Art Movement Research Articles

Graph Convolutional Networks for multi-modal robotic martial arts leg pose recognition.

Accurate recognition of martial arts leg poses is essential for applications in sports analytics, rehabilitation, and human-computer interaction. Traditional pose recognition models, relying on sequential or convolutional approaches, often struggle to capture the complex spatial-temporal dependencies inherent in martial arts movements. These methods lack the ability to effectively model the nuanced dynamics of joint interactions and temporal progression, leading to limited generalization in recognizing complex actions. To address these challenges, we propose PoseGCN, a Graph Convolutional Network (GCN)-based model that integrates spatial, temporal, and contextual features through a novel framework. PoseGCN leverages spatial-temporal graph encoding to capture joint motion dynamics, an action-specific attention mechanism to assign importance to relevant joints depending on the action context, and a self-supervised pretext task to enhance temporal robustness and continuity. Experimental results on four benchmark datasets-Kinetics-700, Human3.6M, NTU RGB+D, and UTD-MHAD-demonstrate that PoseGCN outperforms existing models, achieving state-of-the-art accuracy and F1 scores. These findings highlight the model's capacity to generalize across diverse datasets and capture fine-grained pose details, showcasing its potential in advancing complex pose recognition tasks. The proposed framework offers a robust solution for precise action recognition and paves the way for future developments in multi-modal pose analysis.

Categorizing world regional art prices by artistic movement: an analysis of Latin American art

PurposeThe literature on the potential benefits of art investing has yet to consider the effects of categorizing world regional art markets (e.g. Latin American art) by artistic styles or movements (e.g. Latin American surrealism, Latin American conceptual art, etc.). We propose that such categorization should be carried out and analyze the Latin American art market as an example.Design/methodology/approachEleven artistic style price indices within the Latin American art market (30,288 artworks created by 293 artists and sold at auction between 1970 and 2014) are estimated using hedonic regressions: Abstract-geometric, abstract-informal, conceptual, costumbrismo, cubism, figurative, muralism, landscape, surrealism, nineteenth century and avant-garde. We find that several variables that rely on the corresponding Latin American art movement index have a significant relationship with painting prices.FindingsThere is significant variation in the financial performance of the various price indices for Latin American art styles: the conceptual (10.33% annual real return), abstract geometric (1.97%), cubism (0.97%) and costumbrismo (0.91%) movements overperformed a market that exhibited an aggregate negative cumulated real return of 0.9% during the sample period. The average correlation between each of the styles was only 0.12. The estimated price index for paintings sold at Christie's and Sotheby's clearly outperformed the index estimated for the other auction houses, and we also found that paintings created by Latin American women artists yielded higher returns.Practical implicationsOur results have practical applications for investors, collectors, auction houses and policymakers.Originality/valueThis is the first paper to highlight the need to decompose art price indices by artistic movements at the regional level.

Explainable quality assessment of effective aligned skeletal representations for martial arts movements by multi-machine learning decisions

How to utilize modern technological means to provide both accurate scoring and objective feedback for martial arts movements has become an issue that needs to be addressed in the field of physical education. This study proposes an intelligent scoring method based on machine learning. Firstly, the key features are extracted by the feature alignment technique, which eliminates the influence of athletes’ movement speed, rhythm and duration on the scoring, thus reflecting the athletes’ skill level more realistically. Second, to further improve the objectivity and accuracy, an adaptive weighted multi-model decision-making strategy is proposed. In addition, this study is the first to use interpretable artificial intelligence to provide feedback for teaching and learning Wushu. Experimental results indicate that the integrated model using the weighted average strategy not only outperforms other algorithms after feature alignment (on the XSQ dataset MAE is 0.237, RMSE is 0.442, sMAPE is 8.569, R is 0.633, Pearson’s correlation is 0.807, ICC is 0.856. on the UMONS-Taichi dataset, MAE is 0.29, RMSE is 0.438, sMAPE is 10.01, R is 0.844, Pearson correlation is 0.921, and ICC is 0.954. on the PBB dataset, MAE is 0.261, RMSE is 0.351, sMAPE is 6.765, R is 0.557, Pearson correlation is 0.753, and ICC is 0.82), but is also close to the performance of human experts. In conclusion, this study not only achieves a performance of movement evaluation comparable to human experts, but also provides a technical framework for the rapid realizing of automatic scoring in other martial arts styles, which will promote the popularization and development of martial arts education.

