The article is dedicated to the consideration of the communicative music means, their kinds in the context of historical aspect of the ways of music reproduction. The author follows the chronology of the development of communication means – from the non-writing to the electronic and mechanical. In the...

In this article the author discovers the connection between the society and music communication. He believes music communication to be an important part of social life. He studies the development of public music taste in the XXth century in Russia. Musicians` involvement into cultural life and education...

With the continuous expansion of globalization trend, the artistic forms inevitably combine each other within the worldwide scope, from which the single regional shadow play products of south Henan is separated, gradually disappearing and replaced by international design languages, artistic works and...

The crucial factor that the illustration art of Beardsley can obtain remarkable achievements is the unique characteristics of the art itself. The era of Beardsley is a complex era with contradictions, and “New and old” constantly collide. In the field of illustration art, Beardsley continuously uses...

The paper analyses the principal tenets of the method of comparative study of Literature and its evolution, applies insights into the history of cultural and literary interactions between Russian and Indian spiritual and aesthetic impulses depending on the socio-political vicissitudes in the two countries...

This article aims to give a religious and philosophical interpretation of Sergey Taneyev’s cantatas “St. John Damascene” and “On reading Psalm”. By means of united philosophical and musicological methodologies, a study of both cantatas is made that shows the connection between the composer’s ideas from...

The problem of synthesis as a principle of inter-sensitive associations is covered in the article: interaction of arts during Romanticism, Goethe's theoretical texts, his colour studies, arts articles, and where Goethe studies synthetic liaisons in works.

This paper is based on the current problems existing in the interaction design teaching. It describes the significance of interaction design studio teaching and discusses the construction of it from five aspects: the platform of school-enterprise cooperation, studio set, project team, project curriculum...

The psychological aspects of the perception and comprehension of a piece of music from the point of view of mediation of a person’s emotions in a piece of music are considered in this article.

Literati painting is distinctive in color style, containing both impressionistic lyricism and light color as well as a black and white ink spirit distinguished with a green landscape, re-color character paintings; it replaced the center position of green painting in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and became...

As an emerging female painter very popular nowadays, Huang Dan has created many ink and wash paintings that can definitely stand up to close examination and evaluation, which, to some extent, is because the figures in her painting are all gentle and elegant women. Besides, ink and wash represents the...

Nowadays, the connection between photography and digital image technologies has become closer and closer. The pictures we see daily are mostly processed with digital technologies. Therefore, people become more and more familiar with such technologies. Whenever they come across some pictures having miracle...

Today, as virtually everyone considers himself of herself a photographer, the commercial photography industry experiences a "suicide-cutthroat competition". Both large photography agencies and small photography studios have to lower their prices to survive within the industry. Such a cutthroat competition...

As one wonderful flower of farmers’ art with a rich local smell, Wuqiang New Year paintings are pure art from farmers’ bones. Their simple and unadorned modeling, stable and harmonious composition, and strong color application all condense farmers’ wisdom and aesthetic conception of thousands of years.

The work touches upon certain aspects of the literary activity by the Great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy pertaining to his acquaintance with Italy. The paper presents a very vast array of topics and, in particular, the overview of his direct contacts with Italy, including journeys, recorded personal impressions...

Artistic Charm is the aesthetic ideal of classical art. It is the spiritual home of Asians pursuing free life. It is not only ancient and modern writers and artists who adopt aesthetic standards when writing, but ancient and modern art critics when reviewing merits. Artistic charm is not only rich in...

The traditional Chinese painting is the unique art treasures of China even of the east countries, it is the treasure of Chinese ancient cultural legacy. Chinese painting takes line as the main modeling methods, and combines time with space. Flexible ink is used to show that it is artistically smooth,...

By analyzing the present condition of the teaching of Chinese painting in the art colleges, the author proposes the concept of introducing the consciousness of scholar painting into the teaching of Chinese painting. Through the detailed generalization of the concept of the consciousness of scholar painting,...

This article takes antique painting, a special theme in shanghai style, as the example, and explores the historical background and cultural meaning of this vase flower theme which looks a lot like western still life painting. It points out that the painting form of antique painting has a close relationship...

Instantaneousness is crucial to photographic works, because moments of the shot objects are changing in motion state, that is, momentary beauty is varied and rich. The moment stressed by the writer is “the decisive moment”, the most representative and wonderful moment in the development of things with...

