Art School Research Articles

The Boca Bauhaus Marcel Breuer, BRiC and Lynn University’s NFT museum

ABSTRACT ‘Art and Technology – A New Unity.’ This was a slogan of the Bauhaus art school, but it could also be a slogan for digital artworks that have been minted as NFTs. We trace the lineage of the idea of the unity of art and technology from: the Bauhaus art school, which operated from 1919–1933; to buildings in Boca Raton that were co-designed in the late 1960s by a former Bauhaus teacher, Marcel Breuer; to an exhibit of the Lynn University NFT museum that, as of July 2023, is displayed in a building that was co-designed by Breuer and is now part of the Boca Raton Innovation Campus (BRiC). We juxtapose the Bauhaus’s approach to the unity of art and technology, understood by reflecting on Breuer’s architecture, with the unity of art and technology exemplified by NFT artworks. We argue that while audiences do not experience NFT artworks with the same ‘aura’ that audiences experienced when viewing artworks in the past, audiences can experience NFT artworks with what we call the ‘simulacrum’ of aura. Audiences can experience the simulacrum of aura because an NFT can be understood as original and authentic and cannot be identically reproduced.

Making sense together. The cabinet of curiosity as path to reconsider education for all

ABSTRACT This paper refers to a project that we as an art school carried out together with the Flemish organisation VVOB in Zambia. The main goal of the project was to equip primary school teachers with the necessary knowledge and infrastructure to deliver basic ‘education for all.’ The paper challenges the implicit instrumentalization of the arts in that approach, but also brings back to the forefront the notion of art as a practice that ‘makes sense together.’ Through cabinet of curiosity practices such as observing, noting, collecting, mapping, exposing and gathering, we explored how sharing emergent relational structures could be a starting point and even the essence of a pedagogical practice that thinks with and before the world, and approaches education for all as a study praxis rather than an end goal. The argument is built in company with authors such as Gert Biesta, Jean Luc Nancy and Tim Ingold.

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Urban rail transit design practice on cognitive obstacles in art and design majors

Background Students majoring in art and design exhibit a more assertive personality, emphasizing their interests and hobbies while emphasizing their major over culture. They are easily suffering from cognitive impairment under the influence of professional characteristics, family environment, and growth experiences. The research added practical content of urban rail transit design to some content of art and design majors. It is to achieve intervention in cognitive impairment of art and design students.Subjects and MethodsTwo classes of students majoring in design from art schools were selected as the research subjects and assigned to groups A and B. Group A adopts traditional art and design professional cognitive impairment treatment methods, while Group B participates in urban rail transit design practice for combined intervention. The experimental total lasted for six months, and the data were organized according to SPSS23.0. t-tests for comparison between the two sets of intervention pre and post were used.ResultsAfter intervention, the perceptual-cognitive function score of Group B increased to 54.46 ± 6.68 points, and the perceptual-cognitive function score increased to 20.32 ± 1.97 points, significantly higher than Group A. At the same time, the quality of life score increased to 11.68, resulting in a significant improvement of 1.66 cases.ConclusionsThe combination of traditional treatment methods with urban rail transit design practices has an effective intervention effect on treating cognitive impairment in art and design majors.AcknowledgementThe 2022 general topic of philosophy and Social Sciences in Colleges and universities in Jiangsu Province (No. 2022SJYB1204).

Associations of artists of the beginning of the XXI century in the context of the development of the artistic life of St. Petersburg

The activity of modern art associations, creative unions and art groups of professional artists of St. Petersburg is currently a little-studied and debatable issue. The specifics of St. Petersburg communities of this kind are closely connected with the traditions of the local art school and at the same time innovative, and sometimes are radical creative searches of their representatives. Such a combination leads to the formation of a diverse, but heterogeneous and mobile cultural space of the city on St. Petersburg. To understand its specifics, it is necessary to analyze the structure, composition and content of the work of the artistic associations of St. Petersburg, relevant for the beginning of the XXI century. In modern St. Petersburg, the process of forming art associations of various formations continues, which contributes to the development of fine art and the approval of its main forms, themes and genres. The main contribution of this research is to identify the main reasons for the creation of "young" creative associations whose activities are not related to the work of the Union of Artists of Russia, as well as to highlight the processes of their involvement in the cultural life of the city. It has been established that the "young" creative associations are characterized by unity of ideological and stylistic views and concepts, as well as a very flexible nature that allows them to be actively involved in the artistic life of St. Petersburg and the whole of Russia, to participate in the most diverse projects.

