Mr. Feng Zikai is a famous painter born in the late 19th century and is active in the 20th century in China. He is an artist who masters six arts and is good at writing and painting. During his whole life, he has met several excellent teachers. With the encouragement of the teachers, he firmly believed...

Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) is the use of a sequencer and some composition software for music production. It is a basic communication protocol between music devices and conforms to the international industry standard. MIDI is a combination of electronic technology and music. After more...

The presented article deals with ideological and stylistic interrelations of Weimar art of the early 1920s with Italian metaphysical painting. The author examines in details the texts and manifestos of Italian and German artists, revealing the general theoretical views on the art of both sides. The author...

Symbolic practices in the history of art and in the general history of culture refer to a common cultural symbolism, its processing and multiplication. Another significant meaning-generating principle, which is fundamentally unreflected by man and can be called "pre-verbatim", is located before, between,...

Ernest Hemingway was born in Chicago in 1899. He is an American writer and reporter who was considered one of the most well-known novelists of the twentieth century. Many films have made use of the famous novel — "The Old Man and the Sea", which have attracted increasing number of people to see. The...

The article deals with various ways of rendering the concept of interpretation. The meaning of the term varies from science to humanities. The authors consider the interpretation phenomenon in the context of music art history where interpretation is an integral part of musical performance.

Theatrical performances, which emerged in the country after the Revolution of 1917 with the audience of tens of thousands of spectators, were an emblematic phenomenon of social and artistic way of life. The art of theatrical performances burst on the streets and squares, subjugating Petrograd historical...

During the period of Emperor Qianlong and Emperor Jiaqing of Qing Dynasty, the influx of a large number of border ministers, garrison persons, and men of writing and literature brought cultural exchanges to the Western Regions of Xinjiang. Due to political affairs and identity, literati and scholars...

The paper deals with the realization of memorial music phenomenon in the music by Siberian composers. "Music of memory" concept is an important thematic area in the creative activities of contemporary Russian composers. The phenomenon is connected with the idea to memorialize. Compositions might have...

Bestowed with unique geological location, Taiwan province has typical oceanic resources with regional characteristics. Since the per-historic times, Taiwan people's life was closely related to sea and oceans with their own features. From the ancient times, the Stone Age to the Han Dynasty, the land culture...

The education system in architecture will undergo serious changes in the near future. The process of restructuring the whole body of architecture will take over one century, and in this process, the profession itself will face the restructuring of habits gained by architecture. These processes will require...

Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere tells a story about social problems such as class, race, privilege, and lifestyle and so on. This thesis analyzes the narrative ethics of the novel from the story level, discourse level and reading level. On the story level, the author expounds the conflicts between...

This paper focuses on the protection of residents' living conditions while the traditional settlements are properly protected and studies on how to protect and activate the traditional settlement space, so that the traditional settlements that once flourished and prospered will be reborn. Firstly, starting...

Two pieces of impefect sheets of Tangut "Persuasive Poetry" were unearthed from Xiuxing Cave in Zhangyi Town of Wuwei City. They are now collected in Gansu Museum and published in the volume 16 of the "Tangut Literatures Collected in China". This paper intends to reinterpret and compile this literature...

According to this theme of the Garden of Death twice — in a separate work and in the painting of the church in Tampere, Hugo Simberg portrays death as good-natured skeletons engaged in watering flowers in tubs against a forest, which is very unusual. Also, the interpretation of the garden itself only...

With the deepening of globalization and the strengthening of China's soft power, cultural exchanges between China and the rest of the world have been increasingly frequent nowadays. This paper discusses success of the play Lady Precious Stream translated by S.I. Hsiung in both the U.K. and the U.S. early...

The Portrait of a Lady is one of the best works of Henry James and one of the most famous works of world literature. Isabel, the heroine of "The Portrait of a Lady", has certain new ideas and the desire to pursue independence and freedom. However, she still cannot get rid of the shackles and conventional...

This essay intends to analyze Mrs Dalloway, the most important work of Virginia Woolf from the perspective of trauma theory. In the patriarchal society, women, who are disadvantaged groups subordinated to men, are rendered powerless and helpless. They witness and go through threatening or disastrous...

