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The introduction of 3D audio sound systems in commercial cinemas in 2012 aimed to revolutionize multichannel sound. A large number of loudspeakers increase spatial resolution, help to position sources more precisely and enable a three-dimensional sound experience. The new technology – mainly represented by the brands Dolby Atmos and Auro-3D – raises the question whether these new sound formats amount to a merely technical upgrade or whether the expanded possibilities of sound design lead to new ways of storyte...

The “Ring” cycle by Richard Wagner marked the bicentenary of the composer in Riga, the city he used to live and work for few years between 1837-39, bringing back the Latvian capital to the Wagnerian geography with contemporary opera productions staged between 2006 and 2013. The aim of the paper is to summarize the impact of the “Ring” project to the operatic culture of Latvia, to the international career development of young Latvian artists and cultural branding of Latvia, Riga and Latvians, showing the pr...

The paper aims to highlight the main theories about catharsis, how this transformation occurs in the fine arts, some conclusions drawn from research in psychology that answer the question: what are the conditions under which the sublimation of aggression occurs (catharsis), and when this do not occur - in some cases there is a reverse effect - in fact, increase aggressiveness. The problem could be resolved by the psychologists rather than by aestheticians as follows: Under what circumstances and to what extent, th...

This article focuses on the cryptographic traits in Western avant-garde music, as well as in contemporary music in Latvia and its neighbouring countries. The contemporary cryptic trend in music differs from ancient cryptography as follows: unlike ancient cryptography, contemporary music has a double function, its code locks and unlocks the secret signs, and unlike creators of ancient crypts, contemporary composers are highly creative when inventing new code systems while avoiding, as much as possible, the traditio...

The use of ochres and pigments, derived from vegetable and mineral world, to color parts or sometimes completely the skin of the body, is a practice still in use in many populations and ethnic groups of our planet. Anthropological research carried out on the oldest languages of the world has shown that in terminology there are names only for light and darkness, so for white and black. The third color that appears is red, which sums up the shades of pink, purple, purple and orange, and is psychologically linked dir...

Without being exhaustive the study aims to theoretically investigate a few aspects of communication concept inherent to the use of music in Music Therapy. The meanings of the term and the modalities in which communication finds itself in todayВ’s different types of music therapy are explored in a reflective manner. Active and receptive forms of music therapy like Orff Music Therapy, Improvisational Music Therapy, Creative Music Therapy, Guided Imagery and Music but also archaic forms like Shamanism or Romanian Dis...

The goal of this study is to determine the effectiveness of different erasers in performing dry cleaning on unvarnished monochrome samples (painted with acrylics, oils, alkyd oils and gouache). These samples are representative of the problem with modern monochrome works lacking any protective film that might prevent dirt from entering the paint surface--they require careful cleaning procedures taking into consideration the painting materials used, which in many cases are sensitive to certain solvents. For this rea...

This paper presents selected examples of interaction between East orthodox icon and West gothic architecture built after World War II period in Poland. It shows the process of evolution of traditional iconography conventions. It covers problems in art as well as new essential ideological aspects of symbolical and liturgical nature.

“Stylistic synchronism” and “aesthetic analogy” are two of the most spectacular phenomena in the dynamics of the present-day artistic world which may acquire special (and even paradoxical!) connotations when they manifest “spontaneously” – i.e. involving no deliberative/predetermined factors. In this context, non-intentionality and, respectively, the absence of any individual attempt to relate to an antecedent (alternative) reference enhances the importance of identifying the stylistic and language v...

The portrait depicts the Romanian musician Cristian Misievici as an innovative, sensitive and intelligent composer as can be seen from his first works, the freshness of the techniques used serving the expression. Concerned with the sonorous time and space, the composer juggles with numerological symbolism and with the capacity of modal structures for metamorphosis. This is reflected in the use of proportions, symmetries and other laws of mathematical origin. The technicality of his language easily succeeds in avoi...

Since Prehistory, artistic representations have gained a key place in the understanding of everyday life, but in recent times there have been changes that affect, among others, to their original religious, social, political or educational functions. The main goal of this paper is to identify the most important and recent discourses of art following the hypothesis that there is a certain degree of dissociation between the functions of today art compared to those of its past based on its new forms of socialization w...

In 2004, Peter Goldie accentuated a common feature of certain contemporary artworks and social psychology experiments: the „deception” of viewers and, respectively, of participants in the experiment. Peter Goldie uses the term „deception” for the strategy of social psychologists, because the entire experiment is based on a hoax (in Milgram’s experiment on obedience, for example). The participants fallaciously believe until the end of the event that they are taking part in a general knowledge test, playing b...

