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This paper focuses on haiga painting—a Japanese art which unifies painting, poetry and calligraphy on the same surface—and the influence that it had on some of the Western artists in their creations at the end of the 20th century and at the beginning of the 21st century. Haiga painting was created together with the haiku poetry in Japan during the 17th century. The paper is divided into two parts. The first part consists in presenting the appearance of the haiga painting in Japan, its aesthetics, and its evolu...

During the second semester of 2013-2014, as an associate professor at the Arts Faculty from the Ovidius University in Constantza, I proposed a research project to the masters' degree students in Visual Arts, focussing on the relationship between earth and water in different versions: Waterfall, River, Coast of the Sea, Coast of the Lake, and the Danube Delta. From the beginning, I told the students that this research project had to be completed by an exhibition at one of the art galleries in Constantza—including...

If art and science inspire each other, bringing them together is a real challenge that pushes back the boundaries of knowledge. This paper describes a current project from the artistic motivation to the technical skills it requires and especially how one can contribute to the other. Through our connection to new technologies and even reality, we develop a piece that involves a new vision on different research areas while grouping them together, as in image synthesis, massively parallel programming, artificial life...

The goal of the research is the content, style and specificity of historic monumental paintings in Orthodox churches in Vyatka (now the Kirov region) in Russia. Nowadays many of the villages with the churches are abandoned as people moved to the cities. The wall paintings are on the edge of disappearing both physically and from the realm of academic study. Therefore a significant part of cultural heritage of the region is at stake. Since 1989, we have conducted inspection of more than 150 churches, the monumental ...

This article is dedicated to the comprehensive study of virtuosic concert piano pieces of Dikran Tchouhadjian (1837-1898): Armenian classical musician, a genius composer, the founder of Armenian musical theatre, a gifted pianist, a talented conductor, a skillful pedagogue and an active musical and public figure, who lived and worked in Constantinople in the 19th century. We used traditional methods of research, such as study of archives, empiric and theoretical analysis of the pieces. In this article an attempt is...

Every musical style can be characterized by means of probabilistic restrictions imposed upon structures as well as mutual relations between those structures and the mental representation of musical surfaces formed on their basis by listeners. In music, narratives generally result from a culturally embedded musical language that has been established over the course of centuries. There seem to be two factors that contributed to specific way that Xenakis understood music – the free play of the imagination directly ...

Our current research involves determining effort dynamics on a couple of performance dancers (dancesport - standard dances), in the pre-competitive stages for two successive competitions: Romanian National DanceSport Championship, held in Iasi, on the 1st and 2nd of March, 2014 The WDSF DanceMasters International DanceSport competition, held in Bucharest, on the 29th and 30th of March, 2014. The athletes used in our study are registered members of the Katamis DanceSport Club in Craiova, Romania – official member...

The avant-garde movements of the 20th century have emphasized the experiments in artistic creation, building on the experience of abstract movements in visual arts. They introduced new elements such as body movement, materials and unconventional sceneries. All of these have led, later on, to performance art and new media. The artistic experiments of the last century focus more and more on the subjective experience of the artist during the artistic process. Using the new technologies and visual media, the artist is...

The oldest drama theater of Russia, A.S.Pushkin Russian State Academic Theater (Alexandrinsky Theater) is the leader in new media and internet technologies amid the Russian theaters. Over the last years, the New Stage was founded at Alexandrinsky Theater by the young stage directors, to serve as an experimental space for implementing their innovative creative ideas. The New Stage is a high-tech performing-cum-educational facility. The challenges faced by the New Stage cast, as well as the hi-tech nature of most sh...

The stage construction of a role could be influenced by the borderline situation of a show, staged with a particular expressivity. The creation process of the stage play demonstrates the ability of the actor to transform and transpose himself in the role considering the borderline situations of the dramatic text. The performer could express the dramatic dimension of his text and the impact on the receiver even since the first rehearsals. One unique, obsessive question keeps standing though: how do I play? At the f...

The science of aesthetic joy The human body is certainly one piece of classic engineering designed to enable positive physical, emotional and above all spiritual enhancement. It is well upon the individual to understand, utilize and then usher in great sense of fulfillment. The Supreme has gifted us this wonderful Yantra or our body. In dance, one delves deep into the macrocosm and into the micro orbits of forces. The physical entity, the body form is never negated but it rather used as a VДЃhana or a vehicle that...

This article analyses the phenomenon of the virtual museum as one of the key features of post-postmodernism. It describes the way modern science masters virtual reality. The article gives classification of the virtual museums and indicates specific features. In details it tells about the creation of virtual museum. In 2014 The Chair of Engineering Graphics of ITMO University, the Center of Design and Multimedia of ITMO University together with the Prosecutor's Office of Novgorod region created a project Virtual Mu...