Art education on students’ ADHD in the era of self-media

BackgroundStudents cannot concentrate too much in their adolescence. With the popularization of self-media, high school students’ attention is attracted by diverse information, leading to the symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) appearing or worsening among those students. Art education, as a multimodal discipline, has the potential to assist students in directing their attention and mitigating the symptoms associated with ADHD.Subjects and MethodsThe research encompassed 150 high school students diagnosed with ADHD, meticulously selected as participants. These students were subsequently allocated at random into three distinct groups: Experimental Groups A and B, as well as a Control Group, with each group consisting of 50 participants. The Control Group remained devoid of any specific interventions, while Experimental Group A underwent traditional behavioral therapy. In contrast, Experimental Group B received an augmented approach, involving an art-centric curriculum intertwined with behavioral therapy principles. The evaluation of the intervention’s efficacy was undertaken through established ADHD assessment scales and feedback garnered from teachers.ResultsAfter three months, all groups participating in the treatment showed improvement in ADHD symptoms. Moreover, experimental group B showed significant improvements in attention concentration, impulse control, and social behavior compared to the other two groups. In addition, the academic performance and artistic creativity of experimental group B have also been improved.ConclusionsIn the era of self-media, the role of high school art education takes on a pivotal significance, offering a potent instrument to aid in the concentration of ADHD-afflicted students and improve social skills. The amalgamation of traditional behavioral therapy and art education may provide a more comprehensive and effective treatment plan for this special group.

Efforts to increase Perisai Diri athletes’ agility, speed, balance and flexibility components through shuttle run, zigzag run, and formation of 8 training method

The biomotor component is an important factor for an athlete, especially athletes from the Perisai Diri martial arts school, to achieve achievements in a competition. Agility, Speed, Flexibility and Balance are four biomotor components that are very dominantly used in the training process and are often used by martial art athletes in competitions. The aim of this research was to find out shuttle run, zigzag run, and formation of 8 training method influence agility, speed, flexibility, and balance in pencak silat athletes. This research is quantitative research, with a quasi-experimental design of three balanced treatments. The sample in this research was 45 athetes from the 80 total athletes in population that selected by purposive sampling, devided in 3 groups, each group consisting of 15 athletes. Agility, speed, balance, and flexibility obtained with a valid and reliable instrument. The data analysis used in this research is the Wilcoxon test and the Kruskal Wallis test. To measure improvement using different means. The standard significance of sat is p=0.05 (5%). The results of the research prove that there is a significant comparison between shuttle running, zigzag running, zigzag running with a combination of 8 numbers, for agility and speed (p0.05), shuttle running is useful for improving balance and speed, zig-zag running is useful for improve dexterity and zigzag combines 8 figures which are useful for increasing flexibility. It can be concluded that there were significant differences between alternating training, zigzag running, and figure 8 formation running, especially in agility and speed. The back and forth running training method is useful for increasing balance and speed, the zigzag running training method is useful for increasing agility, and the figure 8 formation running method is useful for increasing flexibility.

The development of adolescents’ artistic perception in the children's art school settings

The article substantiates the relevance of studying the development of adolescents’ artistic perception in the children's art school which creates opportunities for students formation as subjects of culture and artistic activity as one of the factors of such perception development. In accordance with the purpose of the study, the developed model of adolescents’ artistic perception formation in the children's art school settings is substantiated and the empirical results of its implementation in the educational process of the Department of fine arts are presented. The authors emphasize that the developed model is based on the nescessity of comprehension of the meaning of a work of art in the fine arts classroom and acceptance of a teenager in artistic activity as a creator of a new reality; the methodological basis of the model is hermeneutic and poly-artistic approaches as well as principles adequate to them (a dialogue, personalization, cultural conformity of the educational process). They determine the content and leading methods of adolescents’ artistic perception development in a children's art school setting (the method of participation in artistic action and the method of projects). Using the set of research methods described in the article, the authors present the developed model implementation results, indicating positive development of artistic perception of adolescents manifested in higher awareness of how the artistic knowledge is applied in artistic and creative activity; emotional responsiveness to the artwork; skills and abilities of the artwork compositional analysis.

Exploring the Interplay of Vocabulary Size, Depth, and Reading Performance among Engineering Students in an ESP Context

The primary objective of this research is to examine the impact of vocabulary size and vocabulary depth on reading performance in an English for Specific Purposes (ESP) context. To this end, we administered three tests to a group of 92 engineering students enrolled at the National Graduate School of Arts and Crafts (ENSAM) in Meknes, Morocco. The tests included the Vocabulary Size Test developed by Nation and Beglar (2007), the Words Associate Test designed by Read (1998), and a reading performance test with a high-reliability score of .87. The collected data was subjected to statistical analysis using linear regression and Pearson correlation. The findings revealed significant correlations between both vocabulary size and vocabulary depth with reading performance. Interestingly, the results indicated that vocabulary depth exhibited a stronger predictive association with reading performance compared to vocabulary size.

