Visible Signs: An Introduction to Semiotics in the Visual Arts

Basic semiotic theories are taught in most art schools as part of a contextual studies program, but many students find it difficult to understand how these ideas might impact on their own practice. Visible Signs tackles this problem by introducing key theories and concepts, such as signs and signifiers, and language and speech, within the framework of visual communication.

Uta Frith’s thoughts on the Theory of Mind and Autistic Deficit: Dialogue between Art and Neuroscience

The contemporary scientist and German developmental psychologist at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience of University College London, Uta Frith has mainly focused her research on autism spectrum disorder and the related theory-of-mind deficit. To explain the autistic mentalistic deficit, the psychologist has used a specific tool: art, her initial pursuit cultivated at the Universität des Saarlandes, in Germany. Thus, this work seeks to reconstruct the artistic influences on Uta Frith’s scientific efforts, highlighting how the dialogical intersection of two seemingly distant disciplines, like art and neuroscience, can generate surprising new networks of signification and an understanding of the intrapsychic and interpsychic worlds. Art challenges us to develop moments of neuroscientific knowledge. On the other. In contrast, neuroscience offers the opportunity to develop further insights into the role of visual perception in contemplating works of art.

A Discussion of Artificial Intelligence in Visual Art Education

Since ChatGPT emerged on November 30, 2022, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been increasingly discussed as a radical force that will change our world. People have become used to AI in which such ubiquitous technologies as Siri, Google, and Netflix deploy AI algorithms to answer questions, impart information, and provide recommendations. However, many individuals including originators and backers of AI have recently expressed grave concerns. In this paper, the authors will assess what is occurring with AI in Visual Arts Education, outline positives and negatives, and provide recommendations addressed specifically for teachers working in the field regarding emerging AI usage from kindergarten to grade twelve levels as well as in higher education.

大学文科专业《Visual FoxPro程序设计》教学改革探讨

对大学文科专业学生学习《Visual FoxPro程序设计》课程存在的问题进行分析,提出在课堂教学中多种教学方法的综合运用,在实践中网络教学平台的使用等教学改革方案,激发学生学习兴趣,提高学生计算机动手能力。

Does Visual Training Provide Competitive Advantage in the Perceived Stressful Situations of a Tennis Match？

Vision training is often proposed through the unchallenged assumption that the training of sight skills is paramount to vision and can improve competitive performance. A growing body of neuroscientific literature demonstrates that most vision processes happen as a result of inside-out rather than outside-in neural pathways. Training systems and methods are often being counselled, promoted, and accepted as solve-it-all approaches without statistic and scientific evidence that training improvement can be transferred from training sessions to competitive performance.

On visual art elements of the web interface

With the rapid development of modern high-tech, human society is advancing towards the information age. The advent of Intemet technology has brought mankind a new communication experience, and it makes communication between people undergo a fimdamental change. Today＇ s information and communication has broken the traditional way, storage, use and exchange of information are all inseparable from the network, the platform. Network development is affecting all aspects of human behavior and production life. In network technology, web interface design is a very important part. Web interface design is inseparable from the visual arts, both in mutual integration and the overall design, so that the web interface has the aesthetic appeal of the visual arts and the humanities connotation. Due to the development of network technology, people also put forward higher requirements for web design. Web interface design should not only reflect the excellent content, but also create one of the most intuitive visual arts presentation form. This text will begin from a Web page design and production, analyzed and studied its visual art elements to achieve a reasonable and beautiful web interface.

