the research experiment. The researcher reached the following results: 1- Introducing new visions from the geometric abstraction school with various techniques with distinctive rhythmic systems produced by the artist's thought and imagination through the geometric abstraction school method, which affected the flat plastic painting.2- Geometric abstraction is characterized by strong tools and elements such as: fragmentation, simplification, compositions, overlapping lines and colors, in addition to methods of repetition, vertical and horizontal perpendiculars, and oblique axes in a structural relationship.3- The artist was able to reflect his emotions on the lines, colors and tools he used to produce the artwork according to what he deems appropriate in the style of the geometric abstract school.

CREATING THE IMAGINATION OF CULTURAL HYBRIDITY: GÜLSÜN KARAMUSTAFA

In Turkey, new trends, which are alternatives to traditional art production in terms of method, material and subject, started to become visible as of the end of the 1970s. In the activities carried out under the leadership of the State Academy of Fine Arts and accompanied by the intellectual efforts of the Academy teachers based on philosophical discussions in the West, graduate students they had the opportunity to exhibit new and different productions and to be visible. In this generation, many artists who adopted new and different trends, beyond the classical painting and art education in the Academy curriculum; One of them was Gülsün Karamustafa. In addition to bringing local political and cultural elements to her artworks over the years, the artist has exhibited a diversity of materials and attitudes; It has continued her production process uninterruptedly by carrying it to the international level and has become one of the important names of Turkish Contemporary Art. Karamustafa's studies, which have developed around the issue of migration-based cultural hybridity, which emerged in the socio-political field of Turkey after 1980, have a quality that makes sociological readings possible in the context of the political and cultural structure of the country. Listening to the migration stories of her family since childhood; The political background of her family members and her contact with Istanbul, which had a very active sociological atmosphere during her youth, enables the artist to create the main themes in her artworks. The imagery shaped by the period and environment in which she lived, in the context of a cultural transformation-based objectivity, leads to the emergence of products in Karamustafa's artworks, in which subjects such as migration, cultural hybridity, identity, arabesque and kitsch are mostly discussed. The artist has produced a sincere and original art production by simultaneously transferring social issues that she blended with her personal history in line with multiple materials and artistic expression. This study aims to evaluate Karamustafa's work, her life and the social memory of the period she lived in, that period’s cultural structure, political readings and her testimony in the context of cultural hybridity.

The aesthetics of abstract expressionism and its representations in the artistic productions of the students of the Department of Art Education

The aesthetics of abstract expressionism and its representations in the artistic productions of the students of the Department of Art Education

Online Art Gallery and Selling Platform (ARTOGRAM)

In the past, artists faced significant limitations in terms of how, when, and where they could sell their artwork. The absence of online platforms meant that artists had to physically reach potential buyers, often through art galleries, exhibitions, or spontaneous street sales. However, the advent of the internet has transformed this landscape, offering artists unprecedented opportunities to share and sell their creations to a global audience, thereby supporting their artistic endeavors. The artogram project capitalizes on the full array of applications and portals available on the internet. It takes the form of a dynamic web application, serving as a premier online platform for the discovery and display of creative work, fostering artist collaborations, and facilitating the purchase of art products. At its core, artogram offers a highly interactive and user-friendly interface, catering to art enthusiasts of all backgrounds. The website serves a multifaceted role, functioning as an artist's portfolio, a marketplace for the sale of artistic creations, and a hub for talent acquisition.

Artificial intelligence and the production of fan art

Artificial intelligence for image generation has become publicly available. Fans are using it to create fan art, which further blurs traditional ideas surrounding ownership.

TOWARDS A METHODOLOGY FOR INTERPRETING VISUAL IMAGES AS CYBERNETIC SYSTEM: LACAN AND DELEUZE

This exposition endeavors to outline a theoretical framework for a methodology to interpret visual images that draws on cybernetics, semiotics, psychoanalysis and philosophical ideas. Using images, aesthetics and artistic practices as a means of generating new understanding requires translating, deciphering and interpreting those artistic products and/or processes. How can one decipher the system of visual language that underlies artistic productions? I suggest that cybernetics is requisite for such an endeavor. Cybernetic theory is the science of relations within a system, taking as its problematic the relation between a system and its productions or output; in some instances, it studies how the productions of a system influence the system itself. This exposition endeavors to articulate aesthetics or artistic works in terms of a visual language and as a cybernetic enterprise in the context of art-based research by drawing on the ideas of Lacan and Deleuze. For Lacan, aesthetics exists as a primary mode of discourse for the articulations of the unconscious, as evidenced in images in dreams, art and fantasy. Lacan is renowned for his dictum that the unconscious and its productions are structured like a language, but the kind of structure of meaning at work in the unconscious is less related to the structural grammar of a natural language than the syntax of mathematics and cybernetics. Drawing on Lacanian dream analysis, I evince how such an approach could be applied to aesthetic phenomena. Deleuze presents a semiotic theory, a theory of signs which evinces the generation of novel meaning in the unconscious; it can be said to be cybernetic in the way that it exists in a state of continual evolution, the output produced by the system engendering transformation in the system itself. Deleuze offers a framework for how the work of art or aesthetic phenomenon can be translated into new knowledge through the process of entrainment with signs.

