FORMATION OF KEY COMPETENCES WHEN STUDYING DISCIPLINE «WORLD ART CULTURE»

When Art, Science, and Culture Commingle

The history of modern science is punctuated by moments when the fruits of science captivate the public imagination. Traces of these impressions can be found in works of art; for instance, one sees the influence of 17th century astronomy on poetry in Paradise Lost, as when Satan stops by the sun to ask for directions to the earth, Milton alludes to Galileo’s discovery of sunspots: ‘‘There lands ...

A World of Art

E arly in the fifteenth century, a figure known as La Pittura—literally, “the picture”—began to appear in Italian art (Fig. 280). As art historian Mary D. Garrard has noted, the emergence of the figure of La Pittura, the personification of painting, could be said to announce the cultural arrival of painting as an art. In the Middle Ages, painting was never included among the liberal arts—those ...

Insanity, Art and Culture

Key Competences in Europe: interpretation, policy formulation and implementation

Traditionally, the notion of competence has applied to vocational education and training (VET) because of its direct link with the labour market and of the description of skills and attitudes required for some specific tasks or responsibilities. Since the 1990s, the term ‘competence’ has also become increasingly used for basic and general academic education at lower and upper secondary levels. ...

Insanity, Art and Culture

He sets out to examine the paintings of psychotics, to see if the symptoms shown are due to the illness alone or possibly to cultural background and secondly, whether the symptomatic significance is of universal or irrelevant character. In the course of the investigation various artistic mediums such as sculptoring, needlework and painting are studied. It is very necessary that in a concisely w...