Comparison of visual quality in cataract patients with low astigmatism after ART2 or ReSTOR intraocular lens implantation

AIM: To compare visual quality in cataract patients with low corneal astigmatism who underwent intraocular lens(IOL) implantation, and evaluate effects of low levels of astigmatism on visual outcomes in multifocal pseudophakic eyes.METHODS: This retrospective review of clinical records comprised patients with preoperative regular corneal astigmatism of 0.75-1.0 diopters(D) with-the-rule or 0.5-0.75 D against-the-rule who had uneventful cataract surgery and AcrySof IQ ReSTOR Toric-2 IOL(ART2) or AcrySof IQ ReSTOR IOL(ReSTOR) implantation. Retrospective data collection included postoperative ART2 axis rotation, uncorrected astigmatism, uncorrected entire visual acuities, distance corrected entire visual acuities, average modulation transfer function(aMTF), Strehl ratio(SR), spectacle independence, and patient satisfaction between groups.RESULTS: Mean ART2 axis rotation was 3.12°±0.70°. No secondary surgery was required to realign IOL axis. Residual astigmatism values were-0.18±0.07 D and-0.91±0.25 D in groups ART2 and ReSTOR(P<0.05). Three months postoperatively, the mean uncorrected distant, intermediate, and near visual acuities of group A were 0.01±0.05, 0.05±0.07, 0.02±0.07 logMAR, respectively; these were better than those of group R, which were 0.08±0.06, 0.15±0.12, and 0.09±0.08 logMAR, respectively(P<0.05). aMTF, SR, and spectacle independence rates were not significantly different. All patients were satisfied with postoperative results.CONCLUSION: ART2 is more suitable than ReSTOR for cataract patients with regular corneal astigmatism 0.75-1.0 D with-the-rule or 0.5-0.75 D against-the-rule.

A visual art museum in Sweden as pedagogical scenery: Gibbs’ reflective cycle guiding student nurses in the reflective process

The pedagogy employed in health care education must continually be questioned and expanded. Student nurses must be prepared for nursing practice that continually changes, consequently alternative concepts in nurse education must be considered. The aims were to provide student nurses with reflection skills and to evaluate the potential of studying the reflective process using visual art at a museum as an enriched activity in education. A pedagogical program with Gibbs’ reflection model was used as a complement. The study was conducted at a University College of Health Sciences in Sweden in collaboration with a visual art museum. Data were collected during a period of three years. A random sample (n = 35 of n = 98 students’ reports) was selected for qualitative analysis. The painting by George-Pierre Seurat, Seated woman was used as a source of inspiration. Analysis was conducted of the excerpts generated from the steps in Gibbs’ reflection model and from students’ evaluations of the teaching-learning structure. The results show that students were able to build hypothetical situations around the character depicted in the painting. They observed and described a great many aspects of the reflective process. The chosen painting was regarded as suitable for its purpose, and a source of inspiration. It could be interpreted as a patient you might meet in clinical practice. The students′ evaluations show that they became aware of knowledge they had not thought of before, and a way of taking a step closer to clinical practice. It could be concluded that art museum could be regarded as a stimulating environment that nurtured the reflective process. Consequently, visual art museums have to be considered as possible teaching learning milieus to be used in nurse education. It is to be hoped that this study will contribute to further development of visual art museums as teaching learning settings.

Survey on computational 3D visual optical art design

Visual arts refer to art experienced primarily through vision.3D visual optical art is one of them.Artists use their rich imagination and experience to combine light and objects to give viewers an unforgettable visual experience.How-ever,the design process involves much trial and error;therefore,it is often very time-consuming.This has prompted many researchers to focus on proposing various algorithms to simplify the complicated design processes and help artists quickly realize the arts in their minds.To help computer graphics researchers interested in creating 3D visual optical art,we first classify and review relevant studies,then extract a general framework for solving 3D visual optical art design problems,and finally propose possible directions for future research.

A language to analyze, describe, and explore collections of visual art

A vast quantity of art in existence today is inaccessible to individuals.If people want to know the different types of art that exist,how individual works are connected,and how works of art are interpreted and discussed in the context of other works,they must utilize means other than simply viewing the art.Therefore,this paper proposes a language to analyze,describe,and explore collections of visual art(LadeCA).LadeCA combines human interpretation and automatic analyses of images,allowing users to assess collections of visual art without viewing every image in them.This paper focuses on the lexical base of LadeCA.It also outlines how collections of visual art can be analyzed,described,and explored using a LadeCA vocabulary.Additionally,the relationship between LadeCA and indexing systems,such as ICONCLASS or AAT,is demonstrated,and ways in which LadeCA and indexing systems can complement each other are highlighted.

