Artistic Talent Research Articles

Hope Is an Arrow: The Story of Lebanese American Poet Kahlil Gibran by Cory McCarthy

Reviewed by: Hope Is an Arrow: The Story of Lebanese American Poet Kahlil Gibran by Cory McCarthy Elizabeth Bush McCarthy, Cory Hope Is an Arrow: The Story of Lebanese American Poet Kahlil Gibran; illus. by Ekua Holmes and with photographs. Candlewick, 2022 [40p] Trade ed. ISBN 9781536200324 $18.99 Reviewed from digital galleys Ad 6-10 yrs In this picture book biography of early twentieth-century painter and poet Gibran, McCarthy grounds spiritual and mystical explorations in the story of an introverted immigrant boy, who moved with his mother and siblings from Lebanon to Boston's South End when his father was jailed for political reasons back home. Painting was Gibran's first talent to flourish, and by his late teens he had artwork published, but he eventually expanded his artistic talent to poetry, tapping into his relationships with his family and to his native country. By the time of his death in 1931 he had become one of Lebanon's best-known sons. McCarthy's text can reach a primary grade audience with supplemental adult assistance (there is, for example, no explanation of the struggles of Maronite and Druze religious communities in Lebanon), but despite specifics on Gibran's early years and well-selected and placed quotations from his poetry, the content and popularity of his work are underexplored. Older readers who read the text in tandem with McCarthy's excellent end matter annotations will derive a much fuller picture of character and motivation. Holmes's vibrant collages, replete with Middle Eastern patterns and motifs, easily span these levels of readership, with scenes literal enough for primary-graders and sophisticated enough for middle-graders. A brief bibliography is included. Copyright © 2022 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

Application of Support Vector Machine Model Based on Machine Learning in Art Teaching

The purpose of the evaluation is to reflect on whether education provides a good environment and conditions for the development of students and to reflect on the effect of teaching and the practicability of the talents cultivated by teaching to the society. When art education is evaluated, a number of positive outcomes have been achieved in terms of the development of art education, including the improvement of art education as a whole, the development of art talent, and a stronger role for the educational and social communities concerned about the quality of art education. Machine learning-based support vector machine (SVM) can better tackle issues like nonlinearity, high dimensionality, and local minima, which have been effectively implemented in the area of teaching quality evaluation (TQE) with the fast growth of information technology and the Internet. The main work of this paper is as follows: (1) it briefly expounds the research progress of TQE and multiclassification algorithm based on SVM at home and abroad and introduces the relevant basic theories of these two aspects. (2) One-to-one combination method is used in this research, reducing training time to a certain degree. Tests prove the procedure to be objective and equitable. (3) This research claims that an art TQE approach based on SVM is suited for limited professional assessment sample data and provides a method for this purpose.

An Exploration of Dance Learning Stress Sources of Elementary School Dance Class Students with Artistic Abilities: The Influences of Psychological Capital and Self-Concept.

The purpose of this study is to explore the factors which may cause the increase of students’ stress in dance class in elementary school. In this study, students’ demographic variables, psychological capital (which includes four sub-constructs), and self-concept (which includes five sub-constructs) were used as predicting variables to estimate their influences on dance class students’ stress level. A structured questionnaire was distributed to 450 elementary art talent class students with 412 valid responses. Structural equation modeling was used to test the relationships proposed by the study. As for demographic variables, the results show that the grade, gender, and the dance class hours per week had no significant influences on stress, while the seniority level had a negative influence, which indicated that junior dance students had more stress than senior students. As for psychological capital, self-efficacy and optimism had negative influences on stress, while the other two sub-constructs, hope and resilience, did not have a significant influence on stress. As for physical self-concept, the worry of overweight had positive influences on their stress, while appearance, physical ability performance, health status, and satisfaction of body parts had no significant influence on stress. Based on the research findings, suggestions were made to reduce students’ pressure in learning dance.