Artivist Response During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Athens: Insights into Urban Subversive Festivities

Through urban subversive festivities this paper explores artivist responses during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Athens (Greece). The disruption caused by the global pandemic in public spaces has prompted a critical examination of its role in urban claims and the evolving role of subversive festivities in artistic movements. These festivities transcend geographical boundaries and form rhizomatic networks that reclaim public spaces for political engagement through creative expression. The article focuses on urban subversive festivities from a Critical Geography point of view, opening the field to gender and decolonial studies through qualitative research including narrative interviews and mapping in urban space. We draw upon the experiences of two collectives in Athens, highlighting the transformative potential inherent in urban subversive festivities. We also argue the potential of festivities to transcend boundaries, create collective bodies, and spread as rhizomes. Ultimately, urban subversive festivities emerge as dynamic agents of change, claiming territoriality and offering new ways to understand the intersection of festivity, subversion, and public space and can be a constitutive element of resistance.

The Effects of the Revival of Minimalism on Home Textile Fashion and Minimalist Product Designs

One of the leading art movements, minimalism emerged in the 1960s and managed to influence numerous art disciplines; initially prominent in architecture, it later found app-lication in sculpture, painting, music, and fashion. The idea that the minimalism move-ment, which has become increasingly prevalent in design and fashion collections in re-cent years, should also be reflected in the home textile has prompted the initiation of this study. In this context, the first part of the study examines minimalism by discussing prominent artists of the movement, followed by an exploration of the relationship between fashion and art, and how the movement is reflected in textile fashion and home textiles. The final assessments and research indicate the need for elaboration of this mo-vement in the home textile sector, which is frequently embraced as a lifestyle and often manifests itself in the fashion industry. This study presents recommendations for the application of the relevant movement to everyday use home textile products. Throughout the research process, various visual and written sources have been utilized, and a comprehensive literature review on the subject has been conducted. As a result of the study, in the produced home textile products, the aim is to contribute to sustainabi-lity by ensuring a longer lifespan through the quality selection of materials.

“Creation” of new possibilities in museum collections—Tamara Cardinal's jingle dress and its potential to disrupt hegemony in museum collections

AbstractThis article explores the ways a work by Nêhiyaw (Cree) artist Tamara Cardinal (including performance art and a material item: a jingle dress with natural clay cones) takes an active role in transforming museum collection management. I argue that Cardinal's art, taken in context of Indigenous and museum interaction and some movements in performance art, transforms museum practice through its collection as a work of art.

Exploration and Research on "Creative Thinking" in Dance Education at Training Institutions

Dance is an art form that uses the human body's artistic movements as a medium to convey life experiences and express inner emotions. Dance has existed since prehistoric times, even before the development of language, and has continued to the present day. In recent years, with the guidance of national policies and the influence of the new media industry, dance has garnered increasing attention and popularity. As a result, public-oriented dance training institutions have rapidly developed. Xi'an, China, has emerged as an attractive "internet-famous" city in recent years, providing a large capacity and substantial opportunities for the dance training market. A variety of training institutions have flourished, displaying diverse educational approaches. Given this context, we conducted research on three typical institutions through interviews and hands-on experiences to explore their approach to "creative thinking" in dance education. Before conducting formal research, we provided a subjective definition of "creative thinking" from the perspective of our field of study, specifically in the area of "dance education" with which we are personally familiar. This definition entails breaking away from traditional "demonstrative teaching" methods, transforming the "teacher-authority" dynamic, and establishing an "open" learning atmosphere. Under this framework, we conducted our investigation.

In the footsteps of Lyubomir Dalchev and Anatas Dalchev in Italy – toposes, images, texts (Preliminary notes)

The article reports on the progress of research devoted to the „Italian period“ in the lives of two great Bulgarian artists, Lyubomir Dalchev and Atanas Dalchev, spanning the years 1926 to 1928. It presents observations on the critical reception of this stage in their biographies, the relationship between the cultural geography of Italy and the poetics of their works, and the logic of the translation dialogue facilitated by the poet and translator A. Dalchev. The article also includes visual illustrations outlining the main routes of the two authors‘ creative engagement with Italy. The research establishes the connection between the aesthetic pursuits of the Dalchev brothers and the Italian cultural tradition. It highlights how they not only became familiar with key phenomena and examples from the history of art, cultural studies, and philosophy, but also actively participated in the powerful artistic movements of the 1920s, leaving a lasting mark on the development of the cultural ties between Bulgaria and Italy.

