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Ellis, Hele. "Decentering the subjective: The transcendent experience of formlessness in an abstract expressionist painting practice." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2017. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/107658/1/Hele_Ellis_Thesis.pdf.
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This practice-led research project is based on the experimental strategy of Formlessness within painting, a negation of representation within the compositions, which potentially act as a pathway to sensory immersion and without a subject-matter to an awareness of Self. The colour palette chosen for the colour fields introduces chromatic couplings that are specifically hung for maximum charge. The colours present as taking on their own lives, explaining the compelling force behind these works that lead to a pure sensation. Key tenets of Anthroposophy - with particular concern towards Steiner's writing on colour - are central to the theoretical position the project takes.
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Friend, Zoe L. "Normal What." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1305.
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The title Normal What refers to a group of paintings that emerged from my Masters of Visual Arts 2004/05 studio project. Individual paintings are chronological self portrait reflecting upon my own experiences and those in the wider community who at some point in their lives have had to endure the struggles, and negative stigma that is so often attached to those who have become marginalised and detached from mainstream society. People found in this category include the disabled, homeless, unemployed, and those with addiction problems. Each painting bears a close connection with techniques associated with abstract expressionist painting. This radiates through the vast expanse of drips, stains and explosions which appear to suffocate the paintings delicate monochrome surface. Strong references to Kristeva’s theory on Abjection arrive through the aggressive and violent outbursts of paint that evoke an atmosphere of symbolic horror, personal dysfunction and social oppression. This emerges out of the shadows and private spaces of the painting’s domestic interior. Deep emotional, psychological, sociological sensitivities are raised throughout my studio practice. Combined with a series of unresolved tensions, and questions surrounding normality run deep a consequence of society’s push for normality are being felt most acutely by those effected by this form of sociology. The ideas raised through my studio project had a profound influence on the research being conducted for the dissertation. Kristeva’s theory on Abjection, along side the practices of Eva Hesse, Barnett Newman, Agnes Martin emerged from a group of highly emotional abstract paintings. This strengthened the connection between the studio project and the dissertation. Aimed at deepening a personal understanding an commitment to researching the subject of normality and how it could be successfully articulated through a visual narrative.
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Friend, Zoe L. "Normal What." University of Sydney, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1305.
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Master of Visual ArtsThe title Normal What refers to a group of paintings that emerged from my Masters of Visual Arts 2004/05 studio project. Individual paintings are chronological self portrait reflecting upon my own experiences and those in the wider community who at some point in their lives have had to endure the struggles, and negative stigma that is so often attached to those who have become marginalised and detached from mainstream society. People found in this category include the disabled, homeless, unemployed, and those with addiction problems. Each painting bears a close connection with techniques associated with abstract expressionist painting. This radiates through the vast expanse of drips, stains and explosions which appear to suffocate the paintings delicate monochrome surface. Strong references to Kristeva’s theory on Abjection arrive through the aggressive and violent outbursts of paint that evoke an atmosphere of symbolic horror, personal dysfunction and social oppression. This emerges out of the shadows and private spaces of the painting’s domestic interior. Deep emotional, psychological, sociological sensitivities are raised throughout my studio practice. Combined with a series of unresolved tensions, and questions surrounding normality run deep a consequence of society’s push for normality are being felt most acutely by those effected by this form of sociology. The ideas raised through my studio project had a profound influence on the research being conducted for the dissertation. Kristeva’s theory on Abjection, along side the practices of Eva Hesse, Barnett Newman, Agnes Martin emerged from a group of highly emotional abstract paintings. This strengthened the connection between the studio project and the dissertation. Aimed at deepening a personal understanding an commitment to researching the subject of normality and how it could be successfully articulated through a visual narrative.
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Geer, Andrea. "The non-representational language /." Online version of thesis, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/11309.
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Smith, Catherine Dicesare. "Synergistic qualities of form and space /." Online version of thesis, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/11927.
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Engström, Alexander. "Inger Ekdahl : Swedish Abstract Expressionism." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för kultur och estetik, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-182385.