A subject of this article is a museum-visitor interaction that uses modern type of communication based on information technology. We have a great chance to implement a concept of the Internet of Things in museums and other buildings due to Bluetooth Low Energy technology. The Internet of Things presents a major opportunity for a large number of user applications that promise to improve interest to exhibitions and provides extra knowledge about museum objects and a digital extension into the physical world. The art...

The article studies the educational potential of filmtext as a source of ethnocultural information and means of intercultural dialogue. At present, the implementation of cultural dialogue often takes place in the space of one of the key phenomena of contemporary culture - the cinematic space. We approach the study by analyzing the filmtexts of two feature films that represent two forms of broadcast of cultural information within the screen: historical (Cranes over Ilmen by Nikita Arzhakov) and cultural (Ofelas by ...

Based on the analysis of the musical works this article deals with the peculiarities of the art of modern composers of the Republic of Tatarstan (Anatoly Luppov, Rashid Kalimullin, Leonid Lyubovsky), originally refracting the traditional musical material belonging to the radical ethnoses of the Volga region (the Slavic, Finno-Ugric and Turkic people). It is revealed that composers create highly artistic samples of symphonic, stage, chamber-instrumental, vocal and choral music on the basis of artistic-figurative, g...

The Expressionism, a modern artistic and literary movement emerged at the beginning of the 20th century in Germany, is characterized by a strong tendency to express inner feelings sometimes irrational, through tension, drama, subjectivity. In this paper, we approach the issue of the lyric expressionist theater, here represented by Erwartung monodrama of the Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg, presenting it both from the point of view of the diversity of means of accomplishment, as well as of the stylistic and exp...

By the total work of art (gesamtkunstwerk) Wagner brings the myth back into focus by illud tempus hoping that in doing so he will re-sacralise the present time and space. Within the framework of the myths he approaches, the present paper deals with the feminine characters whose role is decisive in the unfolding of the Wagnerian drama. Every female character fits a conventional typologies, the present study bringing into question more than twenty such characters. Far from proposing a rigid typology, this analysis o...

This paper is part of an ongoing doctoral study that looks into the approaches employed by gallery educators at Balai Seni Visual Negara (BSVN) in conducting their educational programmes to a number of special education teachers from a school that specialises in special education. As such, the three primary aspects that function as the focus of the study are: i) perceptions of gallery educators upon the expectations of the school principal, the teachers, and the parents; ii) the organization of the programme in BS...

The ecological functions of music play a very important role in the reception-aesthetics of music. From the perspective of the listener, reception aesthetics differentiates the so-called external and internal ecology of music. External ecology is understood as environmental and somatic aspects of listening to music. The categories of auditive environment and auditive culture, which have a mirror relationship to music culture, derive from external ecology of music. Internal ecology of music is a specific category w...

This paper presents the problem of performing some of the Chopin's Etudes op.10, keeping in mind the basic principles of pianistic interpretation. There are different aspects of interpretative parameters such as form, tempo, rhythm, sonority, phrasing, fingering, which taken together lead to a qualitative interpretation of any musical piece. The purpose of this article is not to offer an exhaustive writing on how to perform Chopin's Etudes op.10, but to present how to make use of those factors in order to achieve ...

In the article, modern Siberian art is considered in terms of reflecting the concepts and styles of Russian post avant-garde, which covers all the artistic trends of the second half of the XX c. In the political and economic conditions of the second half of the XX c. the art in Russia was divided into “formal” and “informal”, which consequently caused developing and reflection the idea of the artistic and cultural protest in the artworks of the representatives of the “informal” art. The author’s task ...

Poland, as cultural and religious borderlands which are now, as in the past, a part of Latin, West Roman-Catholic, Greek-Slavic and East Orthodox culture, is a good place to apply comparative analyses of art of both Christian Churches: the Eastern and Western one. This paper presents selected examples of interaction between architecture, iconography and theology in contemporary sacred art of the last decade in Poland. It also shows the process of evolution of traditional spatial and functional structures and appli...

The modern big city is a space of visual signs. The key role is played by architecture, which, on the one hand, functions as reference points and guiding volumes, on the other hand, is able to influence the outlook and the state of the people passing by. In this connection, the question of how to identify the potential of architectural monuments as visual texts is important. The work is based on the method of philosophical and artistic analysis of works of architecture as a space of interaction of the viewer and t...

