scholarly journals Doctor Who meets Loving Vincent Van Gogh (A case study of the “tortured artist” stock character in popular culture)

Ars Aeterna ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-67
Author(s):  
Martin Boszorád
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Doctor Who ◽  
Van Gogh ◽  
Popular Art ◽  
Vincent Van Gogh ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Mad Scientist ◽  
Stock Character

Abstract Methodologically connecting at its core the experience-based and interpretation-based aesthetic approach to popular culture/popular art(s) on one hand and the basis-building views of what is called arch-textual thematology on the other, the paper seeks to examine, following its particular embodiment, one of the most stable, recurring and probably therefore one of the most iconic stock characters - the “tortured artist” stock character. This example of a “stereotyped character easily recognized by readers or audiences from recurrent appearances in literary or folk tradition” (Baldick, 2008, p. 317) can be - besides other principal and distinctive examples such as the “mad scientist”, the “lady/damsel in distress” or, let’s say, the “everyman” - witnessed all across culture, including the sub-sphere of popular culture, and the arts. The implied cultural significance and “omnipresence” of the “tortured artist” stock character can be aptly illustrated by Vincent Van Gogh and not only as a real-life tortured artist prototype or even archetype but also as a popular model for numerous and various cultural depictions - from poems by Charles Bukowski through the “moving pictures” of Loving Vincent to an episode of the well-recognized British TV show Doctor Who.

The Influence of Assessment on Learning and Teaching

2019 ◽  
pp. 166-185
Author(s):  
Susan Hallam
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Peer Assessment ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Summative Assessment ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Assessment Procedures ◽  
Assessment Research

It is debatable whether it is appropriate to assess performance in the arts. However, formal education institutions and the systems within which they operate continue to require summative assessment to take place in order to award qualifications. This chapter considers the extent to which such summative assessment systems in music determine not only what is taught but also what learners learn. The evidence suggests that any learning outcome in formal education that is not assessed is unlikely to be given priority by either learners or teachers. To optimize learning, the aims and the processes of learning, including formative, self-, and peer assessment procedures, should be aligned with summative assessment. Research addressing the roles, methods, and value of formative, self-, and peer assessment in enhancing learning is considered. A proposal is made that the most appropriate way of enhancing learning is to ensure that summative assessment procedures are authentic and have real-life relevance supporting the teaching and learning process, to ensure that learners are motivated and see the relevance of what they are learning. This might take many forms depending on musical genre, communities of practice, and the wider cultural environment.

Vincent Van Gogh and the elusive diagnosis of vestibular migraine

2021 ◽  
pp. 110747
Author(s):  
Soumit Dasgupta ◽  
Robby Vanspauwen ◽  
Enis Alpin Guneri ◽  
Marco Mandala
Keyword(s):  
Vestibular Migraine ◽  
Van Gogh ◽  
Vincent Van Gogh

Fractal dimension pattern-based multiresolution analysis for rough estimator of speaker-dependent audio emotion recognition

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (05) ◽  
pp. 1750042 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miao Cheng ◽  
Ah Chung Tsoi
Keyword(s):  
Fractal Dimension ◽  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Multiresolution Analysis ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Acoustic Feature ◽  
Comparative Performance ◽  
Audio Analysis ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Given

As a general means of expression, audio analysis and recognition have attracted much attention for its wide applications in real-life world. Audio emotion recognition (AER) attempts to understand the emotional states of human with the given utterance signals, and has been studied abroad for its further development on friendly human–machine interfaces. Though there have been several the-state-of-the-arts auditory methods devised to audio recognition, most of them focus on discriminative usage of acoustic features, while feedback efficiency of recognition demands is ignored. This makes possible application of AER, and rapid learning of emotion patterns is desired. In order to make predication of audio emotion possible, the speaker-dependent patterns of audio emotions are learned with multiresolution analysis, and fractal dimension (FD) features are calculated for acoustic feature extraction. Furthermore, it is able to efficiently learn the intrinsic characteristics of auditory emotions, while the utterance features are learned from FDs of each sub-band. Experimental results show the proposed method is able to provide comparative performance for AER.

scholarly journals Variety and vocal art in the context of development mass culture

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivan Bobul
Keyword(s):  
Mass Culture ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Pop Art ◽  
Spiritual Needs ◽  
Pop Music ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Popular Art ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Show Business ◽  
Vocal Art

The aim of the work is to study pop and vocal art in the context of the development of mass culture, which is genetically determined and mediated by a number of its characteristics and traits. The research methodology involves recourse to an interdisciplinary approach, as well as the use of comparative, historical and logical methods of analysis and culturological approach in the study of these issues. The scientific novelty lies in the expansion of information on the development of pop and vocal art in the context of mass culture and the mediation of its main characteristics by the formats of mass art. Conclusions. The study found that the modern system of pop art, combined with the show business, reflects the state, trends and prospects of pop music, which can be improved by understanding the socio-cultural significance of mass culture and popular art, as well as a developed sense of responsibility the creators of mass culture. The development of musical variety should be based on the generalization of previous creative experience and inherited compositional and performing traditions. The current realities of socio-cultural life determine the fact that the substantive and professional components of pop music should be based on both traditional artistic and aesthetic ideas and the search for new views on art, relevant to modern trends, tendencies and spiritual needs of society. The intensification of the musical-performing process leads to the discovery of new horizons of mastering the artistic and creative space, which, in turn, will help update the paradigm of pop art, focusing on modern pop music as an important phenomenon of socio-cultural life.

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