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Inger Ekdahl was a female painter at the center of Swedish Abstract Expressionism in the fifties. This essay investigates how her art was received in Stockholm and Paris. We conclude that although her type of art dominated the avant-garde in Paris during the late fifties, she was too early for the Swedish avant-garde and did not amass enough support to transform it. The analysis used Actor-Network Theory following Latour.
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Alvarez, Leticia. "The Influence of the Mexican Muralists in the United States. From the New Deal to the Abstract Expressionism." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32407.
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This thesis proposes to investigate the influence of the Mexican muralists in the United States, from the Depression to the Cold War. This thesis begins with the origins of the Mexican mural movement, which will provide the background to understand the artists' ideologies and their relationship and conflicts with the Mexican government. Then, I will discuss the presence of Mexican artists in the United States, their repercussions, and the interaction between censorship and freedom of expression as well as the controversies that arose from their murals.
This thesis will explore the influence that the Mexican mural movement had in the United States in the creation of a government-sponsored program for the arts (The New Deal, Works Progress Administration). During the 1930s, sociological factors caused that not only the art, but also the political ideologies of the Mexican artists to spread across the United States. The Depression provided the environment for a public art of social content, as well as a context that allowed some American artists to accept and follow the Marxist ideologies of the Mexican artists. This influence of radical politics will be also described.
Later, I will examine the repercussions of the Mexican artists' work on the Abstract Expressionist movement of the 1940s. Finally I will also examine the iconography of certain murals by Mexican and American artists to appreciate the reaction of their audience, their acceptance among a circle of artists, and the historical context that allowed those murals to be created.Master of Arts
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Wang, Hui Ping. "The British response to abstract expressionism of the USA c. 1950-1963." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/461.
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Abstract Expressionism was arguably the most important art movement after the Second World War and it has in many ways influenced all subsequent art movements in the West. This thesis investigates the presence of Abstract Expressionism in Britain and responses to it in the 1950s and early 1960s. Abstract Expressionism was presented to the British public through literature and exhibitions by individual Americans and by American institutions after 1947, but it was not until 1956 that Abstract Expressionist paintings became accessible in any quantity. While it was denounced by many, it won sympathies from two main groups of artists: firstly, established painters who were exploring the incorporation of abstract form with imagery from landscape and figure, and secondly, the younger generation of art students. The British constructivists were unaffected. For these established painters, Abstract Expressionism was more of a pure inspiration than a stylistic stereotype. A few of them experienced dramatic changes of style as a result, while others showed a very restricted interest in it. The reai impact was on the young artists. Under the influence of the Independent Group, which helped in generating an awareness of a new urbanism in London, they treated Abstract Expressionism and its later development Post-Painterly Abstraction, as an authentic reflection of contemporary society. They were not only eager to contribute to it but also to embrace it as their own. At the end of the 1950s, the majority of critics had accepted current status of Abstract Expressionism. Its two major British critics, Patrick Heron and Lawrence Alloway, were activists on t he contemporary art scene. Heron restricted his argument by what was essentially a combination of the painting qualities that Roger Fry had qualified and the idealism of the 1930s abstraction promoted by Herbert Read. Alloway, on the other hand, successfully exploited Abstract Expressionism to promote a new British-movement. His ideas, inspired by Abstract Expressionism as well as American consumerism, popular culture, science and technology, were embraced by young artists. British art was thus transformed in the 1960s, to a urbanisminspired art, which came from the "real' world and was receptive to its influence, rather than retreating into landscape, a psychological inner world or the realms of artistic idealism.
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Nauronis, Gintautas. "Abstrakti vizija." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2012. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2012~D_20120211_115650-43829.
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Darbais kuriame savo istoriją, tarsi stebuklinį mitą, kuris tampa savotišku veidrodžiu, rodančiu regimus ir neregimus mūsų sielos pavidalus. Gintauto Nauronio tapyba taip pat jo gyvenimo metraštis, abstraktūs vaizdai, žmogaus pažvelgimas į save, į savo vidinį pasaulį, charakterio, temperamento savybes, egzistenciją.
Aliejinės tapybos darbų kolekcija "Abstrakti vizija"- tai sielos harmonija, kurios nereikia filosofiškai paaiškinti – užtenka išgyventi, pajusti, nuspėti.
