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Thompson, Grant. "Limitlessness and the sublime illuminating notions : an exegesis submitted to Auckland University of Technology in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Art & Design, 2008 /." Click here to access this resource online, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10292/442.
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This project explores the basic tenets of abstract expressionism and is considered in relation to the idea of the sublime, limitlessness and the formless. In this research I am interested in investigating the progression from two-dimensional non-representational painting, through experimentation with light mediating materials to projection of the painting via the medium of film. Light is used to intensify the image with a view to expand the viewer’s awareness and understanding of the sublime. The research seeks to find ways that allow the viewer to explore the feeling of uncertainty and the sensation of wonderment. Through an ephemeral spaciousness that has no boundaries, the spectator is encouraged through contemplation to transform their experiences of the finite in order to approach the infinite and the sublime.
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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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Coffey, Roland M. "Expressionism and Ethnography: Max Pechstein in Nidden and Palau." VCU Scholars Compass, 2015. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4004.
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This thesis offers a new way to conceptualize Hermann Max Pechstein’s “primitivism” as a kind of ethnographic “primitivism.” By creating a constellation that connects Pechstein’s Nidden and Palau-based projects, Paul Gauguin’s “primitivist” aesthetic, and the research produced by German ethnographers, I argue that the “documentary” nature of Pechstein’s work paradoxically merges the “scientific” aspects of ethnography with his, and more generally, other Expressionists’ interest in the “primitive.” In addition, the following work demonstrates that the purportedly “scientific” representations and visual accounts of South Seas natives that ethnographers like Otto Finsch produced in the late 1800s and early 1900s heavily and problematically relied on an aestheticization of these foreign people that renders them as decorative, “exotic” objects, which are in many ways subjugated to the gaze of and “on display” for the Westerners examining them. This thesis ultimately focuses on how Pechstein’s representations of people from Palau effectively combine the style typical of most Expressionists and an impulse towards ethnographic depiction not seen in the work of his Brücke colleagues.
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Adamowicz, Emily. "Viennese Expressionism : from sickness to spirituality in the new aesthetic theory 1909-1913." Thesis, McGill University, 2007. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=99567.
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Viennese Expressionism 1909-1913 encompasses parallel evolutions in the disciplines of visual arts and music. Ideas from fin-de-siecle Vienna's intellectual milieu inspired the awakening of the Modern artist, from Ur-schrei to the formation of a new aesthetic theory. In this thesis, I examine the origin of iconic Expressionist aesthetic values and their technical expression in works by Arnold Schoenberg, Egon Schiele, Oskar Kokoschka, and Wassily Kandinsky. Topics covered are divided into two broad thematic categories whose central tenets originate in preoccupations with, on the one hand, an emerging understanding of the unconscious and psychic pathology; and on the other hand, the metaphysical components to art and the human experience: sickness and spirituality. While it is not possible to compare directly art and musical works, common ideas and principles provide conceptual intersections that unify the disciplines in the realization of a collective artistic vision.Le mouvement expressionniste viennois (1909-1913) recouvre des courantsparallèles dans les disciplines picturales et musicales. Les idées provenant des milieuxintellectuels du fin-de-siècle viennois ont inspiré le réveil de l'artiste moderne, depuis leUr-schrei jusqu'à la formulation d'une nouvelle théorie esthétique. Ce mémoire examinel'origine des valeurs esthétiques chères au mouvement expressionniste, ainsi que lestechniques utilisées pour exprimer ces valeurs dans les oeuvres d'Arnold Schoenberg,d'Egon Schiele, d'Oskar Kokoschka, et de Wassily Kandinsky. Les thèmes abordés sontdivisés en deux grandes catégories dont les fondements centraux émanent depréoccupations reliées, d'une part, à une compréhension croissante de l'inconscient et dela psychopathologie, et, d'autre part, aux aspects métaphysiques de l'art et de l'existencehumaine: la maladie et la spiritualité. Bien qu'il ne soit pas possible de comparerdirectement des oeuvres picturales et musicales, l'existence de principes et de thèmescommuns entraîne une confluence conceptuelle qui unifie ces disciplines dans laréalisation d'une vision artistique collective.
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Barry, Marie Porterfield. "Lesson 17 Part 2: Reactions to the Modern World-Post-Impressionism and Expressionism." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2020. https://dc.etsu.edu/art-appreciation-oer/19.
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This lessons covers the difference between impressionism and expressionism. Post-impressionism is represented through artworks by Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Paul Cèzanne, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Expressionism is represented through artworks by Edvard Munch, Henri Matisse, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, and Vassily Kandinsky.
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Watrous, Shawn. "Undersound: An Investigation of Painting as a form of Expression." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1366359903.