Han Huang was the prime minister during the reign of Emperor Daizong in Tang Dynasty (726-779). Compared with his rough official experiences, his achievements in painting have always been recognized by the public. Han Huang often went to the countryside to investigate mass condition and incorporated...

So far, the Zhucheng Guqin in Shandong has a history of 200 years or so. The predecessors have made some achievements in developmental research on the Zhucheng Guqin in Shandong. In the process of development, the Zhucheng Guqin has positive significance on the inheritance of folk culture and plays an...

The spirit of unyielding characteristics advocated in Hemingway’s works and this personality characteristics of himself almost win the popularity among readers throughout the world. However, if we adore this kind of character and imitate it blindly, we will find some traps under the beautiful halo. So...

Surrealism is a literature and art school prevailing between two world wars. The inspiration and source of artistic creation mostly come from expression and symbolization of subconscious. Psychoanalytic theory of Freud is an important theoretical basis of surrealism. This paper aims at analyzing surrealism...

Inscription plays a unique and irreplaceable role in composition, which is a necessary part while expressing mood in Chinese painting. The reason for inscription playing a unique role in being able to coexist harmoniously with the painting and image in Chinese painting, is mainly due to the space commonality...

This paper mainly introduces the importance of ‘the Tao way follows nature’ in oil painting creation and interprets the implication of ‘the Tao way follows nature’ in detail. Meanwhile, the paper elaborates on how the creative thought of ‘the Tao way follows nature’ influences the oil painting creation....

This paper compared the art thoughts of two aesthetics masters--Rudolf · Arnheim and Zhu Guangqian, analyzed the connotation of “image” and the change of “image” in Chinese and Western, and drew the conclusion that there were both similarities and differences in grasping and understanding the connotation...

The western culture is overwhelmingly attractive to the economic backward nationalities. Presently the relationship between different nationalities become closer and closer, so it has realistic meaning to all the nationalities all over the world to learn correctly about the dialectical relationship between...

The poetry is an important aspect of the film creating, also an important inflection of the value of art. In the early stage of the film, the problem of the poetry had been an especially important topic among the film theorists. A great many theorists had participated in the process of exploring the...

Chinese piano music was established on the base of the national music system, including silent mode, and horizontal melody thinking etc., and thus has different performing methods and techniques with western piano music. For example, on the performing methods of fingering, key touching method and pedaling...

This dissertation aims to expand existing cinematic expression by applying musical notation , tonal systems, and the forms and structures of musical composition techniques to digital cinema. My objective is to apply the construction and techniques of music composition to the practice of digital cinema,...

To pursue genuine oriental aesthetics on digital filmmaking, my film celebrating the 125th anniversary of great Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh is scripted and produced. It was through a letter written by Vincent Van Gogh to his friend “Vincent” in Hangzhou, China on the evening Dec 23rd, 1888 - “My dear...

Shadowboxing is an excellent kind of boxing in Chinese Wushu, and is widely known in the world for its unique movement styles and features. Shadowboxing is not just a kind of sport, but also an art and even a kind of culture. Shadowboxing practicers both inside and outside China have a deeper understanding...

When human makes reflections on the result of "cultural evolution", "primitivity" as a new concept of value, is becoming a hot topic of modern people. It has been a systematic project of the grand strategy of "developing a country by culture” to discover, protect and re-value the " primitive" folk culture....

This thesis begins with the research of Cezanne’s artistic style. It breaks through the traditional works appreciation method and level to analyze Cezanne’s artistic way of thinking and combine the transition of his artistic thinking with the concrete images of pictures so that decoding the mystery of...

As an important part of the cultural systems of human mind, art develops the original spiritual values in the social evolution by variety forms. In the field of communication, the realization process of artistic value is shown as art creation, art reception as well as self-regulation basic on communication...

The popularity of square dancing in the cities of China is generated by many factors and results in many social problems such as, environmental noise, the city appearance and environmental sanitation, the competitive and exclusive ownership of public spaces. Definitely, there exist contradictory versions...

The thesis attempts to sort out and analyze Catherine’s self-alienation process based on Marx’s and Fromm’s self-alienation theory, and reveal the essence of life.

The novel “Sister Carrie”, was written by Theodore Dreiser, and the story happened in the late 19th century and early 20th, when American was in a great social transformation. From the context of the novel, the social background and the character’s personality, fate all these factors share great similarities...