Dailininko prigimtis, įvaldyta tapybinė technika, sugebanti įkvėpti gyvybę drobei. Įvairiausių spalvų ir atspalvių deriniai, kompozicijose panaudota linija, tapybos ciklui suteikia ypatingo skambesio. Darbuose dvelkianti ramybė, nuoširdumas, tyrumas, fantazija, jautrumas, optimizmas, ryžtas, geros, šviesios mintys užpildo naujais pojūčiais kiekvieno žiūrovo sielą ir gerą nuotaiką…
Dinamiškas modernistinis tapymo būdas, kurio pagrindas - tikėjimas, esą vidines pajautas, intuicijas, jausmus, potyrius bei būsenas betarpiškai perteikia spontaniška estetinio impulso raiška, suardanti nusistovėjusį pasaulį, jo vaizdą ir deformuojanti jo pavidalus.
Magistro darbas susideda iš dviejų dalių: teorinio aprašo ir praktinio kūrybinio darbo.
Teorinėje dalyje apžvelgiama kolekcijos koncepcija, idėjos ir temos paieška, darbe nagrinėjama problema, darbo tikslo bei uždavinių konkretizavimas, apžvelgiamos abstrakcionizmo, ekspresionizmo, fovizmo temos, spalvos reikšmė mene, kompozicijos... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]By works we create own history, sort of magic myth, which becomes a peculiar mirror showing visible and invisible our shapes of soul. The painting of Gintautas Nauronis and also his chronicle of life, abstract images, and human’s look into himself, his inner world, character, temperament’s features, existence. The creative collection of oily paintings Abstract Vision – it is soul‘s harmony, which is needn‘t to explain philosofically – it is enough to outlive, feel, foresee. The nature of painter, acquired pictorial technique, which is able to animate for a linen. The combinations of various colours and tones, a line used in the composition give a special sound for cycle of painting. The calm, warm, energy, breath, optimism, strength, sensibility and even love whiffling in the paintings, fill every spectator‘s soul and moode by new feelings... Dynamic modernistic method of painting, whose principle - belief that sensations, intuitions, feelings, experiences and states are proximately conveyd by spontaneous aesthetical expression of impulse, which destroys a well-established view of life and deforms its shapes. Dissertation consists of to parts: theoretical schedule and practical creative work. In the theoretical part it is overlook ideas and search of theme, the significance of abstractionism, expressionism, fovism and colour in the art, conception of composition, it is also provided theoretical material of Dr. Robert Belton What is Art?, What is... [to full text]
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Rampin, Dantas Neves. "A musica de Morton Feldman sob a otica de sua compreensão da pintura do expressionismo abstrato." [s.n.], 2008. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/284696.
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Orientador: Denise Hortencia Lopes GarciaDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes
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Resumo: Esta pesquisa reflete a relação entre a música do compositor norte americano Morton Feldman e o grupo de pintores do Expressionismo Abstrato The New York School of Visual Arts - partindo da ótica do próprio compositor. Abordamos a maneira como Feldman trabalhou concepções advindas da pintura na composição técnica e estética em sua música. Para discorrer sobre este tema, a dissertação apresenta uma breve contextualização histórica da década de 50, do século passado, momento do encontro de Feldman com os pintores. Em seguida, apresentamos as concepções desenvolvidas por Feldman em sua música derivadas da pintura. Para tanto, apresentaremos análises que nos permitam compreender como estas concepções se concretizam musicalmente através da história notacional do compositor. Do ponto de vista metodológico a pesquisa se vale das declarações do próprio compositor, de pesquisas que abordam o trabalho composicional de Morton Feldman e da análise de obras. Priorizamos a análise da peça Crippled Symmetry, já que ela apresenta uma das notações mais originais produzidas por Feldman, o que nos inspirou a composição de Sombras Sobre o Encoberto 11, peça que apresentamos neste trabalho como resultado composicional desta pesquisa. Nas considerações finais, além do resultado de Sombras Sobre o Encoberto 11, discutimos como as concepções utilizadas por Feldman a partir da pintura pode ser amplamente explorada como base composicional singular.