The Effects of Cultural and Creative Product Attributes on Consumers' Purchase Intention: Based on Customer Perception Value Theory

It is still unclear how cultural and artistic product characteristics affect customers purchase intention. Based on the comparative study of cultural and creative products in two typical museumsthe Palace Museum and the British Museumthis paper explores the influence mechanism of product characteristics on purchase intention according to the theory of customer perceived value and finds that tool properties could promote functional value, the cultural metaphor could facilitate spiritual value, social orientation could enhance social value, and the richness of media has the function of promotion and spreading. The contribution of this study is to enlighten the marketing strategies of cultural and creative products.

Development and Validation of a Simple, Fast, and Accessible HPLC-UV Method for Cannabinoids Determination in Cannabis sativa L. Extracts and Medicinal Oils.

Cannabis sativa L. is a well-recognized medicinal plant. Cannabis regulations in Argentina are insufficient to solve the problem of patient access to full-spectrum cannabis-based products. So, the market of artisanal products with unknown quality and dosage of cannabinoids is increasing, and so is the local demand and need for analyzing these products. However, much of the latest validated methodologies for cannabinoid quantification include expensive instrumentation that is not always available in laboratories of health institutions in Argentina. The aim of this work was to develop and validate a simple and rapid HPLC-UV method for the identification and quantification of principal cannabinoids in cannabis resins, inflorescences, and medicinal oils using standard HPLC equipment. The cannabinoids selected for validation were cannabidiol acid (CBDA), cannabigerol (CBG), cannabidiol (CBD), cannabinol (CBN), delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (Δ9-THC), cannabichromene (CBC), and tetrahydrocannabinol acid (THCA). A method for the simultaneous identification and quantification of these 7 main cannabinoids was developed and then validated. Some data parameters were comparable to other reports with more sophisticated analytical instruments for the analysis of cannabis. The assessed limits of detection and the limits of quantitation ranged from 0.9 to 3.66 μg/mL and 2.78 to 11.09 μg/mL, respectively. The concentration-response relationship of the method indicated a linear relationship between the concentration and peak area with R2 values of > 0.99 for all 7 cannabinoids. The relative standard deviation (RSD%) varied from 2.34 to 4.82 for intraday repeatability and from 1.16 to 3.15 for interday repeatability. The percentage of recovery values was between 94 to 115% (resins) and 80 to 103% (inflorescence extract). The cannabis industry is growing rapidly, and there is a need for reliable testing methods to ensure the safety and efficacy of cannabis products. In addition, current methods for cannabinoid analysis are often time-consuming and expensive, while the HPLC-UV method herein reported is a simple, rapid, accurate, and cost-effective alternative for the analysis of cannabinoids in cannabis resins, inflorescences, and medicinal oils. This method will be proposed to be included in the Cannabis sativa L. monograph of the Argentine Pharmacopoeia.

From Anti to Pro: An Imperious Non-Resistance to Heteronormativity in The Writer

Heteronormativity, a sub branch of queer theory, has emerged as the legitimisation of heterosexual practices with privilege over sexual fluidity by various institutions. The unequivocal acceptance of heteronormativity embedded in society overshadows less-favoured sexual orientations, hindering these minority groups’ representation and reflection in society. Theatre as a form of art production serves as a medium to appreciate the diversity of sexual orientations by performing related plays on stage or, at least, giving voice to the concerns of individuals with so-called abnormal sexual tendencies. Still, heteronormativity subjugates to the end of appealing to the spectator, which is to be criticised by playwrights as in The Writer. In this metadrama, the power struggle between the female Writer with homosexual tendencies and the male Director with a conventional mindset induces turbulence and aggravates the communication between the two. Despite the Writer’s efforts to denaturalise heterosexuality through staging a homosexual scene in a mystic sphere, her attempt faces difficulties from the Director, and she finds her scene on stage in an implicitly heteronormative form. Hence, the imposition of gender binaries on the Writer’s lesbian couple displays how heteronormativity is embedded in the ending of both Hickson and the Writer’s plays and how it predominates the Writer’s deep convictions who has been opposing the heteronormative formations.