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The rural landscape of Southern Italy is the result of centuries of interaction between natural resources and human practices. In the areas between Basilicata and Apulia, livestock farming was central from the Middle Ages until the early 20th century, shaping a territory organized around transhumance. This seasonal movement of herds across long distances required an articulated system of infrastructures, including tratturi (routes), masserie (farmhouses), and jazzi (sheepfolds). These elements formed a cultural an...

Land-art, as an art movement that started in the USA in the 1960s is also known as Earth art or environmental art. Is Land-art installation on golf courses more than just decoration of space? Is these Land-art returning to the ethos of protest? These questions are connected with purpose of this case study: A demonstration of how Land-art can be adapted for non-traditional spaces, such as golf courses. The methodological and practical issues surrounding the creation of new spaces for land art are demonstrated in th...

The Icelandic art community is a small, interconnected group that often presents challenges for newcomers, especially those lacking formal training, established contacts, or family ties in the field. This paper adopts an autoethnographic approach to explore how an emerging artist in rural Iceland constructs her identity and develops her brand. Although the findings may not be broadly generalizable, they provide a detailed case study illustrating how an enthusiastic amateur artist shapes her identity. Storytelling ...

This paper examines how chaos and order interact across evolutionary and cellular biology and the visual arts, proposing that creativity in both natural and artistic systems emerges from their dynamic tension. It presents a collaborative project in which a robotic drawing machine and a human painter co-created artworks, representing structured and unpredictable processes respectively. By comparing biological mechanisms such as mutation and repair with compositional strategies in visual art, the study positions cha...

This paper investigates the potential of character design in digital games as a medium for the preservation and reinterpretation of cultural heritage, using Slavic mythology as a case study. Despite its rich symbolic meaning and narrative complexity, Slavic mythology remains underrepresented in the global video game industry. By engaging with mythological deities, heroes and supernatural creatures from Croatian traditions, this research demonstrates how digital art practices can revitalize neglected cultural narra...

Our study analyses the representation of childhood in the works of art by Marc Chagall, Jean Dubuffet and Gian Carlo Riccardi, highlighting how, despite their different styles and approaches, all three artists used this theme for a profound iconographic and psychological exploration. This theme is present in the expressive research of numerous artists who have captured the immediacy, nostalgia and carefreeness of the world of childhood. The methodology is based on the principles of Art and Literature Psychology, w...

Culture, art, faith, and popular tradition come together every year on July 2nd in the extraordinary setting of Matera, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Southern Italy. The Feast of the Madonna della Bruna, the Patroness of the city, is a centuries-old celebration that exemplifies both tangible and intangible heritage. Central to the event is the grand Triumphal Cart: an elaborate machine in papier-mache that carries in procession the statue of the Madonna. Each year, this baroque work of art is newly created by lo...

This study reports an exploratory experiment at the intersection of painting, music, and cognitive science, examining whether multimodal creative exercises can enhance students’ focus. In a context of pervasive digital stimulation and shrinking attention spans, improving sustained concentration remains central to artistic practice and learning. Although music has been widely studied in relation to flow and cognition, painting has received comparatively less empirical attention outside therapeutic domains. Across...

This paper examines the embodied dimension of gesture and movement in painting through an interdisciplinary dialogue between artistic practice and neuroaesthetics. It explores how brushstrokes, textures, and compositional rhythms convey the artist’s presence and elicit embodied and affective responses from viewers. While painting remains a static medium, its gestural qualities evoke sensations of motion and resonance within the observer’s body. Methodologically, the study adopts a qualitative and phenomenologi...

The paradox of places that are beautiful but have been the background of negative events and sorrowful tragedies have intrigued artists through the ages. The author wants to reflect on his experience as a professor working on a research project in Iceland using photography and filming with drones. The setting is the beautiful south-coast of Iceland where many tragic disasters have happened in the 17th to 19th centuries when seamen drowned in open boats rowing to fish. There are famous examples of this dialectic na...

The aim of the paper is to consider the ‘modern motet style’ on the examples from contemporary Warsaw’s composers output. I explore the above features in connection with the vocal pieces by Warsaw’s 21st century composer Dariusz Przybylski. His sacral and religious music gained the renown around the world. The prestigious ensembles form Europe perform his music. Based on Polish contemporary vocal sacral music I distinguish the phenomena which I call ‘modern motet style’ (which is my own research propos...

One of the oldest manifestations of the human being is singing. Along with the evolution of civilizations, musical instruments began to appear, having diversified and developed over time. From the earliest musical performance practices in various contexts and at different moments of the human life, to the grandiose concerts, recitals and opera performances in the world's most prestigious concert halls, using the most advanced instruments and techniques, the phenomenon of music performance has followed a complex pa...

Byzantine music is today, in Romania, undergoing a profound process of rediscovery and revival, after approximately 130 years marked by political changes which, more often than not, exerted a negative influence upon the life of the Orthodox Church and its culture. This return to the psaltic chant of Byzantine tradition, in order to be fully embraced, requires a thorough understanding of the historical events and of the sinuous path which, on many occasions, endangered the very practice of this ecclesiastical music...

The reign of Alexandru Ioan Cuza (1859–1866) marked the onset of profound political, social, and ecclesiastical transformations within the Romanian Principalities, characterized by accelerated modernization and Westernization, as well as a deliberate transfer of power from Church to state. These measures will have a direct impact on Church culture, including musical culture. The early decades of the 20th century continued this process of Westernization in Romanian church music, amidst a gradual erosion of the or...

This study explores the evolution of musical improvisation and variation across European musical history, analyzing stylistic, aesthetic, and methodological dimensions from Antiquity to the 20th century. Improvisation, as an integral aspect of musical creation, has its origins in the Hellenic modal system and Pythagorean numerical theories, which influenced liturgical music in both the Eastern and Western traditions. The research examines developments during the Medieval period, including the emergence of polyphon...

The growing interest in ritual underscores the relevance of this study as a fundamental aspect of human existence in Kazakh culture, as well as its intricate relationship with the art of theatre. In this context, the unique features of ritual text reproduction through diverse artistic mediums are unveiled. These symbolic codes have effectively created a universal language system, reflecting the symbolic form of human behavior with a clear orientation: ritual – play – theatre. In this article, we aim to explore...

As a probable consequence of some Thraco-Dacian population movements in the north of today's Italy (dating back to the time of the Roman Empire, starting with the 3rd-4th centuries), a Thracian-Dacian-Roman community was established in the Alpine-Padan area, evolving towards a Romanian nucleus by the 9th century. Later, at the latest in the 12th-13th centuries, the Romanian element here was assimilated, primarily by Italians, but also by Rhaeto-Romans, Slovenes, Croats, Austrians, however, documentary, onomastic a...

This paper explores the SORS (Survey of Reading Strategies) instrument, a tool developed by Mokhtari and Sheorey [5] to assess metacognitive awareness of reading strategies among learners of English as a second or foreign language. Adapted from the MARSI instrument, SORS categorizes strategies into three groups: global, problem-solving, and support strategies. The paper outlines the development and structure of SORS, emphasizing its role in helping educators evaluate students' strategic reading behaviors and get i...

The article elaborates on a specific aspect of my PhD research by analysing the influence of metaphor on constructing meaning and communicating it in digital fashion criticism. The study employs Conceptual Metaphor Theory [1] and Multimodal Discourse Analysis [2] to systematically identify and interpret verbal and visual metaphors. The research methodology applies qualitative coding of relevant sequences of research corpus, Metaphor Identification Procedure (https://www.researchgate.net/ publication/ 42797372_MIP_...