Search results for "Esthetics"
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Innovation in lighting for enhancing the appreciation and preservation of archaeological heritage
2014
Abstract The cultural content of ancient sites highlights the importance of light, which is an essential tool for the correct appreciation of the historical value and memory of cultural heritage. This should be a new way to highlight significance of fragments in compliance of the surrounding, which has not the same characteristics, to signal a visual path, creating itineraries that involve the context. Light plays a very important role in creating emotion, suggestion, evocation and supporting the visitor experience. Innovative technological solutions should be designed taking into account the kind of landscape and morphological characteristics of the site. This paper presents the study of a…
The origins of the aesthetic enjoyment of music - A review of the literature
2009
Listeners attribute a positive or negative value to music. This aesthetic experience is known to be observable over the individuals’ entire life span, from early childhood to old age, and in every culture. It is then often concluded that such an aesthetic experience constitutes part of the human nature, having an important biological foundation. This assumption leads to the question of how aesthetic experience of music originated in the biological evolution. In this paper, we will explore this question in the light of evolutionary psychology, cognitive science, and systems neuroscience. After reviewing the existing proposals, we conclude that the explanation of the origin of aesthetic expe…
Balenciaga, the Master of Haute Couture
2020
This chapter deals with Balenciaga, a brand that carries the name of the designer known as “The Master of Haute Couture”, one of the most revered and influential fashion designers of the twentieth century. Characterized by sculptural quality, deft manipulation of textiles, and dramatic use of color and texture, Balenciaga creations are inspired by works of art and become works of art themselves through overlapping forms and genres. In this way, artification turns an elitist–but still commercial product—into a hybrid that acquires aesthetic and symbolic value and restores that aura lost due to production logics. Following this perspective, the main contribution of the chapter is to highlight…
Machiavellego rozumienie dobra i zła
2015
Niccolo Machiavelli’s way of understanding the notions of good and evil rely on his theory of the origins of communities, according to which their basic structure is build around the figures of founders. Communities are kept alive by the constant effort make by their members to take care of common good and practice of crafts of peace. Forces opposed to the founders and disarraying the social life can be described as the figures on the continuum stretched between traitors, as Brutus or Judas, and lazy-bones or cowards, parasiting on the fruits of common labor. This way of understanding the good and the evil has its roots in the age of Athenian Enlightenment – in the conception of virtue ethi…
Le paysage, entre esthétique & écologie : modélisation rétrospective à partir de changements d'occupation du sol
2016
Landscape is both a backdrop to the lives of human populations and a medium for the life cycle of animal species. Landscape changes induced by land-use and land-cover dynamics affect both these dimensions, the one aesthetic, and the other ecological. Because these rationales areusually studied within different disciplines, little research has been done into how the two clashor combine as and when landscape structures change. This work seeks therefore to model the spatial co-evolution of the aesthetic and ecological functions of landscape retrospectively usingspatial metrics based on land-cover data. It focuses on changes in the urban fringes of two French cities (Paris and Besançon) over th…
Introduction: real animals on the stage
2018
This special issue explores the role particularly of live animals on the stage, from the early modern era to the present time. The contributions deal with visual and textual representations of performing animals, typologies of animals in the theatre, the hybridization of the drama with the circus, the zoo and the cinema, as well as the semiotic transfer of animal roles from the text to the stage. We seek here to focus on the changing historical fortunes of the four-footed actor and explore the ways that attitudes to the animal affect their dramatic representations and uses. In attempting to relate snapshots of acting animals from their earliest manifestation on the early modern stage, we co…
Relationship between perception of malocclusion and the psychological impact of dental aesthetics in university students.
2014
Introduction and Objectives: The objectives were to assess the relationship between perceived smile aesthetics and perceived psychological impact as measured by the Psychosocial Impact of Dental Aesthetics Questionnaire (PIDAQ), and their own perception of it using the Aesthetic Component of the Index of Orthodontic Treatment Need (IOTN-AC) and a Visual Analog Scale (VAS); relate the IOTN-AC and VAS to the PIDAQ; and study the predictive capacity of the scales for psychological impact. Material and Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in 447 college students in Spain and Portugal (average age 20.4 years, 33.1% men and 66.9% women). The online self-completed surveys used the recent…
Implant-supported overdenture with horizontal insertion for treating the edentulous atrophic maxilla: A case series
2020
Abstract Statement of problem Rehabilitation of edentulous patients with severe maxillary atrophy is a clinical challenge. Although several treatment options are available, the implant-supported overdenture has been widely advocated. However vertical insertion implant-supported overdentures have drawbacks, including wear, aging, and the continuous maintenance of retention systems. Whether an implant-supported overdenture with a horizontal insertion pathway can overcome these problems is unclear. Purpose The purpose of this observational study was to determine the clinical and biological behavior of a new type of implant-supported overdenture with a horizontal insertion pathway over a mean c…
Bērna radošā pašizpausme vizuālajā mākslā pirmsskolā
2021
Grāmata paredzēta topošajiem skolotājiem studiju kursam Kultūras izpratnes un pašizpausmes mākslā mācību jomas saturs un mācīšanās pieejas: vizuālās mākslas metodika un praktizējošiem pirmsskolas skolotājiem, bērnu vecākiem. Grāmata palīdzēs skolotājam mērķtiecīgi organizēt pašizpausmes procesu vizuālajā mākslā, lai bērnam veidotos vispārīgās jeb caurviju prasmes, kas ietver bērna darbības kognitīvos, emocionālos un sociālos aspektus, kuri palīdz apgūt zināšanas, izpratni un pamatprasmes cilvēka darbībai nozīmīgās jomās. Grāmatas autore ir LU Pedagoģijas, psiholoģijas un mākslas fakultātes docētāja.
Jēgpilns mācību process vizuālajā mākslā
2020
Grāmata paredzēta studentiem, topošajiem skolotājiem, apgūstot studiju kursu “Kultūras izpratnes un pašizpausmes mākslā mācību jomas saturs un mācīšanās pieejas: Vizuālās mākslas metodika”, kā arī praktizējošiem skolotājiem. Grāmata palīdzēs mērķtiecīgi organizēt vizuālās mākslas nodarbības, lai skolēns, mācoties vizuālo mākslu bez pratības kultūras izpratnē un pašizpausmē mākslā, gūtu pašvadītas mācīšanās, kritiskas domāšanas un problēmu risināšanas, jaunrades, sadarbības un pilsoniskās līdzdalības pieredzi, pilnveidojot caurviju prasmes. Grāmatā vizuālā māksla uztverta nevis kā mērķis, bet gan kā līdzeklis daudzveidīgu personisku, sociālu un kulturālu mērķu sasniegšanai.