Viorel Munteanu, the author of the Glossa Symphony, is a multilateral artistic personality and composer of archaic origin. This article depicts the composer for whom the interpretation of folkloric or byzantine sources, that he often draws on his creation, is accomplished through the light of a well understood contemporary conception, carefully approached and minutely polished. Skilful in handling concrete time and space, either nostalgic, concerned and lyrical or expansive and playful or tense and dramatic, the c...

The main objective of this paper was to investigate and evaluate the factors which determined the winning of Eurovision 2014 contest by the cultural marketing campaign of Austria. Due to its huge stake, with immense financial gains and international consecration for the winner, the festival has become a true battle of national marketing campaigns. In the attempt to explain the social and political implication of the brave Austrian marketing campaign, I used the statistics that I found illustrative, overlapping the...

The article is a study of interdisciplinary cooperation of IT and multimedia experts from the University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (UITMO), and the New Stage of Alexandrinsky Theater. The cooperation resulted in several theatre projects that involve multimedia and internet technologies, in designing the prototype of a system for multi-stream online broadcasting of shows, with the option of interactive involvement of the online audience and switching between the streams; several long-term go...

The paper focuses on the fundamental manners of working with graphic notation within the Different Hearing music-creative programme, which has developed in the Czech Republic the method of classroom composing. It deals with the creation and performance of graphic notations and, on the basis of analysing 35 scores and the experience gained within the Different Hearing programme, describes specific approaches to and strategies of their creation within the context of current research.

The personal synthesis between national and universal that Enescu has performed throughout his compositional career is foreshadowed since the time when writing the Octet op. 7, one of the composer's youth works, that reveals a number of trends and personal marks of the style he gained in subsequent creation. With the new perspective upon polyphony, offered by the multitude of the processes outlined in the twentieth century, the Octet op. 7 by George Enescu offers a personal view upon multivocality, seen from a set...

If we talk about great musicians, usually men's names are remembered, not women. Only musicologists can name some musician-women, who have got be successful performers in the world stage. In common view men are thought to be as creators and women – executors of something men intended. Question of duality of artistic interpretation in music performing art is considered in gender categories of logic, ratio, emotion and sensitive. Analysis of critical articles devoted to musicians' performing art reveals prejudice ...

In recent years the international community has begun to focus on the dangerous state of conservation of Buddhist heritage in the SwДЃt Valley (Pakistan). Not only are these religious complexes abandoned and decaying, they are also subject to attacks and destruction. However local populations and the international community both appear disinterested in this issue. The scope of this research is to contribute to the archaeological history of SwДЃt and the architecture of GandhДЃra. The study, involving a survey and ...

Space does not occur only as a physical structure, also occurs with human activity, such as the occurrence of public spaces. They find meaning with human activities beside their definition by boundaries and design. The emergence of public spaces by human activity also helps to reach to a level of political human identity from the level of being human. In this study, spatial footprints of this mutual existence are read through social movements. Urban spaces are not considered only with their physical features but a...

The concept of sustainable development is based on the development of appropriate relations between the economic growth and the care for the environment and human health. Implementation of a sustainable construction investment, a housing investment included, should principally provide its investors with benefits, but at the same time it should minimise the burden for the environment and the negative impact upon the society. In Poland already as early as in 1990 a document State Ecological Policy was drawn up. It c...

Demographic change and economic decline modify the patterns of urban land use. Shrinking cities are the subject of intense international debate and numerous academic and government studies. However, neither thorough scholarly understanding of the urban shrinkage phenomenon nor proven urban strategies for its mitigation have been achieved. Characterized by the incipient stages of urban sprawl in a context of acute population loss, the un-sustainability of Romanian urban development is unequivocal. Social and econom...

The power of capitalist demands from architects necessitates reconsidering the social role of architecture especially in the curricula of architectural design studios. Contrary to the conception that inflexible demands limit student creativity, this study aims to question whether these limitations are opportunities for students to discover the function of architectural solutions for a social purpose in individual, communal and urban scales. The research was conducted for the 2014 Spring Semester's experience in a ...

Contemporary building materials manufacturers compete with each other in searching for a new concrete mixtures to increase the attractiveness of this material at all levels. Success can be seen in terms of life span of the products, appearance and structural strength. In the past few years, concrete has also gained a reputation as one of the most environment friendly building materials. It is difficult to decide how much of this is due to efficient marketing efforts of the manufacturers but there is no doubt, that...

The latter third of the 19th Century was the golden age of balneotherapy on the Iberian Peninsula. Sea or wave baths along the Spanish coastline, which have now disappeared and are unknown in the current architectural panorama, are captured on a plethora of postcards and advertising posters that used photography, which was fully developed throughout Spain, as a means of promoting the culture of bathing. Through photography we are now able to see what these absent structures looked like, and to understand the esthe...