Inheritance of Shandong Zheng in Shenyang Conservatory of Music

In this article, the Shandong tradition Zheng art the main way of art form, melody structure, performance, playing techniques and so on has carried on the simple demonstration, and famous Yun-Juan Zheng master Zhao Yuzhai’s representative works 
 to illustrate the new development of Zheng art in the 20th century in Shandong, as a folk to professional colleges and universities 
 teaching master of art, Mr. Zhao Yuzhai not only brought folk music into professional art colleges, but also cultivated a large number of outstanding artistic talents in Shenyang Conservatory of Music. Among them, artists represented by Mr. Gao Liang continue 
 to develop and innovate Shandong Zheng music art. This article uses the classical Shandong music piece “Ying Zhuan Huang Li” 
 and its variations to explain how Shandong Zheng music art adapts to the needs of the society in the new period, and continues to 
 inherit and develop the method, which is worth learning.

Research on Inheritance and Development of Shandong Yun-Juan Zheng Music Art in Shenyang Conservatory of Music

In this article, the Shandong Yuncheng and Juancheng area tradition Zheng art the main way of art form, melody structure, performance, playing techniques and so on has carried on the simple demonstration, and famous Yun-Juan Zheng master Zhao Yuzhai's three representative works to illustrate the new development of Zheng art in the 20th century in Shandong, as a folk to professional colleges and universities teaching master of art, Mr. Zhao Yuzhai not only brought folk music into professional art colleges, but also cultivated a large number of outstanding artistic talents in Shenyang Conservatory of Music. Among them, artists represented by Mr. Gao Liang continue to develop and innovate Shandong Zheng music art. This article uses the classical Shandong music piece Ying Zhuan Huang Li and its variations to explain how Shandong Zheng music art adapts to the needs of the society in the new period, and continues to inherit and develop the method, which is worth learning.

Voice Recognition and Evaluation of Vocal Music Based on Neural Network.

Artistic voice is the artistic life of professional voice users. In the process of selecting and cultivating artistic performing talents, the evaluation of voice even occupies a very important position. Therefore, an appropriate evaluation of the artistic voice is crucial. With the development of art education, how to scientifically evaluate artistic voice training methods and fairly select artistic voice talents is an urgent need for objective evaluation of artistic voice. The current evaluation methods for artistic voices are time-consuming, laborious, and highly subjective. In the objective evaluation of artistic voice, the selection of evaluation acoustic parameters is very important. Attempt to extract the average energy, average frequency error, and average range error of singing voice by using speech analysis technology as the objective evaluation acoustic parameters, use neural network method to objectively evaluate the singing quality of artistic voice, and compare with the subjective evaluation of senior professional teachers. In this paper, voice analysis technology is used to extract the first formant, third formant, fundamental frequency, sound range, fundamental frequency perturbation, first formant perturbation, third formant perturbation, and average energy of singing acoustic parameters. By using BP neural network methods, the quality of singing was evaluated objectively and compared with the subjective evaluation of senior vocal professional teachers. The results show that the BP neural network method can accurately and objectively evaluate the quality of singing voice by using the evaluation parameters, which is helpful in scientifically guiding the selection and training of artistic voice talents.