Archaic phenomenon acts at all levels of modern musical culture, from musical mentality as a base of creative process in musicians and composers practice to musical communications, which characterizes various kinds of social and cultural activity. The archaic reflection in music is one of the actual...

This article focuses on the analysis of art in the post-industrial society of the information civilization, in the context of the general systems theory, the demonstration of the properties of the art as a variety of a techno-genic system belonging to automated techno-sphere, and the determination of...

This article discusses the Old Believers’ hand-drawn lubok, which is a visual polemics in matters of faith. Correlation was found between the composition of a «Pomorian Answers» and popularity among the Old Believers the lubok. This shows the continuity of the Old Believers’ lubok with modern works by...

The article is dedicated to the comprehension of the scientific works by V.V. Medushevsky, famous Russian musicologist, teacher, Doctor of Arts, Professor of Moscow P.I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory. The author shows that through his numerous works Medushevsky aspires to the implementation of the experience...

The article follows important stages of the historic process of the problem actualization and discovery of the artistic sense in music composition. Different solutions are analyzed.

This article justifies the methodological principles which consider the elements of festive communication and ritual action as the necessary conditions for the interpretation of religious architecture symbols. As an example there are represented methods of interpretation of religious architecture symbols...

The main objective of this article is an explanation of the role of sacral art in a general cultural background. The purpose is to reveal the traits defining value of sacral art in the formation of a sociocultural model of society.

This article deals with art as a specialized area of social-cultural space with its inherent special status and functional dominance. Polystylistics are considered to be the main characteristics of contemporary art in light of the modernization process. The key role of constructive art as the ability...

The article analyzes the notion of music's immanent subject, which lives in sounds, like the soul in the body, which is represented in Spiritual, Medieval and New European music. It is noble in high music, moves towards the sky and brings inspiration. This synergy vertical defines the slightest details...

This article considers a complex interconnection between social and music time; an expression of different types of this interconnection in a music composition. It is shown that the style search variety of XX-XXI centuries, multi-layering, brightness of music currents, and lack of the same stylistic...

This article is dedicated to the creative method of Mikhail Shepkin, one of the great Russian actor, the reformer of performing arts. There is a retrospective view given on this outstanding person who exerted radical influence on the process of development of Russian drama theatre in the context of modern...

The article dwells upon the aims of art criticism in the mental life of society.

The article contains a brief review of symphony orchestra forming in the XVII-XVIII centuries and considers a role of the stringed keyboard instruments in it. The changing of the functions of these instruments in the orchestra of the 19th century and some Romanticism elements of piano introduction into...

The article investigates the development of sign language and its application in teaching deaf students of the Russian State Specialized Academy of Arts.

The research offers analysis of the project exhibit "The Giants Against The Gods" that presented interpretation of the reconstructed famous Hellenic monumental sculpture of the Pergamon altar by the contemporary German art photographer and artist A. Alexander. Under review are the author’s mythopoeic...

In this article the author believes musical communication to be an important part of human life. He specifies three integral parts of this process: a composer, a performer and a music critic. He studies the music process as communication between these three parts. Connection between these parts is determined.

The article is dedicated to the problem of the theory of mass communication in music. The author specifies three major communication types and analyses communicative spheres of a composer, a musician and a performer. A triad of the main spheres is described and characterized here.

This article investigates the relationship between texture and harmony and their influence on the dramaturgic process in the Prelude by Chopin. Relevance of the article is in the study of these processes. Novelty of the article is in the attracting of the detailed analysis of the relationship between...

A brief description of the Voynich manuscript, its structure and sections, methods of determining place and date of its creation, life and oeuvre of Maxim the Greek as the presumable author of the manuscript. The article presents an attempt to determine the language of the manuscript and to interprete...

Tracing is a very common word in art field. In the foreign history of art, tracing is a main method and means to learn painting techniques, use and inherit excellent tradition for reference. The simple copying can not be called tracing. First, a copier shall know learning needs, select appropriate excellent...

As an ancient folk art form, Wu Qiang new year paintings carries people's ideology and unique folk culture in a specific historical period, which also contains a unique expression of the ancestors about time and space. Artists to express their understanding of time and space through the plants, animals,...

The tendency to use interdisciplinary methods in the reconstruction of elements of ancient musical cultures characterizes the musicological and musical approaches in Northern and Latin America and the Europe countries in the XX-th century. Scientific reconstruction’s method is based on special musical...