Understanding the genesis of urban landscape defined by fields/urban matrix, lines and points in time continuum is crucial as a pre-method for composing new structures concerning their position, form and purpose. Ston urban landscape has been formed spontaneously and by planning throughout a long period of time. It developed into an organised whole of landscape and its structures. That harmonious unity is in constant change. Such time-spatial dynamics ought to be accepted as a precondition for contemporary design,...

This study looks at the ways how spatial identity of neighbourhoods is formed and considers implications that may be stated for policies seeking the ways to improve and enhance their development in future. The area of Bolderaa neighbourhood in Riga, Latvia, is a typical historical neighbourhood of Riga, having gathered evidence from various phases of evolution of urban structure and urban design. Through the investigation of Bolderaa the study examines the results of changing urban shape, pattern and scale by time.

The continuous and accelerated change of the contemporary society leads to an uncertainty regarding the needs and aspirations of tomorrow. Under what parameters could we build for tomorrow if today's needs are already evolving? How many resources could we direct to the fulfilling of ever changing necessities? We imagine adaptable forms capable to better respond to the uncertainties of the future. The consequences of this phenomenon are both the over exhaustion of the human capacity to adapt and the elimination of ...

The Diocletian's mausoleum was built at the beginning of the 4th century and was later turned into Split's cathedral in the 7th century. Due to its importance, it is not a surprise that the cathedral is an architecturally influential building. There are several churches near Split that contain the central octagonal element in their spatial composition and the church of Saint Clement in Sitno Gornje is the oldest one, still standing. The researchers have often emphasized the influence of the Diocletian's mausoleum,...

Under increasing pressure for change in the land use patterns within city's floodplains, there is a need of protecting or reconnecting fragmented ecological corridors along the riversides. Combining leisure and recreational activities with urban agriculture and flood protection, seems to be the most sensible thing to do in order to ensure efficient use of ecosystem services. In practice, this often leads to formation of mosaic landscape pattern, where a patchwork-like parcels have an integrating function. The arti...

Every day, in hospitals around the world, thousands of people spend hours, days, months for investigations, diagnosis or treatment, in search of healing. For patients and their families, the experience of the time spent in the hospital is often a crucial episode of their lives, whether their child was born there, whether it was the place where the life of a family member or loved one has been saved or a bout of illness was cured or treated there. The hospital often represents a milestone in people's lives, a landm...

In the present-day context, the collective housing represents a generalized urban phenomenon, a largely spread residential typology, which shapes the contemporary city both physically, as well as from the social-cultural point of view. Therefore, the matter of life quality for the communities residing the collective housing neighborhoods becomes significant, from the perspective of the factors which influence this aspect, as well as of the urban strategies implementable in order to improve the existing circumstanc...

Architectural heritage restoration assumes a key role to achieve urban sustainable development due to the advantages it ensures in terms of limited soil consumption, energy efficiency, increased urban quality and community well-being. In territories where welfare reaches satisfactory levels, the ratio between qualitative and quantitative needs tends to increase progressively; this phenomenon involves all production sectors, including that of architectural design which is urged to introduce appropriate quality obje...

As every living thing, cities change within years. It can be said changing is the nature of the city. In Europe, transformation of the city began to get different meanings after the Industrial Revolution. Because with the Industrial Revolution more and more people began to migrate to cities but cities didn't have enough substructure to take people in. They had to meet the requirements so they began to transform. This situation, which happened in Europe in 19th and beginning of the 20th century, began to be seen in...

The modern concept of restoration as a result of a long historical process was shaped in the eighteenth century, when the evolving modern conservation principles found their first concrete expressions. Regarding this, investigating the relationship between the definition of the restoration gave by the lexicography, by the architects and by the antiquaries, and comparing it with the results of the concrete work constitutes a solid base to know in depth the process that led to the concept of restoration in its moder...

The article explores possibility of providing a high quality architectural space and profitability of investment in the context of increasing requirements for energy efficiency of buildings. For this purpose legal requirements relating energy efficiency of buildings are analyzed (EU directives, the local law, ecological certification LEED, BREEAM) and their influence on architecture through evaluation of existing energy-efficient facilities built on a different scale. Continuously increasing requirements concernin...

Experimentally investigated strength and stiffness at uniaxial compression of wood-cement composite as a orthotropic material. The diagrams "Force (N) - Deformation (mm)" were obtained with using test machine SHIMADZU AG300kNX in Mechanical Laboratory. prof. N.A. Belelyubskiy [http://mech-lab.ru/history.php]. Samples in the form of a cube with an edge of 10 cm in 28 days of age were tested. Components of material: sawdust, Portland cement, sodium silicate, calcium chloride, polypropylene fiber (segments of 18 mm l...