Visual styles, hidden discourses

This article reports the findings of a study aimed at exploring the visual discourses at a Chilean education university. First, building on the classic ‘hidden curriculum’ and ‘school art style’ literature, it justifies the need to discuss how higher education institutions model the ways through which teachers-to-be comprehend and use visual resources. Second, the article presents the results of a critical visual methodology performed in the oldest education university in Chile. Through a visual discourse analysis of the experience of walking around the campus, it elaborates on the university’s visual styles comprising the themes, technologies and locations of artefacts. Third, it discusses the relationships between courtyard and hallway images loaded with critical motivations and classroom images portraying stereotyped and anachronistic views of childhood. The article concludes by urging to incorporate quality visual pedagogy orientations in teacher education.

Развитие имплицитных знаний учащихся при преподавании искусства в китайских общеобразовательных школах

Due to the renewal of the concept of art education in Chinese comprehensive schools, changes in teaching methodology and the use of modern teaching methods, it has become necessary and urgent to discuss and optimize the teaching of art disciplines in Chinese secondary comprehensive schools. The article describes a pedagogical approach to respond to the changes by developing secondary school students' implicit knowledge. The essence of spiral teaching methods is considered, the importance of integrating implicit and explicit knowledge in the practice of teaching art is emphasized. The necessity of application of the method of stimulat-ing individual creativity through activation of implicit knowledge in the secondary general education school of China is substantiated. Requirements for the basic qualities of a modern teacher in pedagogical practice are described; the feasibility of stimulating students' implicit knowledge in teaching art in secondary general educa-tion school, confirmed by the methodology of teaching practice and practical examples, is proved. It is empha-sized that in secondary schools, where the main task is orientation on universalization of knowledge, skills and abilities of students, art education contributes to the development of the child's personality potential, his social adaptation, revealing the vital possibilities of perceptual mind.

The Heritage of Tsarist Russia’s Military Forts as an Object of Postcolonial Revision: Case of the Kaunas School of Art Building 1922–1923

The aim of the article is to rethink which objects in contemporary Lithuania are worth being European cultural heritage and which are not — as many of them are now being used by the neighboured aggressive country as examples (politicised arguments) for today’s Russia’s imperial historical narratives. Results of the research demonstrate that the discussion on mitigations of Tsarist Russia’s military forts heritage is a new topic, as the recent decades in Lithuania have shown that the heritage of military forts’ architecture in the post-soviet decades is being protected even more than in Soviet Russia’s occupation period. So, this trend in Lithuanian cultural Heritage research emerges as an object worth deeper postcolonial revision. Significant is building the future from the past. Within this frame of thinking, the article invites us to remember the national history and select well-known cases from the country’s past as most valuable for national and cultural identity. The example of the famous 100-year-old Art School building in Kaunas city (which in the interwar period 1918–1940 was the temporary capital of the Republic of Lithuania) was chosen as the article’s main case study. After 100 years, there are no longer any doubts or debates as to how much the area of the 9th battery in Kaunas Oaks Hill (Ąžuolų kalnas) has “suffered” due to the fact that the complex of buildings of the Lithuanian national Art School was built in a Tsarist Russia military fortress plot. This is evidenced by the other mentioned cases — today outstanding national cultural heritage objects were built a century ago replacing Tsarist Russia’s military architecture, meanwhile, according to the laws in force today — these buildings should be protected. Conclusions. Russia’s war against Ukraine, it’s the right time to reassess countries’ critical heritage: in which situations it is worth, how much it is worth, and in which it is no longer worth protecting the architectural heritage of military power formed by Tsarist Russia, especially when it is ruined and too difficult to adapt it to the needs of modern people.

Bauhaus Pedagogy and the Paradigm Shift in the Visual Arts

Rainer Wick (1986), in the subchapter "Bauhaus pedagogy in the context of art school reform", raises the discussion between the interpreters of the radical break with the tradition of this school, and Walter Gropius’ argumentation of Bauhaus pedagogy in relation to certain traditions inherited from medieval lodges, workshops and Renaissance guilds, in the context of the art school reforms of the early twentieth century in Europe.
 In this connection, this text shows a paradigm shift in the visual arts of which the Bauhaus is a part, imperceptible in discourses, but indisputable in the works of a model of Bauhaus artists that includes Gropius, Kandinsky, Albers, Moholy-Nagy, Mondrian, Malevich and Albers. The visual system of these works derives from a conception of art that is contrary to and incompatible with all tradition, but which is superimposed by the Bauhaus means of craftsmanship and engineering.

