Rural Arts Research Articles

Environmental Landscape Art Design Based on Visual Neural Network Model in Rural Construction

Abstract As the resources of social development continue to tilt to the countryside, the speed of rural construction continues to accelerate. In recent years, because of the higher quality of lifestyles, the demand of rural environment landscape art has gradually increased. In order to assist rural construction and improve the artistic quality of its environmental landscape, this paper proposes an environmental landscape art design method based on a visual neural network model. Firstly, the Swin Transformer text encoder is used to characterise the landscape art demand in rural construction. Then, the text feature vector of landscape art demand is input into the GAN model to generate the image content of rural construction. Finally, to better evaluate the landscape art level of the above methods in this paper, we propose an evaluating method for the landscape designing tasks. We conduct the experiments and achieve the FID value of 15.23, which can demonstrate that our method can effectively carry out an environmental landscape design for rural construction and simplify the process of rural construction. The landscape design evaluation method can evaluate the environmental landscape design accurately by the accuracy of over 80 %, and further improve and optimise the acceptance link of rural construction.

Representations of the Themes of Conflict and Peace within the Tradition of Well Dressing

This article explores the themes of conflict and peace as depicted within the English calendar custom of well dressing, a form of rural folk art where large tableaux are produced annually in the summer months using only natural materials pressed into a clay-filled board which is then sited at a local water source as an offering of gratitude for the essential gift of water. The custom is traditionally associated with the counties of Derbyshire and Staffordshire although it has spread further afield in recent years. The research includes both fieldwork (the author has been documenting the completed well dressings as well as their construction for a number of years, and in 2022 became a participant in the custom for the first time by joining the team of volunteer well dressers at the closest site to where he grew up) and study of archival sources including local newspaper reports to see how elements of the design process have changed over the years and been subject to influence by external trends.

Replication of Characteristic Visual Motifs of Indian Rural Art Forms using a Generative Adversarial Network

The usage of Machine Learning in analyzing and creating art has accelerated substantially over the last couple of years, being used to mass produce novel pieces on a scale that artists would never have imagined feasible previously. This paper will focus on the study of an important Computer Vision tool- Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and whether or not it can learn and replicate the visually distinctive, defining characteristics of different forms of visual art, specifically rural Indian art forms. Indian rural art is a rich, underexplored area of visual media that consists of highly stylized, distinctive characteristics. We trained GANs to learn, abstract, and reproduce the visual motifs of five different forms of Indian rural art to understand whether GANs can learn these defining artistic attributes unsupervised and further our understanding of the differences between human intuition and machine perception of art. The textural and feature extraction ability will be analyzed through human perception as well as Fréchet Inception Distance to evaluate the quality of the generated images. This will benefit artists by allowing them to create artworks in unexplored genres, as well as benefit commercial industries, such as home décor and fashion, through the creation of different products in various art forms in an efficient manner.

Design and Realization of Rural Environment Art Construction of Cultural Image and Visual Communication

The practice of rural construction has been exploring and trying to adapt to the needs of rural development in various periods. In recent years, under the attention and promotion of the central policy, various social forces have joined the ranks of rural construction, and art intervention in rural construction has begun as a new method. Entering the public eye, it deeply intervenes in the construction and development of the countryside in a more gentle way, from the key point of interaction between the social and cultural orientation and the material needs of the countryside. However, most of the art interventions in rural construction practice only unilaterally use artistic techniques to beautify local areas or display works, without realizing the hidden artistic and cultural value of the village and ignoring the participation and role of the villagers in the whole process. After the construction is completed, once the foreign construction forces are withdrawn, the development of the village will stagnate. Therefore, mobilizing the main body of rural construction (original villagers) to participate in the joint construction of the village is an important link to solve the current problems of art intervening in the construction of rural settlements.