This study focuses on design process of “living space” through house and dwelling projects in Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul. By taking the “dwelling” unit as a tool for training, students practice different approaches to “living space” in many architecture schools. How the student's perception of living space and their approach to the dwelling design change during architectural education is the subject of this paper. The methodology of this study was based on selected examples of compulsor...

Previous studies have identified a strong preference for finishes that provide a surface perceived comparably close to that of wood in its natural state. This study focuses on establishing if physical characteristics of wood grain can affect the choice of a finish, regardless of the initial preference. Experienced examiners carry out the analysis, while the influence of their individual cultural background is taken into consideration in analyzing the results. The subjects are presented with a selection of samples ...

This article is focused on the role of architectural design in metropolitan spatial structures. Iconic architecture located at the nodes of the metropolitan urban network strengthen the quality of its public spaces and crystallize some of them into polycentric sub-centers of the metropolitan structure. The article proposes a matrix of relations between problems and their scales as a tool for analytical research, which focuses on the metropolitan structure of Krakow. These relations can be used to help explain the ...

This article focuses on how children play, their behavior while playing and how we can create enjoyable and functional play areas in cities. Children can play anywhere. Important thing is to make play times beneficial for children both physically and mentally. In play environments children are always interested in natural elements such as sand, trees and water because of their play qualities and their power to enable the creation of new games. Because of that reason governments try to increase natural recreation a...

The study of water landscapes involves a number of ways and methods. It has become especially important nowadays when the latest technologies and ideas on shaping water can be applied to create water parks' interiors. Water has been a key potential in the development of water parks. The article illustrates possibilities of formal solutions with the use of water in various forms, leaving it open for further research in this topic. By analysing the internal landscape of contemporary in situ water parks, the author s...

Study offers an attempt to a systematic approach to the problematic of current and potential impact of regionalization and regionalism on contemporary international relations. Estimation of the results of last European Parliament elections suggests that a large proportion of its new members would be selected from among the opponents of European integration. This is certainly unpleasant consideration since most of the critics of integration have been in the previous period from outside of the European Union institu...

This paper analyzes the relationship between political changes and the press in the years of 1989 and 1990, which will be illustrated with an analysis of local newspapers published in the town of Zadar, Croatia. The paper is based on the analysis of articles on political changes published in local Croatian newspapers Narodni list and Fokus. The period analyzed here covers the time when monthly publication of Fokus was published, i.e. from February 8, 1989 to September 22, 1990. The period, among other things, was ...

The article, written on the basis of the results of participant observation, analysis of documents of Muslim educational institutions, publications of the Muslim organizations of the post-Soviet Tatarstan, periodicals, secondary research, describes the development of the modern system of Muslim education in Tatarstan through the prism of use of its capacities in countering the spread of the ideas of radical movements. The author analyzes the structure of the religious (Islamic) education in the region. There is al...

Parliamentary life as a dominant pattern of expression of representative democracy,is often characterized by parliamentary political crisis. Democracy does not represent a perfect system of values and a system of desires and dealism of people. Democracy primarily represents a permanently developing process, which is characterized by constant conflict of interests in attempts to influence political policy and lining of the political and democratic life actors. This political conflict is best expressed in parliament...

The paper devotes to the problem of equal integration of the States of Sub-Saharan Africa into the global informational and communicational space. Author argues that during of the postcolonial history the governments of Africans countries tried to reduce the dependence from well-developed nations. But their desire to become a part of global informational and communicational space actually encourages the increase of the dependence but not the reduction of it.

The process of NATO enlargement received rather strong and exhausting criticism both in the academic and political sphere. However, only very few of the dire predictions about the negative impact of NATO enlargement have come true. No new dividing lines have been drawn in Europe. The new NATO members have always supported the NATO open door policy and have tried to help further NATO candidate states to get ready for the NATO enlargement. The deterioration of the NATO ability to provide collective defence has been ...

The paper reflects some of the recent researches and observations of the author about the new trends in the transformation of the political spectrum. The traditional political families underestimated the appearance of The Greens in the mid 70's and 80's. Now the green ideology is well known to the public and the green followers especially in Europe represent a formidable power. Till 2006 The Greens were a lonely riders on the political arena as a nontraditional actor, but with the existence of The Pirates that is ...

Since the end of the Cold War, NATO has been going through a permanent adaptation process that has changed NATO beyond recognition. Many scholars and politicians reached the conclusion that NATO had become an organization more similar to a collective security organization than a traditional military alliance. Although the changes in NATO were very fundamental, they do not justify such a radical conclusion. NATO is further focused on dealing with security threats coming from areas outside the territory of its membe...