Abstract: This research is about the relation between the music of the American composer Morton Feldman and the group of painters of Abstract Expressionism The New York School of Visual Arts - from the point of view of himself. It will focus the way Feldman developed concepts drawn from painting in the technique and aesthetics of his music. Thus the dissertation presents a historical account of the 1950s, when Feldman and the painters met. Then we present concepts Feldman drew from painting and developed in his music. We provide analyses which allow us to understand how such concepts work musically throughout Feldman's notational history. The method of this research is based on Feldman's statements, researches about his compositional work and the analysis of pieces. Crippled symmetry, whose notation is among the most original devised by Feldman, undergoes extensive analysis. It has also been the inspiration for the composition of our work Sombras sobre o Encoberto II, We present this piece as the compositional outcome of this research. In addition to this piece, the conclusion shows how the concepts Feldman drew from painting can be vastly explored as a unique basis for the composition of music.
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Pasek, Jeffrey Douglas. "Worry My Head: An Exploration of Head-Like Forms as an Expression of Existential Concerns." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1385383454.
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Ye, Guo Shin. "Appropriation and hybridity of Taiwanese literati painting and American abstract expressionism (1949-2007)." Thesis, London Metropolitan University, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.536723.
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For centuries, traditional Literati painting has been unchallenged and has not undergone any real or radical change. The Taiwanese Modem Ink-wash Painting that emerged in the 1950s is an extension of this painterly tradition. This new visual form of modern Ink-wash painting that I am presenting, is a hybrid, combining both Chinese Ink-wash painting and American Abstract Expressionism, and represents a different and I hope more progressive artistic style in comparison to the restricted conventions of Literati painting. My thesis seeks to evaluate the mutual appropriation of the stylistic and ideological assumptions of both Chinese painting, in particular Literati painting, and American Abstract Expressionism. The final objective of my research is to create a new hybrid art that comprises both Eastern and Western aesthetics and with a view to establishing new paradigms in visual arts culture. A dualistic approach was therefore adopted to analyse both painterly traditions in terms of their components such as media, techniques, philosophical and aesthetic theories. Some evidences of previous and existing East-West cross-cultural influences are also evaluated as well as the further developments of both traditions to the present day. The findings of these studies were then used to support the creation of my new hybrid artworks with the main artistic components of both Literati painting and Abstract Expressionism. In addition, a list of criteria is thereby created to enable me to evaluate the elements of hybridity of my artworks. Both modem Ink-wash painting and Abstract Expressionism emerged in similar socio-political conditions with a common interest in abstraction and challenging convention, as well as seeking greater freedom of attitude in visual expression. In the same way, and by handling the components in the table of hybrid evaluation criteria' I have set up, a body of my new hybrid art reveals the increasing hybridism from a totally Oriental Literati painting to a painting that is almost fully Westernised. By varying the combinations in the table of hybrid evaluation criteria, one may utilise this methodological framework to create diverse hybrid artworks and which are limited only by imagination.
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Schultz, Ruth. "Being of shape : being--The ground through which all things are /." Online version of thesis, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/11082.
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LEVA, SHANNON ARMSTRONG. "JACKSON POLLOCK'S 1942 PAINTINGS: DEPICTIONS OF HERMAPHRODITIC UNION." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1195578410.
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Farber, Jeffrey W. "Natural interactions : a commentary on our relationship with nature." Virtual Press, 2008. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1391229.
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The objective of this creative project is to develop a series of paintings in oil on canvas that focus on the issue of mankind's crumbling relationship with the natural world. The paintings will be produced through a process that begins with an intuitive abstract approach and will later develop layered representational imagery. My technique of painting involves initially choosing and mixing colors without regard to the finished painting, allowing the subconscious to determine the direction that the painting will take. Upon completion of the under painting, I begin creating stencils and layering imagery that provoke thought concerning nature and our place in it. This collection of paintings is representative of the process I have developed through a wide variety of influences, and is a means of communicating my concern for the ever dwindling natural environment and our connection to it.Department of Art
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Lause, John F. "Matter under Mind." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3270.