Conflict theory is one of the most plausible theories to be adapted to the analysis of the protagonist’s inner heart activities and outer behaviors. From the perspective of conflict theory, Arthur Dimmesdale, the heavily psychic tortured priest in the scarlet letter, is actually the most important figure...

Colombian writer Garcia Marquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and Chinese writer Chi Zijian's "The Right Bank of the Ergun River" have similar motifs of "loneliness and vicissitudes" in form. It is a historical fate about the "circulation and relay" of their respective families, but it differs in...

In realistic painting, symbol refers to an image with recognition function, and can be a specific image or a painting language with personal style. Kramskoy's paintings take "direct painting" as the main method, and pay attention to the application of realistic modeling elements. The figures in his paintings...

As one of the most famous Chinese ancient poets, Li Bai's poems are translated for English readers and there are also a lot of researches for the translations. Li Bai's image is varied in the English version by Gilles and the variation is analyzed from the key elements including alcohol, the moon and...

The question is considered: to what extent each new phenomenon of art resonates in a large culture and influences a person. The author shows how to realize his cognitive potential: European art brings it to the limit in the 17-18 centuries. Then artistic creativity in history gradually passes to the...

The main distinction in the conceptualization of space in George Simmel’s work is the opposition between the activity of the spirit and nature. Nevertheless, the work of art, as the result of the activity of the spirit, uses the material borrowed from nature, but in most cases makes it indistinguishable...

The article tells about the national axiology, codes and archetypes of Russian culture which were highlighted in the 1918 treatise by the poet Sergei Yesenin. Much attention is paid to the archetype of the ship / boat, which is dominant for Russian culture. This archetype is found in folklore, in folk...

The paper investigates the problems of convergence of philosophy and theatre, the amount of actors’ contribution to creating or performing oral philosophical text, to analyze the professional philosopher’s (or a teacher of philosophy) methods that are used to “vividly reproduce” the philosophical views...

As a famous scribe in the substitute time of Ming and Qing Dynasties, Wu Weiye received continuous attention from the academic circles. However, scholars have always focused on Wu Weiye's songs, poems and traditional opera creations, and rarely talk about his origin with Buddhist Zen. Looking into the...

This paper explains the ecological ethics of Tibetans from the perspective of complexity theory in the context of ecological civilization construction, which is of great significance to the construction of ecological civilization in Tibetan areas. Based on the theory of complexity, this paper analyzes...

The size of social production capacity is not only an important indicator of social productivity, but also a concrete manifestation of the historical trend of consumption reproduction. The productivity of contemporary art and culture supported by the booming mass culture consumption is an important essential...

As a universal existence of consumer society, "aesthetic standard of daily life" has always been criticized by theorists. In view of the traditional value coordinate and the division of the discipline system, they regard the aesthetic standard of daily life as the depravity of aesthetics and the arrogation...

From ancient times to now, ceramic art has the dual attributes of life and art. From the perspective of history and aesthetics, this paper combines the traditional aesthetics of China to expound the creative expansion of ceramic objects in modern life in design concepts and creative techniques. Meanwhile,...

Humanistic ecology refers to a kind of spiritual culture with humanistic culture as the core. Humanistic ecology is a kind of culture that can direct at people's mind and spiritual reality. As a special form of art, ceramic art has both aesthetic and artistic values, and can lead people's spirit and...

Cultural sociology has important theoretical guiding significance for cultural creative art design and management. With China's society entering the important period of innovation-driven development, IP development with certain scale of fans and huge market potential sets off a wave of frenzy in cultural...

In the history of the development of art design, as one of the aesthetic categories of art design aesthetics, technical beauty develops with the development of technology. In different periods of technology development, technical beauty also presents different characteristics. This paper mainly discusses...

The Descent is known as a horror movie. It is about six friends who make a descent into a deep cave. But a collapse traps them in it. With limited food supply, they struggled to survive each other and some unknown blood thirst creatures. Through this film, the director Neil Marshall reveals the dark...