The inquiry we propose starts from the premise that classical music composers approached the texts of the psalms written almost 3 millennia ago and they rediscovered their meanings in spite of the social, territorial, linguistic, and religious changes which took place throughout history. Analyzing the musical scores of those who appealed to the text of Psalm 150, the aim of our research is to observe the multiple ways in which the psalm is musically represented in the history of music. Despite the different musica...

The paper discusses one of the most interesting historical landmarks in the development of Slovak Music Aesthetics – that of Socialist Realism. The period of constructive effort (normative aesthetics) followed by the normalization period, paradoxically quite indifferent in the attitude to the “scientific” exploring of aesthetics through the application of Marxist philosophy, make the focus of the study. The aesthetics of Socialist Realism (normative aesthetics) and movements in music culture in the second ha...

The article deals with the phenomenon of staginess in choral performance as an artistic device of enlivening academic music and stage performance. The authorsВ’ research attitude is based on the interpretation of staginess as an effective device of enhancing communicative character of music, which manifests itself in the choral arts through the union of music and words, in which words are the script of a composition. The research was carried out on the basis of the following methods: cultural and historical method...

It is essential to know how color choices influence people, the idea that there is one unique psychological reaction to certain colors being incorrect. Many of the reactions that color psychologists attribute to certain colors are based on personal experience. It is also interesting to note that many cultures have associations of colors with completely different interpretations. Therefore, we will explore some general associations that most people in Western cultures have as a response to certain colors. Although ...

This article is devoted to the study of the concept “Siberia” and its specifics of visualization in paintings on the example of the contemporary Krasnoyarsk artist Anton Dovnar. Of particular interest is the fact that the authors propose to consider the concept of “Siberia” not on the verbal, but rather on the visual level. The relevance of the study is in determining the additional possibilities of forming a regional identity, in expanding the characteristics and content of the concept “Siberia” owing...

This study focuses on the birth of the various methodologies concerning the conservation of Street Art. Due to the current commercial success of this artistic movement people have begun to ask how best to conserve the many contemporary artworks painted on walls. Street artists make use of different surfaces when creating their works: canvases, paper posters, stickers and billboards. For the preservation of all works painted on walls the course of action generally taken is to exhibit them in museums. The Smithsonia...

It is a well-known fact that schenkerian principles of analysis and musical thinking open comprehensions of the musical works that are not reachable by using other methods of analysis. Breaking a piece down into manageable fragments and identifying strategies for sight reading, learning and memorizing are steps that have to be identified and completed that could be possibly leading to the development of the brain functions that are essential to instrument playing but also for the cognitive control of behavior. The...

This paper presents the results of a research project seeking to assess how the several possibilities of a social psychology subject – the social representation of the subject – might contribute to the study of conservation and restoration, as well as to further analyse the relationships between the subjects involved in producing, promoting and preserving contemporary art: the artist, the public and the conservator-restorer. The study is part of a research project granted by the Spanish Ministry of Economics a...

In this contribution, sub outcomes of an empirical study dealing with the art teachers in primary education are presented. The aim of the research was to ensure teachers’ relationship between the curriculum of art education and educational reality. This research was conducted in two countries – the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic. The relationship between the teacher and the educational reality was established through questionnaire, addressed to teachers. We presented the research data verbally, using frequ...

The fundamental raison d'être in the production of immersive technologies is the attainment of an absolute psychosomatic and physical embodiment, which Chris Milk, the founder of WITHIN application and a touted master per excellence in 360° video production, provides through his global digital platform where a sense “as if being there” is played out by many world’s VR creators. The hitch, however, for films shot in 360° space, is that their current narrative system as well as their visual configuration opp...

Even now, 2,000 years after his disappearance, the Latin poet Ovidius Publius Naso continues to remain one of the most appreciated writers of verses that belong to the ancient Roman period. Considered to be one of the most influential sources of inspiration in European culture, Ovid's work and especially Metamorphoses stimulated the imagination of some of the greatest creators of universal culture in various artistic fields such as poetry, literature, visual arts, or music. In 1951, composer Benjamin Britten made ...

The research we propose starts from the premise that the classical music composers of the 20th century turned to religious texts written almost 3 millennia ago, and they rediscovered their essences in spite of the social, territorial, linguistic, and religious changes that took place throughout history. Despite the different musical composition techniques used or the origin of the composers, the subject of DavidВ’s Psalms is embodied in the work of some of the most prolific creators of the last century (Arnold Sch...