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The artist discusses the work for his Masters of Fine Arts exhibition, Mind under Matter, held at the Tipton Gallery in downtown Johnson City, Tennessee. Exhibition dates are from March 27th through April 5th 2017. ‘Matter under Mind’ explores the balance of control and non-control within the art-making process. This technique creates an automatic dialogue resulting in abstraction guided by the subconscious. The title ‘Matter under Mind’ is a slight play on the phrase ‘mind over matter’ emphasizing how matter/material is manipulated by the mind through the making of artwork, and within the mind’s eye or imagination.
The video installation featuring the work is accompanied by a soundscape to bring the viewer deeper into the creative process. The video symbolizes the idea of ‘solve et coagula’ or, dissolve and coagulate, destroy to recreate by revealing how the process of cleaning paint off of a surface creates artwork in itself.
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Block, Katherine M. "Veils: Truth in Translation." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2540.
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This supporting document for the thesis exhibition entitled “Veils: Truth in Translation” will discuss Block’s exploration of painting during her time at East Tennessee State University. The supporting document also provides the historical background and influences which have contributed to Block's overall process and techniques. These influences include the Abstract Expressionists, Carl Jung, Ferdinand de Saussure, John Dewey, Theodor Adorno, Joan Mitchell and Gerhard Richter. In the supporting document Block probes the idea that non-objective painting is more than a language confined by linguistic elements of sign, signifier, and signified, but is a process of thinking, which is communicated on a higher level of perception than verbal speech or visual symbolism. Block will discuss how she translates experiences from the metaphysical realm of feeling and thought to the physical reality of paint and surface which communicates the experience to the viewer.
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Lee, Chanju. "Birth and Women in Mythology." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2008. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/art_design_theses/35.
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The Birth is a multi-media video installation inspired by my personal experiences of a miscarriage and the births of my two children. The work is influenced by the mythologies found in Korean culture that focus on the mother figure as a ¡°Great Mother¡±. She is an ¡°ideal woman¡±, a ¡°good mother¡± and a ¡°sincere wife¡±. Working abstractly across the media of painting, video, digital animation, and the paintings of my son, The Birth exploits metaphors and symbols, to tell the story of women, especially the stories of mothers. The work speaks to motherly love and my own identity as an artist and a mother.
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af, Malmborg Solith. "Research: ROTHKO : - ett arbete om att lära känna sig själv genom någon annan." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Malmstens Linköpings universitet, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-146095.
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This thesis project examines both inner and outer circumstances of knowledge in an attempt to emphasize the importance of personal reflection. I search for answers on how to communicate feelings through colour and form by studying Mark Rothko and the abstract expressionism. A personal reflection is made parallelly to expand my own understanding of the subject and my own role in relation to it. I also explore painting as amethod of deepening my understanding of Rothko. Mark Rothko is both subject of study and tutor as I give myself the task of translating his art into my own design. The result offers thoughts and ideas on the significance of the work of hand, the use of colour and the meaning of intention, which I claim are important aspects when aiming for emotional results. However I also reflect upon the fact that the communication remains individual and that it is therefore problematic to confirm success in this matter.Detta är ett undersökande arbete som vänder sig både inåt och utåt. Det är en djupdykning i Mark Rothkos konstnärskap som sker parallellt med en personlig reflektion. Inledningsvis handlar det om att arbeta i gränslandet mellan konst och design och hurdet kan se ut. I förlängningen handlar det om hur den konstnärliga historien kan fungera som inspiratör och vägledare för innebörd och uttryck i formgivningen. Genom att studera den abstrakta expressionismen och Mark Rothko söker jag svar på hur känslomässig kommunikation kan ske genom färg och form. Förutom litterär research utför jag också en praktiskt undersökning där jag använder måleriet som en metod för att förstå mitt studieobjekt; Mark Rothko. Målet är att översätta Mark Rothkos konst till min design. Det handlar om att studera, internalisera och applicera. Resultatet bjuder in till en diskussion om handlagets, färgens och intentionens betydelse för formgivningen, där jag hävdar att dessa aspekter är viktiga för ett emotionellt berörande resultat, men att kommunikationen förblir individuell.