Five Algerian postcards: a brief history of ‘Images Populaires’ in Maghribi chromolithography

ABSTRACT This article provides a historical introduction to chromolithographic printing in the Maghrib, paying special attention to the role of print in the spread of vernacular iconographies and figurative forms of Islamic art. I focus on five postcards – all produced in Algeria before 1928 by Éditions Bonestève – whose vibrant illustrations depict a variety of figures, creatures, and narrative scenes. They act as windows onto a huge visual archive of printed matter from the 19th and early 20th centuries that remains understudied in both the literature on colonial visual culture and Islamic art history. Perhaps due to their explicitly religious iconography, what is often overlooked about these chromolithographic images is how they were co-produced by European and North African actors and consumed by diverse markets of Muslims and non-Muslims alike; understanding them as fundamentally hybrid is crucial to appreciating their full mobility, their widespread aesthetic and political influence, and their ability to be read in diverse and sometimes contradictory ways. Ultimately this article challenges the dismissive label ‘images populaires’, while also asking whether a new reading of certain images as ‘popular’ and ‘Islamic’ is in fact possible if we look to their historical (re)appropriations within different communities, geographies, and political or artistic movements.

The Impact of Historical Art Movements on Medicine

Art and medicine have long influenced one another, with historical art movements shaping not only aesthetic trends but also conceptions of health, disease, and human anatomy. This paper examines the intertwined evolution of art and medicine across pivotal historical periods, highlighting the Renaissance’s focus on anatomical accuracy, Romanticism’s emotional engagement with the human condition, and Modernism’s reflection of trauma from warfare and disease. The analysis considers how visual representations, from anatomical sketches to symbolic portrayals of illness, have impacted public health perceptions and medical education. Additionally, the study examines the therapeutic uses of art in contemporary settings, underscoring the psychological benefits of art therapy in clinical care. By tracing these influences, this paper sheds light on art’s role in shaping healthcare practices, patient experience, and medical ethics, while advocating for continued interdisciplinary collaboration to enhance medical humanities and patient-centered care. Keywords: Art and Medicine, Historical Art Movements, Renaissance Anatomy, Modernism and Trauma, Art Therapy.

Memory and іmagination in Vadym Lesych's short story «The Intruder»

In this article, we analyze the short story "The Intruder" ("Intruz") by Vadym Lesych, a prominent Ukrainian poet and translator. The story is probably his only published prose work among those known to us (in one of the letters to the editor and publisher Yevhen Yulii Pelensky he talks about several written prose works, whose fate is unknown: "Love on Asphalt", "Dame Koro", "Story of My Heart"). "The Intruder" was written after the Second World War and published in 1948 in the journal "Arka" (reprinted in 1984 in the journal "Suchasnist’"). It portrays the lives of Ukrainian emigrants in post-war Europe, emphasizing their inner experiences while neglecting the broader social context. The article aims to explore the structural features, subtext, and artistic context of "The Intruder". To achieve this, we used primarily hermeneutic and analogical methods. The motifs of Lesych's poetry have served as clues for our analysis, including the motif of imagination as a misleading and threatening illusion. We conclude that "The Intruder" is an excellent example of psychological prose that delves into the inner worlds of the literary characters. Lesych rarely uses words that denote feelings and mood but describes them phenomenologically through bodily reactions and motions. In the center of the writer's psychological focus is a memory, which he interprets not as the reproduction of an experience but as the creation of a new reality, i.e., as an emotional construct. This memory specificity arises from the predominance of imagination as an external elementary force that replaces reality and takes over human nature, preventing us from approaching the actual situation. Lesych ironically undermines the imaginary memory by contrasting it with recollection based on inner feeling or bodily memory, which serves as a guide for life. Lesych's view of the human being as the object of the influence of internal and external elemental forces resonates with Miserabilism, an artistic movement of the mid-20th century, in part with the art of its leading representatives—Bernard Buffet, Jean Carzou, and Alberto Giacometti. These findings can serve as a basis for further research on Vadym Lesych's work and Ukrainian short prose in the 20th century.