My paper and instrumental theater piece explore the ways in which the binary norms of performance can be effectively questioned and replaced with an exercise of reflection on alternatives to normed approaches to performance.With De(s)Figuration, I propose to create a performance environment in which messages are no longer conveyed via traditional structures to traditional audiences. Instead, a community is created which engages in a social, rather than purely artistic, performance. The relationship between the per...

The Rose was the first purpose-built theatre on London Bankside. The playhouse was erected in 1587 as a theatre of Philip Henslowe. At the end of the XVI century, the Lord Admiral's Men moved to the Rose playhouse and performed there, attracting audiences, becoming popular and eventually prosperous. RoseВ’s repertory included plays of Marlowe, and Shakespeare. The RoseВ’s success encouraged other theatres to be built on Bankside; these new theatres overtook the Rose, which had been abandoned by 1606. The Globe bec...

The sculpture-environment has developed since the 1970В’s, and it in France particularly represents an artistic planning of territory that directs our attention to the relationship between people and their surroundings. A mesological point of view could be found in the way of planning oriented by interpreting the environment. And this interpretation refers to the mediance, a concept defined by Augustin Berque as a dynamic coupling of being and its milieu. Due to the eco-techno-symbolic perspectives, the concept op...

The motif Dies Iraeis one of the most recognisable themes in music. Marked by its significant meaning, the musical quotation plays a symbolic role in a number of works of music. It became extremely popular with composers of the Romantic era (Berlioz, Liszt, Saint-SaГ«ns) and later times (Honegger, Crumb). Some composers kept returning to it, sometimes nearly obsessively, in many of their works (Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Rachmaninoff). The sequence enjoys a major position in their music, as if it carried the load ...

The Vakhtangov State Academic Theatre of Russia is one of the most known repertory drama theatres not only in Moscow and Russia but also in many countries of Europe, Asia and America. The creative life of the Vakhtangov theatre is rooted in the historical Russian culture, and at the same time it sets its gaze on the future. Just like Konstantin Stanislavsky, the world-known establisher of the Method, Evgeny Vakhtangov believed that the actor is the crucial element of any theatre performance. He also trusted that t...

The synthesis between the national folk tradition and the European musical tradition was performed in the Romanian culture with the contribution of great creative personalities. This synthesis is carried out differently from one culture to another, from one composer to another, either by following traditions or by consolidating the original and relevant language, which resulted in the shaping up of the national musical folklore cultures of the XXth century. Three piano parts op. 18 composed in 1933 by composer Mih...

The things of daily use and matters in contemporary art have been part of the creative process of numerous artists and the artworks themselves. The relationship between objects, matters, and creativity is multidimensional and has given rise to some of the most suggestive and fascinating artistic proposals of the last decades. In this article, we analyze the different dimensions and meanings that the objects and matters have acquired in the undertaking of artists. We will trace two major courses in what concerns th...

Two – thousandth years of history of Christianity proved that a main criterion of a value of church architecture was not based on architectural precursors. This architecture was sacred because it was a carrier of a „truth of God” and – like a liturgical mysterion and iconography art – it was a theological comment. It was a codified language of the transposes of religions essences and orders, into the form of architectural expression. This was in an East Christianity and this happens there up to this day. ...

Although RPAS offer great advantages and creative possibilities, its use by the Creative Industries is still rare and focused on outdoor filming and photography. Until now, RPAS have been primarily designed for outdoor use by different end-users, in fields such as inspections, agriculture, real estate, security, etc. However, since existing RPAS lacks a precise, robust and affordable indoor positioning system as well as advanced safety features, the control of any RPAS in indoor environments is particularly diffic...

“The typology of the classical sonata reflects, with distinct intensity, the great theme of the classical age: the art of leading musical ideas.” [1] After Beethoven, the sonata became an ideal of the composing conception, that could only be accessed by the creators following the “pure” music. Romanticism represented, on a certain level, a regression of rigorous structural organizational efforts in instrumental music, this decline being due to the views of romantic composers upon the tonal system, the rela...

Scholars have lately displaying constantly growing interest in the role of the woman in music and in the specificity of women music making. These subjects are considered both in broad terms and as concrete phenomena. It seems to be expedient to try to combine the above subjects and by the example of a particular phenomenon – the Vietnamese female ca tru singing to trace some typological community with other traditions of female music making in countries of the Far East and partly South East Asia. Generally, thre...