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Miller, Shelby E. ""The Cult of Cézanne:" Marcel Duchamp, Clyfford Still, and Banksy." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu149471175808765.
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Roncone, Natalie Maria. "Jackson Pollock, 1930-1955 : the influence of the Old Masters." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/3048.
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The imagery in Jackson Pollock's three extant sketchbooks which date from c.1934-1939 is dependent on that of other artists, especially El Greco, Rubens and Tintoretto. By 1947 however, the painter achieved a mature synthesis, distinctly his, which influenced contemporary painting, and was seminal for the work of a number of artists of the succeeding era. This dissertation is an attempt to document the phases of Pollock's artistic style from the early 1930s through to the middle 1950s, and to investigate the forces which may have catalyzed his temperament and precipitated his late style. The early sketchbooks begun in c.1934 represent Pollock's engagement with the art of the Old Masters and the teaching techniques of Thomas Hart Benton that utilized works from the Renaissance. The third sketchbook from c.1937-1939 induced him to re-examine the work of the Old Masters in a dialectical approach which incorporated new masters with old, but remained preoccupied with the sacred imagery found in the first two books. It is a resolution of these seemingly opposing modes of representation which produced several influential paintings in the early 1940s, including Guardians of the Secret and Pasiphae. At the same time these works display structural emulations related to those of Old Master paintings that would become increasingly prominent in Pollock's art. The canvases of 1947-1950, produced in what is commonly termed the “Classic Poured Period,” appear to represent a quantum leap beyond the concerns of Old Master works and European precedents. By this point Pollock had developed a fluency and assurance in his use of color and line that seems to extend further than the studied paradigmatic repetitions of his early sketchbooks. However, despite the radically new technique his paintings still exhibit pictorial and formal infrastructures derived from Renaissance paintings which were absorbed into Pollock's new idiom with surprising ease. In 1951 Pollock enters what Francis V.O'Connor termed as ‘his fourth phase'. The Black paintings of 1951-1953 betray a further exploration and adaptation of Old Master ideas, both iconographic and aesthetic and were created in Triptychs and Diptychs, typical altarpiece formats. With these paintings Pollock's forms acquired a confident plasticity and invention derived from the sculptural practices of Michelangelo, and progressively fewer individual images are quoted verbatim. An understanding of Pollock's early preoccupation with old Master painting is essential to comprehend the formation of the aesthetics of much of his later art. Significantly the underlying infrastructure remains fixed to old Master precedents and it was precisely these models of Renaissance and Baroque art which became the medium through which his mature synthesis was achieved.
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Costello, Eileen Elizabeth. "Beyond the easel : the dissolution of abstract expressionist painting into the realm of architecture." 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/19840.
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A defining feature of American abstract expressionist painting is its enormous size and scale. Heroic ambition, the vast American landscape, and the sense of "something big" happening in American painting are often cited as determining factors in this phenomenon. This dissertation examines how Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman, and Mark Rothko not only painted large-scale canvases but, following trends in modern architecture, shifted their painting towards the construction of architectural environments, thus promoting the transformation of painting from a window in the wall to a wall without a window. The artist and architect Tony Smith, a close friend and colleague of these painters, played an active role in encouraging their interest in modern architecture. As a result of their investigations into the physical, as well as conceptual, limits of the canvas, these artists shifted the viewer’s experience from a perceptual experience of pictorial space to a physical encounter with actual space. In contradiction to the notion of the purely optical, one could describe this as a somatic viewing experience, tactile and active, which anticipated specific concerns of 1960s minimalism. This achievement redefines Pollock's, Newman's, and Rothko's legacy to the subsequent generation of artists and places their production into a broader historical framework.text
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Cheng, Po-Chun, and 鄭伯君. "The Study of drawing creations and the painting performance in Abstract Expressionism." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/24930120871651373775.