Too Socialist Pop

This essay considers the potential for comparative analysis of postwar art in the Western world and Central/Eastern Europe. The work of the hitherto relatively unknown Czechoslovak artist Teodor Rotrekl, which evokes the style of Pop art, is used as a case study. The author of the essay argues that the social functions of art in the West and in the Communist bloc states are of greater consequence than the formal art languages. The substance of Rotrekl’s works remained largely consistent with the tenets of Socialist Realism. It can be argued that Pop art was not a global art movement, but rather a geographically limited aspect of postwar art.

Application of Mathematical Methods in the Analysis of Martial Arts Movements: A Case Study of the 720-Degree Aerial Lotus Kick Combined with the Horse Stance

This study investigates the application of mathematical methods in the analysis of the 720-degree aerial lotus kick combined with the horse stance, a complex technique in martial arts. Through kinematic and dynamic analyses, as well as numerical simulations, the biomechanical principles and optimization strategies for this movement are examined. The research findings highlight the critical roles of takeoff velocity, rotational velocity, and landing technique in the successful execution of the technique. The study also emphasizes the importance of progressive and systematic training programs, appropriate protective measures, and regular monitoring and assessment for safe and effective practice. The integration of applied mathematics in martial arts movement analysis is shown to provide valuable insights into technique optimization and injury prevention, offering a quantitative foundation for advanced training methodologies. However, the limitations of mathematical modeling, such as simplification and data quality, are acknowledged. Future research directions are proposed, including the extension of the mathematical framework to other complex techniques, the integration of advanced technologies, and the development of user-friendly software tools. The study concludes that the application of mathematical methods in martial arts biomechanics has the potential to drive innovation, inform evidence-based practice, and shape the future of martial arts research and training.

The Role of Art in Empowering Marginalized Communities

Art has historically played a significant role in providing a voice to marginalized communities, enabling them to share their unique cultural narratives, express resilience, and advocate for social justice. This paper examines how visual, performing, and folk arts contribute to the empowerment of communities that have long been excluded from socio-political and economic development. Through historical analysis of art movements such as the Mexican Muralist Movement and the Black Arts Movement, alongside case studies like the Allsorts SLAM and “I am Liverpool,” the study underscores art’s role in fostering identity construction, well-being, and social capital. Additionally, the paper addresses the challenges in aligning art-based initiatives with the true needs of marginalized groups and proposes strategies for creating sustainable, community-centered art projects that drive long-term empowerment. Keywords: Marginalized communities, Empowerment through art, Cultural identity, Social justice.

Exploring Global Arts Movements and Their Impact on Health Education

This review investigates the intersection between global art movements and health education, exploring how art can play a transformative role in promoting health awareness and education, particularly in under-resourced communities. Drawing on philosophical theories of creativity, behavior change, and real-world case studies, this research highlights how arts initiatives have contributed to public health awareness and education. The paper addresses the integration of arts in health education, the challenges faced, and the opportunities for creating a more holistic approach to health promotion. The review concludes by emphasizing the importance of cross-disciplinary partnerships to further integrate arts into health education for a more profound global impact. Keywords: Global arts movements, Health education, Public health, Arts initiatives, Social change.

To Be Free! The Art of Gavin Jantjes

This article contemplates the life and work of the Oxford-based South African artist and activist Gavin Jantjes, born in 1948 when apartheid officially became the law of the land in South Africa with the National Party’s election to power. Because Jantjes’s understanding of his role as an artist took shape in Cape Town in the 1960s, when every aspect of his life was dominated by the racism of the apartheid state, he has questioned both the incongruities of his life and what his role as an artist has meant, establishing himself as an outspoken and imaginative critic of institutionalized racism and other forms of discrimination. Facing the dual obstacles of race and poverty, as well as the pejorative assumption of the Western European modernist canon that Africans lacked the ability to produce meaningful contemporary visual art, Jantjes engaged head on as an artist and activist with tensions between Western modernism and classical African art and the trope of “primitivism” in Eurocentric art historical discourses. This article foregrounds Jantjes’s multiple roles, both in and outside of the studio and gallery spaces, by examining his paintings, prints, and drawings, as well as material related to his curatorial interventions, writings, and formidable publishing efforts, to reveal pivotal moments in his personal and artistic journeys across five distinct yet overlapping phases of his artistic movement from 1970 to 2023.