In recent years, art works created with participation of artificial intelligence have been continuously emerging, and the creation methods are mostly regular calculation and reasoning based on the deep learning technology. According to the symbol aesthetics theory, although art works created by artificial...

Science fiction films, as the natural art style with technical genes, took the lead in becoming a trial field for the transformation of image aesthetics. As a branch of science fiction films, cyberpunk film uses dystopian urban images and the requisition of oriental symbols to construct a fantasy space...

The typical Phoenix Dress of women in Fujian She ethnic group is composed of five pieces (Phoenix topknot, coat, bib, leggings, and embroidered shoes). There are subtle differences in the dress of She people in different regions. Phoenix dress is the physical crystallization of the wisdom and culture...

In the process of reading documents on strategists in the Warring States period, Sima Qian got to know, cognized or opposed the behavior of such strategists in combination with his experience, and finally formed a set of Sima Qian mode with the style of strategists in Warring States in The Records of...

Nathaniel Hawthorne's master work The Scarlet Letter revealed the impact of The Bible on him. The novel is a powerful tale of passion, Puritanism and revenge, which is treated as the foremost romantic classic of American literature, and is truly one of the greatest triumphs in literary history. Meanwhile,...

This article investigates and describes the history of development of the Kazakh folk bow-instrument kobyz, based on the works of scientists-ethnographers. A description of the main varieties of the instrument and its performance capabilities is given along with the information on technical capabilities...

This paper begins with the development history of the adhesive interaction between the emergence of modern design and traditional art, discusses that design one the one hand draws nutrients from traditional art and gradually grows, and on the other hand breeds and exhales many creative artistic thinking...

Grimm's Fairy Tales is a collection of folk tales collected in the 19th century by the Grimm brothers in the German states of Hesse and Westphalia. It reflects the unique aesthetic features of western culture and the low status of women at the same time. The Grimm brothers serve as a sounding board for...

The article by O.E. Sheludyakova attempts to recreate some of the most important issues of modern spiritual musical education. The most important aspects of the theory and practice of regent teaching in the professional and monastic choirs of Ancient Russia, the pedagogical traditions of the Synodal...

The cultivation of ceramic art skills of primary and middle school art teachers is conducive to the inheritance and innovation of ceramic culture. It is conducive to the overall growth of primary and secondary school art teachers and the optimal development of art teaching in primary and secondary schools,...

Creative thinking is closely related to creativity. All creation originates from human's exquisite creativity. Creativity is the core of intelligence. Creative thinking is the cornerstone of creativity cultivation. It breaks through the stereotype of conventional thinking. It can not only reveal the...

In recent years, a relatively new form of design communication and brand marketing has emerged in modern commercial design, that is, relying on a cultural and creative IP image to spread and strengthen the audience attraction. Design is no longer just about simply describing and disseminating the selling...

Field professional investigation course is a core course for environmental design specialty. The purpose of this course is to provide students with practical measurement and experience of space environment. Based on the collation and analysis of the investigation process in Western Hunan, and combined...

This paper focuses on the characteristics of dance as an art category. It advocates the appropriate amount of reading and appreciation of Chinese classical poetry in dance teaching, and adds small exercises that express verses with dance movements, giving full play to the role of "sense". It is easier...

This paper takes the research perspective of art education management and the research results of Chinese scholars' art education management as the research object. Based on the analysis of 65 journal articles, 48 monographs and 8 foreign literatures, this paper discusses the main achievements and shortcomings...

This paper studies the innovative thinking of digital media art in the new era and new design. Through the research on the background and trend of service economy development, this paper analyzes the current digital media art specialty teaching practice cases both in China and foreign countries, and...

Thanks to the continuous popularization and improvement of higher education in China, colleges and universities have become the main place for cultivating outstanding talents for china society and country. Art education plays equally an important role in higher education. As an important part of art...

Micro-lecture is an emerging product in the information age. It has received extensive attention since its birth due to its unique characteristics and advantages. In this paper, the author mainly analyzes the vocal music teaching of film and television performance according to the advantages of "micro-lecture",...