Visualization of Special Features in “The Tale of Genji” by Text Mining and Correspondence Analysis with Clustering

In this paper, visualization of special features in “The Tale of Genji”, which is a typical Japanese classical literature, is studied by text mining the auxiliary verbs and examining the similarity in the sentence style by the correspondence analysis with clustering. The result shows that the text mining error in the number of auxiliary verbs can be as small as 15%. The extracted feature in this study supports the multiple authors of “The Tale of Genji”, which agrees well with the result by Murakami and Imanishi [1]. It is also found that extracted features are robust to the text mining error, which suggests that the classification error is less affected by the text mining error and the possible use of this technique for further statistical study in classical literatures.

Civilization and Art： Lifeworld in the Variety of Visual Experience

The paper examines the assignment of the visual experience in the context of interrelation between civilization and art. Civilization is defined as ＂the survival of the weak＂. It is stressed that this definition can be applied to man, animal and every living being. Lie as ＂someone else＇s truth＂ and art as ＂the process of the creation of ＇copies of the copies of nature＇＂ are considered to be the weak man＇s tools for survival. The author argues that purpose of erotic scenes and scenes of hunting （death and violence） both in the past and in the present is the excitation at the woman of desire to reproduction.

A study on landscape design paradigm from the perspective of visual impact and experience

Space is one of the important landscape node types in landscape architecture, and it is the supporting framework of landscape architecture. The understanding of space and space art landscape design in the garden by the way of consulting and reference case, in order to better the performance of landscape art in the landscape garden for the purpose of systematic analysis of knowledge structure of landscape space, provide a comprehensive reference for the future design of the landscape garden. This paper from the background of our landscape design conception, combined with the trend of landscape design Chinese traditional garden design techniques and modem residential area of research and analysis, explore the new design of modem residential area, in order to create a Chinese characteristics, local characteristics of the residential landscape, to further explore the charm of traditional culture, highlighting the regional characteristics.

Preschool Child＇s Researching Interests and Role of Visual Art＇s Expressing Media

Genuine interest, research zeal, and visual art expressiveness which are typical of the pre-school period can pose a challenge to every teacher, at the same time, guide them when planning different contents for children to explore and discover. As one of the primary expressing media and an important support when forming concepts, visual art plays an indispensable role in the pre-school period. The following thesis is based on an action research whose key tendencies were focused on establishing children＇s interests in different useful materials and tools while enabling them an autonomous visual art use of these tools and didactical possibilities of the teacher involved. The activities included in the research were fully in line with the Slovenian National Kindergarten Curriculum and the project was carried out in the form of several successive meetings intended for visual art creative activities. All activities in the research were photo-documented while the analysis of the research＇s data was performed based on observation and written notes referring to individual child＇s responses, his or her questions, ideas, and incentives, the course of cognitive and creative process, communication with the peers and teachers and other potential particularities.

Research on the Development Trend of Art Design Patterns under the Perspectives of Interaction Design and Visual Reconstruction

In the paper, we conduct research on the development trend of art design patterns under the perspectives of interaction design and visual reconstruction. With the increasing of people’s living standard, people on the industrial product requirements are constantly increasing, industrial products have gradually become to meet people’s life comfortable, functional, aesthetic and cultural history of the pursuit of all kinds of needs and the carrier of many connotations it is because of these changes in art design. In this paper, we integrate the Bauhaus’ idea to construct the new idea of constructing the interaction design and visual reconstruction. To note here that includes both the facts to the reality of the fact that also includes the artistic truth, or “virtual reality experience such as writer”, sequence of works of art, etc., and the former is an artist biography, the object of art history. With these basis and references, we propose the new idea on the issues. The result is satisfactory.