Women Artists of the Hungarian Avant-Garde and Their Connections to the Cobra Group

Abstract One of the most fascinating examples of networked art groups in 20th century art history, the Cobra art movement (1948‒1951), disrupted the logic of center-periphery relations in art through a model of cooperation between artistic hubs, in this case, Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam, as the name of the group suggests. However, Cobra soon became a model that was easy to extend to further connections and hubs, including Scandinavia and East Central Europe. Unexpected and mutual exchanges occurred within this artistic network. The article explores these exchanges through two lesser-known episodes of Cobra’s East Central European connections. Hungarian women artists like Margit Eppinger Weisz and Madeleine Kemény Szemere became involved with the activity of Cobra, and their case studies show specific models of circulating ideas.

Negotiating private and public relational boundaries of the Chinese female body through the lens of past and present

The social transformation of the reform era saw healthy economic development alongside the rise of consumerism and increased levels of corruption and unemployment. The effects of this rapid transformation greatly influenced the growing new generation who were readily exposed to the commodity economy and consumerist ideology. The contemporary private photography (Si Sheying) movement in China is said to have risen under such circumstances, pioneered and further developed by post-1980s and post-1990s individuals who grew up in urban cities with a knack for information technology. Driven by individualism, consumerism and technological modernization, these photographers have created some of the most controversial and sexualized photographs of their era. Yet, little research has been done to suggest a plausible historical provenance contributing to the rise and development of Chinese contemporary private photography, particularly in their depiction of the Chinese female body. This article seeks to draw from Republican-era (1928–36) photographers who have contributed to Shanghai pictorial magazines such as Liangyou, Shanghai Manhua, Shidai Manhua and Ling Long and have explored the different representations of the Chinese female imagery. It will further suggest how historical art movements like surrealism underpinned the ways in which the Chinese female body was discussed and displayed in printed media with considerations of the changing eroticization of the male gaze caught in a different mass consumption era. This article will then reveal the formation of the tripartite symbolism drawn from naturism, surreal humour and Rabindranath Tagore’s humane east that is inherent in the above analysis to suggest a surrealistic yet anarchistic transformation in contemporary private photography in China. Finally, it will draw this article to a close with the favourable conditions of the private–public, inner–outer (Nei-Wai) boundary, allowing the Republican-era Chinese females to be empowered to move between the two spheres and where Chinese contemporary private photographers continually use to break down binary divides that continue to hinder in today’s conditions.

Chinese Art’s Influence on Roger Fry’s Aesthetics Formalism

Roger Fry was one of the greatest art critics of the 20th century, who promoted the rise and development of the Western modern art movement and constructed a set of modern aesthetics formalism and art criticism theories, exerting a huge influence on modern art. Despite the formation of Fry’s aesthetics formalism cannot be separated from the background of the transformation of Western cultural traditions, the influx of Chinese art into the West at that time also had an impact on Fry’s aesthetics formalism. Fry extracted and reinterpreted from Chinese art, forming a distinctive formalist aesthetic theory. In Fry’s various works, the influence of Chinese classical aesthetics can be seen, such as blank space, rhythm, and emotional expression. The research will explore the correlation between Roger Fry’s aesthetic formalism theory and Chinese art. The study will analyze how Chinese art was introduced into the West and how Roger Fry was influenced by Chinese art. It will focus some particular elements like rhythm and blank space, explore how Fry reinterpreted them and applied to modern art criticism theory, using his work “Cézanne: A Study of His Development” as an example.

Calculated Randomness, Control and Creation: Artistic Agency in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

The recent emergence of generative AI, particularly prompt-based models, and its embedding in many social domains and practices has revived the notion of co-creation and distributed agency already familiar in art practice and theory. Drawing on Actor-Network Theory (ANT) and its central notion of agency, this article explores the extent to which the collaboration between the artist and AI represents a new form of co-creation and distributed agency. It compares AI art with artistic movements such as Dada, Surrealism, Minimalism and Conceptual Art, which also challenged the notion of the autonomous artist and her agency by incorporating randomness on the one hand and rule-based systems on the other. In contrast, artistic practice with AI can be described as an iterative process of creative feedback loops, oscillating between order and disorder, (calculated) randomness and calculation, enabling a very specific kind of self-reflection and entanglement with the alienation of one’s own perspective. Furthermore, this article argues that most artistic projects that explore and work with AI are, in their own specific way, a demonstration of hybridity and entanglement, as well as the distribution of agency between the human and the non-human, and can thus be described as a network phenomenon.