The practice teaching of art design specialty is an important part of the teaching of this discipline, and it is also the focus of the teaching reform under the new situation. The main purpose of thinking and reform of practical teaching of art design specialty is to stimulate students' learning initiative...

The sketch course (sketch, design sketch) mode in the animation undergraduate teaching of colleges and universities in China is single. Years of invariable and general teaching effect needs to be addressed. This paper through the objective analysis of the current situation of animation professional sketch...

With the development of the museum, the museum's social education work has made great achievements. However, most of the current museum educational activities focus on the function of teaching objects and their historical values, often ignoring the artistic value behind the cultural relics. Historical...

Starting from the combination of tea and Chinese culture, this paper introduces the historical evolution process of tea architecture in detail, and expounds the combination of tea architecture culture and civic life in various parts of the people. It is pointed out that the long historical accumulation...

As one of the most important part of Chinese painting in the middle and late 20th century, the landscape painting of Jiazhou School has been praised for its exquisite painting skills and strong personality. In terms of pen and ink language, they have gone through hardships from the fine study of tradition,...

Bauhaus is a pioneering school in the transformation of modern art and design education in the 20th century. It is also the initiator of the implementation of preliminary courses in current China design schools. However, as an important pillar of Bauhaus overall teaching syllabus, preliminary courses...

This article analyses the dramatic structure of Valery Gavrilin's song cycle Three Songs of Ophelia. His personal understanding of this Shakespeare's character is placed in the context of interpretations offered by other Russian composers, such as Varlamov, Tchaikovsky, or Shostakovich. We also identify...

The article is dedicated to the problems of Russian Horn Music and the first musical tour of Russian Horn-Players in Europe and Great Britain. The article analyzes the role of Alexander Mihajlovich Gedeonov in the organization of this musical tour. The article considers several concerts Russian Horn...

The article analyses the publications by and about Alan Bush in the main Soviet musicological journal Sovetskaya muzyka. His own articles deliver insight into the Western musical world, but also state his commitment to Communism and the Soviet Union. As he visited the Soviet Union several times, he maintained...

Twentieth-century Russian music, such as Prokofiev's and Shostakovich's works, has become a core repertoire for British orchestras. Canonisation of this repertoire mostly occurred during the Cold War with exiled or touring Soviet musicians and conductors. This paper explores how the cultural persona...

The paper discusses the Russian film maker Andrei Tarkovsky's production of Modest Mussorgsky's 1872-1874 opera Boris Godunov at the Royal Opera House in London in 1983. The production, which has become legendary, is, among other things, the director's statement of his aesthetic convictions, just as...

Professor Alexander Vasilievich Ivashkin (1948-2014) was one of the internationally eminent musicians and researchers at the turn of the most recent century. His dedication, willpower and wisdom in pioneering the music of his contemporaries as a performer and academic were the driving force behind his...

Outsplendouring Splendour! — commented the British press on the décor the Russian artist Léon Bakst created for the performance of the ballet La Belle au Bois dormant, revived under the title The Sleeping Princess at the London Alhambra Theatre in 1921. Indeed, Bakst's contribution was the deciding factor...

At the turn of the XIX-XX centuries, Europe-wide enthusiasm about the Eastern art, which varied from Iranian miniature to Japanese engraving, led to the popularity of many artists whose works were impacted by Orientalism. In these circumstances, large London publishers, annually producing luxury gift...

The paper engages with the ideas of the prominent musician and musical scholar Alexander Ivashkin (1948-2014), whose chapter on Irrationalism in Russian music forms part of the collective volume Facets of Russian Irrationalism between Art and Life: Mystery inside Enigma edited by Olga Tabachnikova (Brill-Rodopi,...

In this article the author seeks through the prism of the analysis of Benjamin Britten's Piano concerto to trace the creative connections between the English composer and Russian (Soviet) music and culture in general. Research starts from the earlier period of the composer's creative life. He investigates...

The article deals with three most famous songs by British performers about Russia: 1) “Back in the USSR” by the Beatles (1968); 2) “Russians” by Sting (1985) and “Party like a Russian” by Robbie Williams (2016). The author investigates how the image of Russia in Western popular music has been transformed...