Neighborhood Spatio-Temporal Impacts of SDG 8.9: The Case of Urban and Rural Exhibition-Driven Tourism by Multiple Methods

Rural arts events (triennials/festivals) are mainly aimed at local and regional revitalization. This exhibition-driven tourism (unlike traditional festivals, conferences, and exhibitions) has existed for more than 20 years in Japan. The curators of exhibition-driven tourism hope that these events can promote the economy and stop population decline as a result of the aging population. Therefore, this paper attempts to evaluate the effects of urban and rural arts event tourism in local and neighborhood areas in Niigata, Japan from the perspective of SDG 8.9. The Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial and Water and Land Niigata Art Festival were chosen as case studies. Panel data (1997–2019) concerning tourists, income, and population in Niigata were evaluated using multiple empirical methods with descriptive correlation statistics (simple linear regression (SLR) and one-way ANOVA) and spatial analysis (Moran’s I). Through multiple-method analysis, the positive impacts of urban and rural arts event tourism in local and neighborhood areas in relation to Sustainable Development Goal 8.9 were evaluated. The findings presented herein have meaningful implications for tourism academia and the industry in general.

Friedrich Balthes - An Attempt to Reconstruct the Oeuvre of a Transylvanian Saxon Artist

"Friedrich Balthes was a young master of the national architectural style of the Transylvanian Saxons. Being a victim of the First World War (he died at the age of only 32, on the Serbian front, in 1914), he was almost completely forgotten during the century. Only the architectural monuments created at the beginning of the 20th century, of a remarkable modernity, are left behind by Balthes. These works are part of the German architectural movement, which was the forerunner of modern and also traditionalist architecture of the 20s of last century. Balthes designed many buildings in the national style of the Transylvanian Saxons: a style brought from Germany, and adapted to the Transylvanian cultural landscape. He was a multi-talented personality, also writing various studies and essays on the architectural art, on the cityscape, the culture of housing, interior art, folk art, the maintenance of rural art, the color in architecture and the decoration of the streets with plants, about the old frescoes of the evangelical chirch in Cisnădie and on many other subjects. As a self-confident Transylvanian Saxon intellectual, Balthes published his articles with the purpose to educate his nation for the new cultural ideas of his time. The following study aims to present a sketch of the multidisciplinary legacy of this remarcable artist, by showing some examples of his work. One of Balthes´ many architectural creations we presented herewith the evangelical school and parish house in Bruiu (built between 1912 and 1914), wich is a good example of the architects idea of a new style, whitch overrcomes art nouveau. It was a Transylvanian Saxon national architecture, very modern for that period. It was a harmonious combination of the Transylvanian Saxon vernacular motives, with elements inspired by the German Reformarchitektur, promoted by architect and architecture theorist Hermann Muthesius. Keywords: Art History, Architecture History, Transylvanian Saxons, Reform 1900‒1914, History 1900‒1914"

An Analysis of the High-quality Integrated Development of Children's Choral Art Education in Urban and Rural Areas in The Context of Rural Revitalization

The revitalisation of the countryside is an inevitable trend in China's historical development, and there is a complementary relationship between it and the development of rural arts education. The choral art education for children at the compulsory education level in rural art education has a unique educational value due to its unique art form. Based on the analysis of the realistic conditions for the development of children's choral education in rural areas, this article explores three paths for the integrated and high-quality development of children's choral art education in urban and rural areas, taking the integration of children's choral art education into the process of national rural revitalisation as the starting point.

Experiencing art from a field of rice: How farmers relate to rural revitalisation and art at Japan's Echigo‐Tsumari Art Festival

AbstractFocusing on the Echigo‐Tsumari Art Festival (ETAF) in Niigata, Japan, we propose a novel conceptualisation of the role of art in rural revitalisation, focused on how local farmers experience art as a catalyst for social, cultural and natural change. Scholarship on the role of art in rural revitalisation has often focussed on arts’ problem‐solving affordances (e.g., economic, demographic) or on how rural engagements matter to art development. Instead, we turn our attention to the middle‐ground: how art intervenes in the everyday life and practices of farmers in the festival area. Based on interviews and ethnographic fieldwork, our analysis draws on the theories of Tsurumi Shunsuke and John Dewey to offer a broad and inclusive notion of ‘art’ and ‘aesthetic experience’. With this framework, we explore how farmers relate to different artworks presented at ETAF and how art can spur farmers to reflect on their lives, their farming and the environments they inhabit.