Diamond Open Access: Researcher’s Best Friend or just a Distant Relative?

The costs of Open Access publishing increase year by year (e.g. Zhang et al. 2022). Diamond Open Access (OA), in which journals and platforms do not charge fees to either authors or readers, has been hoped to provide solutions for the current situation. Also, the Council of the EU highlights the importance of Diamond OA in the recent Council Conclusions (8827/23). Various incentives, such as Action Plan for Diamond Open Access, DIAMAS and Craft-OA are established to support the development of Diamond OA. However, do researchers really use Diamond OA publication venues? Is Diamond OA a researcher’s best friend or just a rarely met distant relative? Both international (Bosman et al. 2021) and national level (Frantsvåg 2022) studies have been conducted in relation with Diamond OA. This poster views the phenomenon on a local level by illustrating Diamond OA publishing at the Finnish Aalto University in 2018–2022. Aalto University consists of six schools: School of Arts, Design and Architecture, School of Business, School of Chemical Engineering, School of Electrical Engineering, School of Engineering and School of Science. Aalto Current Research Information System, ACRIS contains the comprehensive publication data of university’s researchers. Information on Diamond OA journals was added to ACRIS journal records in the spring 2023. We identified Diamond OA journals in ACRIS by using Directory of Open Access Journals and journals’ web pages. This information in relation with publication data will form the basis for our analysis. We recognize that information on Diamond OA is incomplete and our results only indicative, since only a third of diamond OA journals are indexed in DOAJ (Bosman et al. 2021). The poster seeks to illustrate the usage of Diamond OA channels from various aspects. How has Diamond OA publishing evolved over the years? Which Diamond OA journals and publishers are the most popular? What are the differences between schools? What is the share of Diamond OA compared with other Open Access types and how has the usage of different Open Access paths evolved?

A Reflection on Dialogic Diving Boards and Decolonising School Art: The African Mask Project

AbstractIn this paper, four colleagues working in teacher education reflect on a conversation. The conversation in question was a tangible discussion documented through frequent and purposeful email exchange, exploring traditionalist school art curricula through reference to lived experience, academic theory, and professional anecdote. The primary objective of this dialogic self‐enquiry was informal critical analysis of the cultural diversity and positioning of art objects that populate classroom curricula in English schools, starting with the ‘African mask’. The secondary objective of our conversation was exploration of how complex talk on culture and curriculum might be modelled for schoolteachers yet to initiate similar conversations in their own professional contexts. We each provide reflections on the success of our conversation against these objectives and find that while email exchange provided some formal advantages for the structure of our discourse, this was not as we might have expected. The dialogue facilitated a rhizomatic deepening of our individual questioning of culturality in the classroom, which while nourishing was arguably unproductive in instrumental terms. Collectively, our reflections suggest that dialogue may be a critical catalyst for the latter, inherently private work of decolonising one's own critical teaching praxis.

J.N. Hummel’s Piano Concert h-moll op. 89 in the Context of Mozart’s Nineteenth-Century “light” pianism

The purpose of this research is to analyse J. Hummel's Third Piano Concerto from the perspective of Biedermeier's establishments of Restoration "light" pianism, which embodied the spiritual aspirations to preserve the Rococo savings in the context of the adoption of the secularised art of the New Vienna School. The research methodology is the intonation approach of B. Asafiev school in Ukraine, which has direct analogies to the principles of Chinese musicology (see works by Ma Wei, Wu Go Ling). The specifics of the methods of historical and descriptive, musicological analytical, cultural, stylistic comparative, and interdisciplinary methods constitute the specifics of the apparatus of researching the works of the named author. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the fact that for the first time in Ukrainian and Chinese musicology, J. Hummel's Concerto is analysed in the light of the positions of Budermayer's "light play" pianism in continuation of the Mozartian line of piano creativity (according to the works of D. Androsova and L. Shevchenko) and in the development of the concept of neo-symbolism of post-avant-garde modernity according to O. Markova. Conclusions. J.N. Hummel's Piano Concerto h-moll op. 89 is marked by an impressive breadth of pianistic lyrical fioritura and the absence of theatrical drama, which corresponds to the instructions of Biedermeier, who tended to the ideal beginnings of worldview and religious humility of expression. The Concerto reproduces certain signs of Mozartian constructiveness (the second exposition with the soloist's theme, mainly the compensatory function of the orchestra), strophic expositionality that "blurs" sonata relations. The main thing is the dominant position of "piano lyricism" of ultra-fast finger movement, signs of waltzing, nocturnal, hymn-like themes in the presentation of themes that correspond to Biedermeier's mythological and religious settings, based on the crescendoing dramaturgy of increasing the intensity of movement from the beginning to the end of the concert cycle in a two-phase presentation of the energy flow in the spirit of early Christian liturgy, adopted by the salon style of Biedermeier.Key words: piano Mozartianism, pianism, "light" pianism, musical style, musical genre, concert.

