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The article presents the mutual relations between art and technology from the Renaissance to the interactive art of today. It indicates important factors influencing the possibilities of imaging and interpreting reality by artists, ranging from the development of oil painting techniques, linear perspective, the invention of printing and photography, to achievements related to the development of information technologies (computers, interfaces), offering a range of tools to create and co-create a work of art by the ...

The paper aims to explore the potential role of contemporary art as a catalyst for social transformation and civic engagement. The research focuses on the visual arts and their power to change social attitudes in contemporary society. On the basis of theoretical, transdisciplinary approaches and analysis of artwork the paper investigates emerging forms of art and how they address pressing social issues and concerns that would otherwise remain unfamiliar. Artwork that reveals social phenomena and trends lying hidde...

Designing public spaces has become one of the most relevant issues in contemporary cities thanks to their integrating and inclusionary character. Public spaces are playing a far more important role in promoting a healthy lifestyle and encouraging us to do different activities. Therefore, contemporary public spaces should enhance creativity, stimulate physical activity and influence mental health. The methodology used in the research includes literature survey, study visits and comparative analysis of some selected...

The article discusses the role of art in the city, particularly its transformative role in merging the processes of public participation and the regeneration of public spaces. It discusses the practical aspects of citizen engagement in the artistic projects in public city space. The process of promoting social participation in creating public space and public art, involving a variety of artists and forms of expression leads to experimentation in the public sphere. This experimentation results in an improved qualit...

Glass in architecture, on the one hand, is an extraordinary, colourful detail ranging from the stained glass in Saint Chapelle to the door of the Church of the Sacred Heart in Munich. On the other hand, it is also a timeless vision of the new art connected strongly with architecture, which reflected and still reflects the avant-garde aesthetics, like the Crystal Palace. A series of prophetic visions of architects links "glass" as a synonym of progress in the technology and understanding of architectural detail as ...

Our article analyzes the stylistic characteristics of Stabat Mater in the history of music, for the last four hundred years. The Stabat Mater is a XIII th-century Catholic hymn to Virgin Mary, which portrays her suffering as Jesus Christ's mother during His crucifixion. Stabat Mater Dolorosa is considered one of the seven greatest Latin hymns of all time. The hymn is sung at the liturgy on the memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows. The Stabat Mater has been set to music by many Western composers, most famously by Palest...

The game of space was and still is a crucial aspect of visual arts. The aim of this study is to examine how the arrangement of hues, rhythms and angles of various polygons can create an impression of depth and movement on a flat surface. The so-called Penrose tiling and Ulam's spiral are mathematical models that have been applied for the painting experiment. There is a vast amount of evidence gathered over the ages that shows art is strictly interrelated with science. It refers both to music, literature, architect...

When it comes to thinking about fostering creativity in the educational context, one often focuses on the role of the teacher, the support of the principal, parents' willingness to cooperate, material availability, student motivation, and the content that needs to be presented to the students. We rarely think globally, putting the society (and its values) into the focus of the research that directly influences the (non)creation of preconditions for the promotion of creativity. The democracy of society is reflected...

Topicality. The visualization of scientific inquiry became already a specific but recognized and independent from the scientific rules - art. For medicine the visualization is still a technical tool to adjust the professional routine procedure, especially for surgery. Could we find the sense of the beauty in the case of bloody surgery invasion? If not, what is the purpose to make a video registration of the surgery invasion and to organize a competition between films in the frame of Surgery Conferences? The aim is...

Practice represents the most important aspect in a performer’s life. It is a creative process that improves musical and functional abilities that one needs in order to master music for performance. Practicing strategies that focus on meta-cognitive skills for deeper understanding and learning, like setting and monitoring goals, or developing the ability to persist in spite of the problems that may appear and also cultivating a growth mind-set (especially in young instrumentalists and singers), have been shown to r...

Art has always been and still is a mirror in which human activity is reflected. One of the basic human activities is physical activity, thanks to which humans are able to satisfy their needs, improve health and also function in society. Therefore, there are different relationships between physical activity and art. Both of them are present in the public space of cities and this aspect of connection is addressed in the article. The first research question addresses how the presence of art in public space can contri...

The study was aimed at new knowledge finding of child’s giftedness in the art-creative process. The methodology was to use the method “Art+”. It helped the teacher to notice signs of giftedness, which remain hidden in other conditions. Findings: the concept of “giftedness” has new aspects in modern art; the method “Art+" is based on the “Art-composition” teaching technology and included creative tasks, indicates the relationship of different types of giftedness. The results of the study were not exhaustive, but th...

The main aim of the paper is to examine the role of creative placemaking in shaping the urban environment in Polish cities. It also focuses on challenges and obstacles that creative placemaking projects encounter in Polish realities. Creative placemaking is a “micro-development” strategy (Johnson 2009) that focuses on cultural participation, community engagement and highlights the social role of arts and culture. Artistic interventions provide new perspectives that are not only aesthetic, but also connected with s...

The article shows the relationship between the development of information technologies, the characteristics of the information society and digital art. The broad possibilities of the digital world related to recording, storing and processing data (cyber text, big data, smart services) and the creation of virtual worlds are pointed out. The influence of the development of information technologies on the character of the works of art (their variability and availability) is also considered. On the basis of representa...

With the advancement of the Internet, the rise of the Big-data, rapid evolution of the computer science, huge progression in robotics and programming caused the development of the Artificial Intelligence, which leads it to deal with complex issues and task. Further, this technology seems to be able to generate contents as different as music, poems, paintings, movie or news scripts, jokes along with creative problem-solving. However, can machines create paintings or produce images as an art? Firstly, this paper bri...

In the paper I present the Slovak illustrator Miroslav Cipár. His artistic creation is famous and appreciated at home as well as abroad. Cipár’s works of art, thanks to their fine-art properties, go beyond home as well as beyond European fine-art traditions. In his works of art there are mixed motives from Slovak folklore art and non-European fine-art cultures, which he became acquainted with during his professional internships in several world-wide destinations. Typical features of Cipár’s fine-art expression are...

Art education has brought hope to the victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami. This study will empirically examine the process of learning through participation in a musical and the role that the musical played for the disaster victims. Through this examination, the present study will discuss the nature and significance of learning. Through interview of the disaster victims, this study will clarify the process of learning through a musical, especially how the affect and emotions of the victims chang...

What used to be a rare and eccentric narrative technique in the Golden Age of Hollywood, where a protagonist would address the viewer or implicit audience directly, is now deployed more frequently in Cinematic VR. This paper aims to investigate whether such an inherent capacity of ‘you' to target a narratee, as it accommodates a variety of you's and a variety of I's, and the combination of both to blur the boundary between the discourse of virtual reality and the story, makes the second-person narration a natural ...

In the present paper the author discuss architecture as an art and its language which is architectural drawing, the oldest and most efficient system of its representation. Although drawings such as sectional views or projections are expressed by means of unequivocal symbols that are generally understood and leave no margin for interpretation, there exists a whole sphere of more abstract notions which includes sketches as records of individual ideas that often only remain on paper but sometimes create a new reality...