INOVASI PEMBELAJARAN AGAMA DALAM ERA DISRUPSI

Advances in information and communication technology have brought the world of education into a new era. Every student, especially in urban areas, has a gadget. They can easily and quickly navigate the virtual world, access information, socialize or have recreation with online games. They are comfortable spending time there. The audio visual design is so very tempting and catches their attention. Teachers and books are slowly getting overlooked. They prefer to look down at the screen and dissolve in virtual reality. This is the phenomenon of disruption that is hitting our world of education. The relationship between teachers and students is disturbed by the existence of gadgets with all the sophistication it offers.
 The era of disruption is an era of desacralization. Schools and teachers are no longer primary sources of knowledge. Like the jargon of a cellphone advertisement, now the world is in everyone's hands. The role of the teacher becomes relative in the search for "truth". Because students have got what they want to know with just a few clicks. It's faster, tends to be certain and can be done whenever and wherever he likes.
 Meanwhile, the teachers still hold tightly to the concept of three education centers, namely family, school and community. In fact, most of the children are active in cyberspace. An inevitable dimension of life exists and is real but is often overlooked. Teachers may often find students busy "playing cellphones" in class, uploads on social media that are so massive about their feelings. Although not infrequently there is also a talent for photography, art and positive expression. However, many parties are concerned about this as a threat.In my opinion, humans must always be the subject in all situations and conditions. So, responding to the phenomenon of disruption, as an educator, you must remain in a position of empowerment instead of feeling or allowing yourself to be deceived by gadgets that have already become a trend in students' lifestyles. Especially for religious teachers, students should not be influenced by negative content that can plunge them into pornography, spread provocations and hate speech, cyber crimes, and so on.This disruption phenomenon actually opens an opportunity for further learning exploration and learningdeep. Some of the things I have done are to invite students to criticize things that attract public attention on the internet related to religious, political and celebrity issues, use gadgets to create works (photos, videos, narrations) and upload them on social media. Like the cry of Saint Ignatius who reminded people to always try to find God in everything, so as educators we must try to help students find God and are sent to be bearers of glad tidings in virtual reality.

THE PLOT OF “FIRST LOVE” IN THE NOVEL OF THE SAME NAME BY I.S. TURGENEV AND THE “PICTURESQUE” ROMANTIC TRADITION

The article is devoted to the realization of the picturesque plot in the story “First Love” by I. S. Turgenev. The main character of the heroine is considered according to a combination of sculptural and pictorial plans. At the same time, the key features of this image are “statuary” and artistic talent for creating a “mental picture”, which reflects the internal dynamics of the heroine's image and overcoming the initial predetermined plot. The inclusion in the plot of the story of a casually mentioned painting with Malek-Adel, the hero of the romantic French novel by M. Cotten, provokes the role-playing behavior of Turgenev's heroes and points to a traditional romantic love story with a tragic outcome.

Making an American Opera Career: Conductor May Valentine (1890–1974) and a Woman's Role(s) in the Business of Opera

Making an American Opera Career: Conductor May Valentine (1890–1974) and a Woman's Role(s) in the Business of Opera

An Idle Heroine in Industrious Times: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’ The Story of Avis

An Idle Heroine in Industrious Times: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’ <i>The Story of Avis</i>

Guides to Heavenly Mother

Guides to Heavenly Mother

Rare Air: Long Day's Journey Into Night at American Stage

The 2019 production of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night, directed by Brendon Fox at American Stage in St. Petersburg, Florida, has been explicated and justifiably praised in the Eugene O'Neill Review. Fox gave readers an account of his directing process in a Practitioner's Colloquium from EOR 41.2 (2020), where he discussed, for example, the three key themes that had guided his interpretation: “the pain and cost of truth-telling, the power of the smallest personal choices of each family member, and the surprisingly deep amount of love and investment the Tyrones have for each other.” Fox's approach registered well with Jo Morello. In EOR 42.2 (2021), Morello described the production as a “lively, vigorous interpretation” that “served O'Neill beautifully.” She applauded James Keegan's alternatively imposing and tender Tyrone, highlighted Rose Hahn's heartfelt portrayal of Cathleen, and, above all, praised Janis Stevens's Mary, whose “unspokeneloquence […] resonate[d] beyond the text.”I traveled from West Texas to Florida in July of 2019 to see the production for two reasons. First, I was drafting my doctoral dissertation, which explored and expanded Shakespeare's influence on Eugene O'Neill's Tao House plays. Second, the actor playing Tyrone, James Keegan, is a close friend. James and I worked together for seven years as actors at the American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, Virginia. During that time, we performed in more than forty productions together: I played Hal to his Falstaff, Ferdinand to his Prospero, and even, in one particularly memorable show, a witch to his Macbeth.Being familiar with James's artistic talents, I anticipated an excellent show. But I was taken aback by the joshing humor, familial love, and soft-spoken poetry of American Stage's superb production. Brendon used the intimate playing space at American Stage to uncover new layers of complexity within the well-known characters of O'Neill's most famous play, and Janis Stevens's final moments as Mary left me speechless.In the following conversation conducted via Zoom, I revisited the production with Brendon and the cast. Brendon, who described directing as the process of “bearing witness,” helped me understand how fulfilling directing O'Neill can be. He emphasized the importance of creating a credible “family” of actors to enact the Tyrone family, of staging Long Day's Journey “organically,” and of seeking out unspoken moments and discordant notes in this operatic play. James revealed how an actor can excavate their personal history to truthfully embody an iconic role, and Janis explained how simple—simple, not easy—the task of playing Mary Tyrone can be. As her castmate Billy Finn (Jamie Tyrone) remarked, it only “takes everything youhave.”Joshua Odess-Rubin (Edmund) rounded out a superb cast and participated in the discussion. As I hope you will discover, this was an equally entertaining and edifying discussion that shed new light on one of O'Neill's best-known plays.