CHANGING NATURE OF TRADITIONAL KUTTI ART OF WESTERN RAJASTHAN

The ever-flowing stream of folk art is a unique heritage of tradition, these forms and handicrafts associated with the spontaneous joy of creation and social life, being beautiful, with their positive energy, vibrate the mind, and consciousness of man as well as the courtyard of the house. The credit for keeping these forms and handicrafts with importance of social life alive through traditions goes to the people of rural areas here. From the development of civilizations to the modern times, human beings have edited many types of arts. In all these types of arts edited by humans, the presentation of a unique tableau of emotion and experiences is seen. Be it folk arts of rural areas or court arts, each art has flourished and flourished over time, and gradually the forms of these arts have also changed. Flowing with the flow of time, these arts got oriented towards new changes due to modern art influences. Rajasthan has been famous all over the world for its art and craftsmanship. The arts here have been attracting everyone towards themselves, giving an unprecedented introduction to handicraft skills.

Exploring the Relationship Between Arts Festivals And Economic Development in Rural Island Regions: A Case Study of Scotland's Orkney Isles

This article explores arts festivals in terms of their relationship to local economic development within the rural island region of Orkney in Scotland. Fourteen qualitative, semistructured interviews were conducted with arts festival organizers, tourism representatives, and local volunteers during the summer festival season. The findings offer new insights into the factors affecting how arts festivals impact the local economy, the areas of the local economy that are affected by arts festivals, and the implications of funding from awarding bodies on the endogenous development of arts festivals. For instance, it is concluded that supporting the cultural values of locals is vital to the economic success of rural arts festivals through a strategic design in the combined integration of minimized paid staff and maximized volunteers. Furthermore, it is revealed how in certain cases the initial retention of funding may benefit start-up arts festivals in terms of strategic development of their social approval and natural progression. Through the provision of an original theoretical framework for the relationship between arts festivals and economic development in a rural island context, the article also makes substantive contributions to theoretical development and knowledge advancement in this field, while offering future research directions for rural studies researchers. Ultimately, island community practitioners such as festival directors, local authorities, and merchants could benefit from using the findings to develop enhanced strategic operations, which could generate greater synergies and sustainability for the local arts festival sector and ultimately contribute towards greater economic prosperity.

Woodwork and Artistic Tradition

This article emphasizes the concern about the endangered trend of rural arts in today's commercialised world. Modern products also face an endangered trend, like some rural crafts. Our comfort is that the international powers have not yet seized the patent for rural products such as soil products. It is conceivable that artifacts are the mirror of culture and how people's feelings, values, ideologies, aesthetics, etc. are expressed in the objects of artisans who have converted through artifacts. The persistence of traditional rural handicrafts and the social identity issues of the artisan castes who make them must be known in conjunction with the context of today's social change. Have Tamils lived with ecological thinking and classification of the materials into the art tradition, the purpose of this article is to examine.

Psychological Health Intervention of Rural Art and Cultural Communication of Dihuagu in Nanxian County under the Background of Network.

Background With the development of the Internet, people are facing greater pressure. People in modern society are facing the threat of mental illness. For people with poor mental health, it is necessary to take an appropriate psychological intervention. Nanxian dihuagu is not only a form of folk dance but also a collection of local people's artistic wisdom. Now, Nanxian dihuagu artists use network media to record it. Objective Introduce the cultural connotation and value function of dihuagu dance in Mingnan county. Methods In this paper, literature and field survey methods, according to the logical analysis method of dance point of view, a detailed analysis of multiculture, from the perspective of comprehensive academic research methods, explore the value and cultural significance of dance. Results The Internet has promoted the exchange of local art and culture, and the effective communication has been formed under the promotion of network media. But the Internet age has also led to some problems, and psychological intervention can effectively improve the psychological problems caused by the network. Conclusions In this paper, the research process is not limited to the dance itself, at the same time, starting from the local folk customs, focusing on the analysis of the significance and value function of dance culture, which provides a reference for the development and optimization of folk customs. And through the analysis of Nanxian dihuagu, we can know more about the national culture and promote the development of Chinese national culture.