A LETTER FROM SPECIAL EDITION EDITOR IN CHIEF - DR. JITENDRA SHARMA

The Faculty of Design and Arts (FDA), Poornima University, Jaipur in association with Adelaide Central School of Arts, Australia and Indian Institute of Craft and Design, Jaipur has successfully organised a Two-Day International Conference on "“ICETDA’23” International Conference on Emerging Trends in Design and Arts " on the 7th and 8th of April’ 2023. About 24 universities/ colleges participated in the conference, and a total of 81 papers were finalized for the final presentation. In this conference, renowned distinguished keynote speakers, Dr. Toolika Gupta, (Alliance Franciase de) from Indian Institute of Craft & Design (IICD), Jaipur, Prof. Achia Anzi from O.P. Jindal University, Prof. Bhagav Mistry, Dean- Design Culture, ARCH college of Design from Jaipur, Dr. Daniel Connel from Adelaide Central School of Arts, Australia, Dr. Mahesh Singh from Banaras Hindu University, Prof. Meenakshi Singh from IICD, Jaipur, Dr. Rena Mehta from IICD, Jaipur, Dr. Kingshuk Mukherjee from IICD, Jaipur, Dr. Dushyant Dave from Banasthali Vidyapith, Jaipur, Dr. Arjun Kumar Singh from Chitkara University, Chandigarh, gave their valuable insights and discussed about the latest issues in the domain. The presentation sessions were chaired by prominent resource persons from various colleges in India. The conference's main objective was to encourage scholars to have an insight into the different areas and exchange of ideas among inter disciplinary research areas of Design and Arts. Among the Few papers received, Few papers related to scope were selected to be published in the UGC Care-Listed Journal "ShodhKosh: Journal of Visual and Performing Arts" as a special issue titled "International Conference on Emerging Trends in Design & Arts". I express my sincere thanks to the publisher of Granthaalayah Publications for his/her noble partnership with the institution to motivate researchers with due recognition. The Faculty of Design and Arts (FDA), Poornima University looks forward to take this partnership to the next level with substantial research contributions to promote art and design forms in particular.Sincerely,Dr. Jitendra Sharma

Rolul și funcționalitatea cercurilor școlare în viziunea elevilor

Extracurricular activities are carried out both within extracurricular institutions (art schools, music schools, creative centers, clubs) and within school institutions through student circles. The authors proposed to identify the students’ position regarding the functioning of school circles, externalizing a series of aspects, such as: the source of information about the existence of the circle; motivation for joining the circle; teacher-student relationship; the relationship between students; teaching methods; evaluation method; the skills developed within school circles.

The Influence of Contemporary Art Trends on Modernist Design

Fauvism is an important school of modern art, in which Fauvism in the exploration of color is beyond the predecessors, in the color has been liberated, at the same time, has an important impact on modernist design. This article only discusses the influence of Fauvism’s artistic thought and artistic expression on modernist design.

The Mediating Effects of Self-Efficacy on Entrepreneurship Education and Student’s Entrepreneurial Intention

To those pursuing careers in business disciplines, entrepreneurship education has become crucial. Based on entrepreneurship education philosophy, this study examines how learning and intention affect secondary students' entrepreneurial goals, especially those of Malvar School of Arts and Trade students in Grade 10. This tackles the scarcity of research on the role of self-efficacy as a mediator between entrepreneurial intention and entrepreneurship education. The descriptive correlational method of research was utilized in this study. The primary tool for collecting data was the questionnaire created by the researcher. Respondents were 198 Grade 10 students at Malvar School of Arts and Trade. The respondents believed entrepreneurship education and self-efficacy strengthened their intention to become entrepreneurs. They also believed that entrepreneurship education increases their understanding of starting their enterprise. Between entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial intention, self-efficacy plays a crucial role, enabling students to anticipate when they will start a new firm.