La Linea del Colore

La Linea del Colore

“Real war ammunition:” Artists for Victory, the National War Poster Competition, and the Hostile Imagination on the United States World War II Home Front

“Real war ammunition:” Artists for Victory, the National War Poster Competition, and the Hostile Imagination on the United States World War II Home Front

Category of the Epic as a Part of the Theoretical Paradigm of Contemporary Musicology

The article is devoted to the question of the categories of the epic as part of the theoretical paradigm of contemporary musicology. It is proven that nowadays there are many books, magazines and articles about the epic genre of music. The concept of a soundtrack that appeared in the 1950s is highlighted of XX century. The compilation of songs “Carmina Burana”, which became the reason for the appearance of the music for the trailers was investigated. It has been established that since the 90s of the XX century, the first companies that were engaged in the creation of music for trailers began to appear - “Globus” and “Inmediate Music”. It is determined that the first studio album of the group “Globus” was “Epicon”. It is noted that video games belong to epic music. It has been studied that epic soundtracks are most often used in video games with the plot of war, confrontation and battles. It is noted that Jeremy Soule, who gained fame thanks to the game series “Elder Scrolls” and “Harry Potter” is the most famous composer of orchestral music video games. The importance of music is emphasized for the video games of the famous American composer Garry Schyman. Emphasis is placed on the talented works of German instrumentalist Hans Zimmer. It is noted that the music is epic and cinematic. Samples of the musical epic of Ukrainian composers are highlighted. Explored Japanese anime style animation. Revealed that talented artists receive the MTV Video Music Awards every year.

УКРАЇНСЬКІСТЬ ХУДОЖНЬОГО СВІТУ «НАРОДНИХ ОПОВІДАНЬ» МАРКА ВОВЧКА

The artistic world is a powerful tool of the influence on the reader, which means that it is a component of the poetics of the literary work. Its originality is determined by the features of the author's artistic thinking, his/her worldview (world understanding, world perception). For this reason in the paper a great attention is paid to the features of the writer's artistic talent. Linguistic talent allowed Marko Vovchok to successfully use the expressive and pictorial possibilities of the Ukrainian language. A deep and subtle sense of the language determined the special ability of the writer to penetrate into the soul of the people, their mentality, helped to understand their way of life, their customs and moral principles. This explains Marko Vovchok's ability to create archetypal images. The talent of the writer was also revealed in the fact that the phenomena and objects depicted by the writer evoke in the reader's imagination visual images imbued with an artistic and aesthetic emotion, which can rightly be called “artistic meaning”. For the first time in our literary studies, the paper deals with the artistic world of Marko Vovchok's «Folk Tales» as a coherent, systematically organized phenomenon. It is emphasized that this world is full of distinct Ukrainian flavor. If previously “Folk Tales” were considered mainly from the aspect of their anti-serfdom orientation, then the analysis of the artistic world of the short stories, their distinct Ukrainian flavor allows us to reveal another factor of the high artistic value of this prominent book by the outstanding Ukrainian writer. The magnificent Ukrainian nature, harmonious relationships in the Ukrainian family, the beauty and upbringing of Ukrainian girls, the Cossack character of Ukrainian men – all these are significant features of the characteristics of our nation, its mentality. In the paper, much attention is paid to the peculiarities of the writer's artistic talent.