Синтез традиций в современном театре Бангладеш: «Театр корней»

The article examines how the Eastern traditional theatre responded to the Western theatre in the context of the British colonial regime in the Indian subcontinent. From this point of view, the dialogue between cultures was practically not considered. Hence, this study is devoted to understanding the synthesis of European theatre and traditional theatre, which began to be considered a rural art form by the early twentieth century, meaning something simple or low. In contrast, urban theatre of the European type was perceived as something refined or high. Rabindranath Tagore had not been fully successful in synthesizing heterogeneous theatrical traditions in his lyrical plays. The Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA), an all-India organization of progressive writers-artists-activists, was established in Mumbai (Bombay) in 1943, played a significant role in creating the new cultural expression in the map of colonial Bengali theatre. Also, after obtaining independence in 1971, the theatre artists of Bangladesh sought a new language of performance in the urban theater, which would embody the people’s lives, hopes, and dreams. Eventually, the national cultural movement emerged in the decade of 90s in the last century. The movement was called the “Theatre of Roots”, which attempted to synthesize the traditional elements with the Western forms and enjoyed great popularity. Therefore, the article analyzes the play Wheel by Selim Al Deen, directed by Syed Jamil Ahmed, the most significant examples of the “Theatre of Roots” movement. In the study of this production, an analysis of the artistic process of synthesis of traditions in the modern urban theatre of Bangladesh is carried out.

Evaluation of English Literature Writing Skills Among Rural Arts And Science Student using DEMATEL Method

Evaluation of English Literature Writing Skills Among Rural Arts And Science Student using DEMATEL Method

Research on Art Intervention in Rural Design Based on the Cultural Ecology: A Case Study of the Xun Jiansi Village in Jiangxi Province, China

In 2021, the world will enter the post-epidemic era. China is at the end of the 13th Five-Year Plan for the integration of urban and rural development and rural revitalization. At the same time, the internal circular economy brings opportunities for rural development and regional revitalization. This article uses interdisciplinary research methods, integrates various design models involved in cultural ecology, and strengthens the connections between them, combined with innovative thinking in rural design, art promotion, cultural inheritance, and industrial upgrading paths. The article intends to solve how to use environmental art and public Art, experimental art and other art forms are involved in rural design, and based on the theoretical framework of cultural ecology, the rural design method is constructed through the case analysis of the Xun Jiansi village, and the innovative and characteristic development path of art intervention in rural design is studied.

Rural arts entrepreneurs' placemaking - how 'entrepreneurial placemaking' explains rural creative hub evolution during COVID-19 lockdown.

This article critically evaluates the development and impact of a new online ‘dance practice’ service in a rural creative hub Remote. The research asks: ‘How does entrepreneurial placemaking contribute to the evolution of rural creative hubs during the COVID-19 pandemic?’ To answer this question, the article critically evaluates the business activities of one artisan entrepreneur, applying placemaking and resilience. Using a case study strategy, this research employs online qualitative research. Creative hub development is explained as a result of ‘entrepreneurial placemaking’, forming the main contribution of this article. This term subsumes multi-layered exchanges. ‘Entrepreneurial placemaking’ is conceptualised as continuous becoming, and illustrated by Remote’s adaption processes to lockdown phases. Remote is turned into a stage for digital placemaking during the COVID-19 lockdown via the ‘open dance practice’ service provided by a performance dance artist. Findings highlight that to enact entrepreneurial placemaking, creative professionals need to draw upon adaptive capacity, which includes the ability to develop exchange relationships and business-related digital skills. Peer-learning is a recommended solution for developing such digital skills across artist entrepreneurial communities. This article contributes to the ongoing conversation on the role of creative hubs for socio-economic development foregrounding the activities of hub users.