Visual Nationalism and Communal Rituals:Park Saengkwang’s Art and Korean Shamanism

This paper analyzes Park Saengkwang(1904-1985)’s artwork,created in the 1980s and influenced by Musok,Korean Shamanism.It explores Musok’s thematic significance in the development of his distinctive style and the inspiration behind his stylistic changes.Park’s ink paintings are done in bold and intense colors and create an intriguing,mysterious mood,inviting the viewers to the primordial visual experience and exposing its viewers to Korean Shamanism,which has endured the perception that fluctuated between positive and negative throughout Korean history.The practice became a fitting cultural emblem associated with the national identity during the 1970s and 1980s,and thus became a way for Park to explicitly articulate his cultural roots,creating a visual connotation of“Korean.”His art,portraying gut,Korean shamanistic communal rituals,could be conceived as a pictorial rendering of the idea of kibok,praying for good fortune,and served as a pujŏk,talisman paper,that possesses magical healing and protecting power.By striving to overcome the stylistic conflicts between Korean and Japanese,or traditional and Western,Park’s art accomplished the visual rhetoric of national aesthetic sensitivity that built on the communal thoughts and cultural experience of shamanism in the modern history of Korea.

Reclusive Dwelling Schema of Chinese Landscape Painting:Narrative Medium,Visualization,and Implication

The reclusive dwelling is an important part of the traditional philosophical culture of ancient China.The Chinese spiritual imagery of reclusion is mainly represented by narrative mediums of poems,paintings,and garden works,resulting in artistic visualization with poetic implication.The article analyzed six Chinese landscape paintings of reclusive dwelling theme,in terms of narrative medium,visualization,and implication.The intention is to conclude the reclusive dwelling schema of Chinese landscape painting and study a visualizing methodology involved spiritual implication on dwelling,which could be beneficial to both contemporary art and architectural creations.

绘画艺术在服装设计中的视觉化展现

绘画艺术题材广泛,其造型手法纷繁多样,表现方式千变万化。借助绘画艺术的独特表现手法,汲取优秀绘画艺术作品中的设计元素,服装设计师可将创新的服装设计理念和思想转化为可视化形态,从而更为精妙地呈现服装的视觉效果,让服装设计作品更深层次地贴近消费者需求。从视觉角度出发,深入剖析绘画艺术在服装色彩、造型,以及诸多细节层面的可视化表达方式,总结了绘画艺术运用于服装设计过程中,在设计理念与设计方法等方面所采用的策略,以期对服装设计行业创新发展提供一定的参考意见。

Seniors’ experiences of visual art environmental enrichment

The present study aimed at determining whether short-term exposure to art in shared common areas in congregate housing units could affect health and health determinants among the residents. Ten residents (mean age 80.4 years) at one block were exposed to visual art environmental enrichment in common areas over a period of three months. Thirteen persons (mean age 86.6 years) living in another block played in-house boule. Cornell’s test, Mini-Mental tests (MMT), and face recognition test were performed to assess depression, cognition, and episodic memory, respectively before and after the intervention. The results show that visual art environmental enrichment in common areas and lack of stimulating and guiding dialogues show a change in depression scores in the intervention group (p = 0.018) and the control group (p = 0.009). MMT scores improved only in the control group (p = 0.003). No changes in episodic memory in any of the groups were observed. It could be concluded that in order to obtain a positive result of short term visual art environmental enrichment, guiding art dialogues conducted by nurses, as described in previous research, should be added to visual art environmental enrichment in healthcare settings.

The Construction of Campus Visual Culture

At present,with the development of information technology,visual culture has greatly influenced all aspects of life.Therefore,schools at all levels and types should focus on the construction of campus visual culture,which is a conducive way to actively and effectively carry out moral education,at the same time play its irreplaceable role.Campus visual culture may function as ear fumigating and eye staining.It can not only promote all-round development of students,but also improve their independent personality and ingenuity.This paper is mainly discussing the visual culture,the construction of campus visual culture,the significance of campus visual in art and art education,and the relationship between them.