Cultural Resistance and Art Production: Trends in Contemporary Maharashtra

How do artistic collectives engaged in resistance against Brahmanism and capitalism in the contemporary period produce new work? How do they grapple with questions of form, content, quality, authorship and individual talent in art, and how do these affect the productions of artistic collectives? This paper pursues these questions in a limited way via reference to two troupes from Maharashtra – the Bombay-based AvahanNatya Manch (1979-1997) and Kabir Kala Manch (2002-). It shows that the troupes worked consciously towards revolutionising the process of art production, as demanded by Walter Benjamin in his seminal essay The Author as Producer.They rejected hegemonic notions that characterised artists as fount heads of individual creativity and genius, trained new members in writing, compositions, theatre and music, and produced new work collectively, in continuation with the collective production of songs in the IPTA tradition in the 1930s-50s. This rendered authorship ambiguous and at times, problematic. But it also unleashed tremendous creativity within the collective. Their process also resonated with practices of Left-wing cultural troupes across the country in the 1970s and 80s as well as more contemporary troupes in Maharashtra and other states indicating collective production was widespread in the scene of cultural resistance.

Wypełnić puste miejsca. O fascynacjach literackich i praktykach adaptacyjnych Federica Felliniego

The main aim of this essay is to show the original adaptive technique used by Federico Fellini in his films, which were based on literature. Although Fellini was inspired by many literary works in his work, he adapted only four text directly. These are: Edgar Alan Poe’s novella Don’t Bet with the Devil on the Head, brought to the screen as Toby Dammit – a segment of the horror novella Three Steps into Madness (Histoires extraordinaires, 1968); Satyrics of Petronius (Fellini – Satiricon, 1969); The story of my life by Giacomo Casanova (film: Il Casanova di Federico Fellini, 1976) and Poem of Sleepwalkers (Poema di lunatici) by Ermano Cavazzoni, which are the basis of the director’s last work, the film The Voice of the Moon (La voce della luna, 1990). In the works transferred to the screen, the Italian director was looking not so much for material to create a faithful, cinematic version of the work, but he was looking for empty spaces that he could fill with images created in his own imagination (although in his own way consistent with what the authors of the literary prototypes had created). Thanks to this, Fellini’s film adaptations of literature are more projections of his artistic talent than the visions of the original creators of the book’s prototypes.

The Application of Knowledge Management Thinking in College Art Education Management

In the new era, more and more attention is paid to art education, and at the same time, the requirements for artistic talents are also getting higher and higher. In the process of carrying out art education and teaching activities, colleges must pay attention to art education management. The application of knowledge management thinking in the management of art education in colleges should be strengthen, so as to cultivate artistic talents with high art professional level and comprehensive quality in line with the current social development. The author explores and analyzes the necessity of the application of knowledge management thinking in college art education management, and proposes specific application measures, hoping to help improve the management level of art education in colleges.

Analysis on the demand of enterprises for the trainingof digital art talents

According to the requirements of the enterprise and the society for digital visual art talents, from the aspects of work service subject, work motivation, work ability, etc., we have carried out market research on a number of digital visual art enterprises in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Jiangsu, Changsha, Hangzhou and other six provinces. This research focuses on private enterprises, reflecting the requirements and hopes of many small and medium-sized enterprises for the training of digital visual art, involving many industry segments, such as indoor and outdoor architectural effect performance, animation product design, film and television animation, post stunt synthesis, advertising design, etc. This report is mainly aimed at applied digital visual art talents.