Protecting a Broken Window: Vandalism and Security at Rural Rock Art Sites

The majority of the ancient rock art sites of the U.S. Southwest are located in rural locations that are difficult to monitor or police. These sites seem to exert a pull on humans, an attraction that not only provokes curiosity and wonder but also what can be classed as destructive responses or vandalism. Many crime control methods for reducing vandalism are based on traditional theories such as defensible space and broken window theory. In the case of rock art, however, these methods do not yield expected results and in some cases are even detrimental. Rural crime, including rural vandalism, as a whole is marginalized in criminology, which has been dominated by urban-focused approaches and theories. In the case of rock art, considering how security is approached and maintained ultimately leads to questions about human–object relationships with regards to crime and about object agency. By focusing on the policing challenges of one particular type of rural vandalism, we hope to contribute to the discussion of vandalism in rural spaces.

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Agricultural climate change and rural animation film application based on remote sensing images

Folk art is an important aspect of the Chinese nation’s traditional culture. With the growth of culture and the constant progress of urbanization, the role of folk art in modern society is becoming lower and lower, and people’s perception of folk art is becoming increasingly shallow. Folk art is not only an art form; it contains the history and culture of the Chinese folk religion for 5000 years. It is our origin and an important part of the Chinese nation’s traditional culture. Global traditional culture plays an important role in building China’s soft power and promoting national self-confidence and pride. This requires us to consciously encourage folk art in such a way that folk art can radiate new energy in contemporary society. Folk art is an art form focused on rural life, and the development of agricultural ecology has a huge influence on rural life. With changes in the global climate and the natural system, the ecological agricultural environment has also experienced earth-shaking changes. Remote sensing technology is therefore used to investigate the effects of agricultural climate change and the impact of rural art and culture. Firstly, the study of the basic operating methods and methods of remote sensing technology and the selection of the most effective monitoring model—the CWSI model, based on the characteristics of the remote sensing device combined with meteorological information. This model can conduct a detailed analysis of meteorological factors affecting agricultural ecology, conduct a full discussion of agricultural climate change and its impact on agricultural ecology, and provide a theoretical basis for the impact of agricultural climate on rural animation films.

Reconceptualizing teacher professional learning about technology integration as intra-active entanglements

ABSTRACT Since the 1980s, research about technological integration in education has relied on models that position teachers as inherently anxious and/or resistant. These models posit that the key to successful preparation and development is helping teachers accept that they must abandon their concerns and use these technologies regardless of personal and contextual circumstances. This article has three purposes. First, it offers a critical view of these linear models; second, it proposes a model based on concepts of intra-activity and on-going becomings in human/non-human interaction. Third, the article uses examples from data from rural English language arts teachers in the United States working to integrate technology into their teaching to illustrate how intra-activity and on-going becomings offer a helpful contextualised, identity-based framework for thinking about teacher-technology collaboration over traditional models. The article ends with suggestions for adopting the concept of intra-active entangled becomings into formal teacher learning about technology integration.

Community Film Making and innovative direction of rural art (An ethnographic study on a Sri Lankan community film 'Walapane Satana')

'Community film' is an attractive new term that has been emerged over the past few years. Though Sri Lankans are familiar with 'Community radio', the phrase 'Community film' is still a novel idea. But, it has been recognized by the world that community filmmaking is a broad concept that can be understood and produced in different ways, such as participatory community filmmaking and non-participatory community filmmaking. This study focuses on 'participatory community filmmaking' and tries to understand how it works, why it is made, what the benefits are, and how we can use it as a tool to achieve something positive. Under the qualitative research approach, an ethnographic study was performed. Films have been classified under various criteria, and it helps to understand what type of film it is. Primary and secondary data were collected. Preliminary data was collected through participatory observation and interview methods. Since the film, 'Walapane Satana' was the only film found from Sri Lanka and easily fit into the criteria to call it a community film, it was used for the study. The research revealed a solid socio-cultural background behind the making of this film. This particular community film has influenced the development of the place and individuals of this village in many ways. Almost all the villagers have participated in this film to attend and make, teach, learn, present, promote, judge, support, and span many artistic disciplines. Most importantly, some people have given up their lifelong bad habits to become a part of this film, and at the end of the film, they have entirely dumped those habits and have started effectively leading their lives. Furthermore, being a part of this film has added value to their lives, and it has empowered and educated them to become worthy citizens. These findings led the researcher to conclude the study with a strong opinion on community filmmaking as a powerful driver for social change.