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The art of painting is to express the essence of the things by stepping back to the simplest form through the creative thought and memory of the artists. Thus, the artisst began to paint without a particular style, then it forms a new style throughout the time and life experiences. In order to know more in-depth knowledge of the geometric abstraction as the main purpose and its process, and its special painting techniques. The author starts to form base on the geometric formation to explore the vocabularies of his mind by the experiences do the artworks to create the patinings. At the same time, he uses his favorite oil paintings skill to create some of impressive and wonderful paintings.
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Cheng, Chia-Wen, and 鄭嘉紋. "Dreamland – the expressions of unconscious and conscious image in abstract painting." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/pmwm2p.
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Abstract Although the dream is not practical for people and out of reach, you and I should know the dream brings boundless hopes and imaginations to children. It gives children the motif to grow up with. It has been nearly six years since I taught in the primary school. In my daily teaching I get along with elementary students, who are innocent, lively and lovely. They made me understand happiness and the hope of life. Gradually my childlike innocence was waken up in me, which gave me a burst to fall in dream like a child and to weave my own dreamland. That is the reason why I start to compose the contours of dream. The main idea of this creation is to involve the inspirations derived from the behavior of children, which is also the exploration of images of my mind. In this creation I attempt to present various dreamlands in my work, which can make spectators feel like dreaming and returning to their childhood. This is what I wish to express in my painting. Additionally, this study investigates the thought of mind, the way of expression and the mapping of dreamland, The thesis composes four chapters. Chapter one is to explore the soul state, language it is and the actual situation, while creating works. Chapter two probes into behavior of painting, divided into themes, such as rhythm and metre, unity and variation, local and whole, imago and object. Chapter three discusses the relation between children''s paintings and self-creation, which is presented by unconscious and conscious images in abstract painting. Chapter four, investigate the relation between abstract paintings and self-creation and quote western masters'' work to compare with my work to express the form and meaning of self-creation.
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VihrenDimitrov and 劉偉嵐. "Expressionism East and West: Abstract Expressionism, Xie Yi and the Painting of Bada Shanren and Willem de Kooning." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/58457790946950709000.
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Messina, Philip. "Establishing 21st Century Expressionisim." 2014. http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/art_design_theses/148.
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Within my thesis I propose to establish the existence of what I call 21st century expressionism. This genre of art is an extension of the movement that began in 20th century post-war America. 21st century expressionists create works that are intended to promote emotional responses within the viewer. “The term ``expressionism'' can be used to describe various art forms but, in its broadest sense, it is used to describe any art that raises subjective feelings above objective observations. Its aim is to reflect the artists’ state of mind rather than the reality of the external world”. Lee Krasner and Tony Smith, represent prime examples of 20th century expressionists and, Etsuko Ishikawa and Beth Cavener Stichter represent artists of 21st century expressionism.
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RISTVEDT, MILLY MILDRED THELMA. "Reinhardt, Martin, Richter : Colour in the Grid of Contemporary Painting." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1974/6771.
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The objective of my thesis is to extend the scholarship on colour in painting by focusing on how it is employed within the structuring framework of the orthogonal grid in the paintings of three contemporary artists, Ad Reinhardt, Agnes Martin and Gerhard Richter. Form and colour are essential elements in painting, and within the “essentialist” grid painting, the presence and function of colour have not received the full discussion they deserve. Structuralist, post-structuralist and anthropological modes of critical analysis in the latter part of the twentieth century, framed by postwar disillusionment and skepticism, have contributed to the effective foreclosure of examination of metaphysical, spiritual and utopian dimensions promised by the grid and its colour earlier in the century.
Artists working with the grid have explored, and continue to explore the same eternally vexing problems and mysteries of our existence, but analyses of their art are cloaked in an atmosphere and language of rationalism. Critics and scholars have devoted their attention to discussing the properties of form, giving the behavior and status of colour, as a property affecting mind and body, little mention. The position of colour deserves to be re-dressed, so that we may have a more complete understanding of grid painting as a discrete kind of abstract painting.
Each of the three artists I have examined here employed colour and grid in strategies unique to their work and its purposes. Ad Reinhardt arrived at his 1960s “black” paintings out of a background that included strong political beliefs, resistance to the dominant strain of 1950s Abstract Expressionism, and a deep interest in eastern religions and Buddhism. Agnes Martin shared Reinhardt’s interest in Buddhism and eastern religions, but chose to move toward the light in the atmospheric colour of her paintings, speaking of the quest for perfection of the mind in her writings and interviews. Gerhard Richter’s colour charts, a longstanding major subset of the vast range of this prolific artist’s work, speak to a need to go beyond his love of painting to the ungraspable substance of colour itself.Thesis (Master, Art History) -- Queen's University, 2011-09-27 12:34:58.813
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Ernst, Nadine. "Wechselwirkungen der Moderne – über den gegenseitigen Einfluss von außereuropäischen und westlichen Kulturen in der modernen Kunst am Beispiel der indianischen Malerei." Doctoral thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/21.11130/00-1735-0000-0005-141F-3.
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Yandell, Ariana. "WARP/WEFT: AGNES MARTIN, TEXTILES, AND THE LINEAR EXPERIENCE." 2017. http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/art_design_theses/214.
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This essay is a study of Agnes Martin (1912-2004), a Canadian-born and American-based contemporary artist, and her earlier painting practice including, but not limited, to her work Falling Blue of 1963. The exploration of this piece and others frames Martin’s early work as a process of material exploration analogous to weaving and fiber art. This framing is enhanced by the friendship and professional exchange between Martin and artist Lenore Tawney (1907-2007). The textile lens, as explored in this paper, has been undeveloped compared to other approaches to Martin’s early work and practice.
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Katzin, Jeffrey James. "Experimentation, diversity, and feeling : Adolph Gottlieb’s career in painting reconsidered." 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/21233.
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Adolph Gottlieb’s (1903–1974) mature career in abstract painting has been described in previous scholarship in terms of three phases: the time of his Pictograph paintings, beginning in 1941; a period of transition primarily involving his Imaginary Landscape paintings, beginning in 1951; and the time of his Burst paintings, from 1956 until his death. Dividing the artist’s career into early, transitional, and late periods has provided scholars with a clear and tidy narrative as a basis for interpretations of his work. However, in this thesis I argue that this schematization, created in hindsight, has obscured the character of Gottlieb’s working process as it occurred in real time. By nature, Gottlieb would not have been content to produce only a few narrow varieties of painting over a thirty-year period. I thus advance a new conception of Gottlieb as an inventive and constantly adventurous artist.
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To make these claims, I examine Gottlieb’s written and spoken statements in order to define his central terminology (words like “feeling” and “self-discovery”) and to investigate his interests in myth and alchemy. I find that his work in painting was deeply intuitive and literally experimental—Gottlieb could not predict whether a painting would succeed until he had completed it, and so his career was an iterative process of painting, observing the results, and then painting again. I go on to consider Gottlieb’s paintings themselves as a record of how this experimental process functioned in practice. By presenting his diverse body of work in its full breadth, I demonstrate that the artist was not limited by his major styles, and indeed that he always presented himself with multiple possibilities. I conclude that Gottlieb’s work remains vital because he worked without an end goal or predetermined outcome in mind, and instead gave himself over to a continuous process of creativity and discovery.text
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Mladičová, Iva. "Jan Kotík 1916-2002 - monografie." Doctoral thesis, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-322931.
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1 Abstract A monograph on Jan Kotík (1916-2002) introduces both his art and theoretical work, it deals with a historical and cultural context of the now-defunct Czechoslovakia. Kotík's - an artist's, theoretician's, published author's, educator's - artwork enjoys a prominent position in the context of Czech art of the second half of 20th century. An art-historical assessment of artwork was based on Kotik's artwork inventory and on all the documentation on Kotik's life and art work archived in the Documentation Department of the Institute of Art History of the Academy of Sciences of the CR and in private archives in the CR and Berlin. The study is based on a method of organic combination of biographical data and art-historical data with quotation of Kotik's theoretical texts. An evolution of artist's work is demonstrated chronologically with the context to Czech and world art. The monograph includes chapters: "Father Pravoslav's Art Studio and Study Years", "Art Group 42", "Possibilities of Applied Art", "Painting-Object", "Stay in Berlin", "Returns".