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Kennedy, Shane Michael. "Expressionist Art and Drama Before, During, and After the Weimar Republic." PDXScholar, 2015. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2508.
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Expressionism was the major literary and art form in Germany beginning in the early 20th century. It flourished before and during World War I and continued to be the dominant art for of the Early Weimar Republic. By 1924, Neue Sachlichkeit replaced Expressionism as the dominant art form in Germany. Many Expressionists claimed they were never truly apart of Expressionism. However, in the periodization and canonization many of these young artists are labeled as Expressionist.
This thesis examines the periodization and canonization of Expression in art, drama, and film and proves that Expressionism began much earlier than scholars believe and ended much later than 1924. This thesis examines the conflicts in Germany that led to Expressionism and which authors and artists influenced Expressionists. It will also show that after Expressionism ceased to be the dominant art form in Germany, many former Expressionists continued to use expressionistic form in their works but ceased to use expressionistic content. This thesis argues that both the periodization and canonization of Expressionism should be expanded to include all works that may be classified as having expressionistic form.
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Murphy, Christopher Eric. "Reconstructing paradigms of expression." Click here to access thesis, 2007. http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/archive/spring2007/christopher_e_murphy/Murphy_Christopher_E_200701_mfa.pdf.
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Thesis (M.F.A.)--Georgia Southern University, 2007."A thesis submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Georgia Southern University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Fine Arts." In Art, under the direction of Patricia J. Walker. ETD. Electronic version approved: May 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 37-38)
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Fay, Deane Colin. "Spirit, vision, heart /." Online version of thesis, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/10934.
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John, Chrisilda. "Fusion of dance and painting in Kathakali." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1999.
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This thesis explores how fusion of dance and painting is a creative process in the traditional Indian theatrical dance of Kathakali. The thesis argues that fusion is a powerful creative process in this art form, and identifies (in Chapters 2, 3 and 4) the goal, conditions and techniques that contribute to this process. This study was triggered in part by my own visual practice. As an Expressionist artist I attempt to fuse dance and painting. I locate the notion of fusion in the Expressionist movement and in the work of three contemporary artists, including my own. The devices used in Kathakali would illuminate the artist who is engaged in the fusion of dance and painting.
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Steele, Nancy Joanne. "Etched images of the human form in relation to society and environment." Virtual Press, 1995. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/941715.
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The vitality of the human figure has been an unending source of curiosity for artists from the beginning to now. Although many artists have focused their creativity to searching for the perfect, in fact, beautiful, human form, others have striven to convey the human experience within the spirit of their own era. The latter is true of this creative project, which has addressed the following problem: hog: could large-scale intaglio printmaking be used to 02arify the negative impact our rigid contemporary notion of beauty can have on individual women? The project was inspired by the work of Kaethe Kollwitz, German artist of the early 20th century whc used her technical drawing skills to translate her knowledge of war and famine shattered women into forceful lithographs and etchings. The insight she Portrayed vividly combined her intensely personal vision the Vicious events of her times: social commentary at its finest.The significance of the project has been, first of all, its benefit to myself, the artist. The journey which I undertook through historical research on Kollwitz; conceptual investigation of women and rigid norms for beauty; and extension of my technical expertise as an etcher-has produced insights about creating art that are invaluable to the mature artist. The second significance involves the viewer, whom I hope reconsiders the images of women displayed in contemporary society.The project’s five large-scale etchings of the female figure portray in a series my ideas about roles women are expected to assume in contemporary American society. These ideas unfolded especially during the creation of the first and second etchings.The report of the project deals extensively with the drawing and etching techniques used for each print; a description of each of the works; the ideas which inspired the content of the works; how these ideas were transformed into visual images; and the technical competencies that I acquired while working through each plate.Department of Art
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Kappers, Michael. "VIRTUALLY ABSTRACT." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2008. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4011.
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My most recent body of work frees me from traditional animation and graphic design principles that had become second nature in my creative practice over years of commercial work in industry. I now find myself unconsciously creating shape and form without a preconceived vision of the final outcome. This allows for a free-flowing approach to my canvas. The canvas in which my forms are created is virtual space and can be described as an infinite cube. The first step I take in each of my pieces is creating a cube with the center residing at Cartesian coordinates 0,0,0. From there, I make the decision either to subdivide the cube into sections or extrude faces from the cube. In either case, I begin to see the possibilities in which the form can take. Some forms are organic and rhythmic while others become machined and rigid. At this stage, color and light are not a part of the equation.M.F.A.
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Studio Art and the Computer MFA
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Goodhue, Laura. "Creative Expression: An Imminent Clash as Experienced by Three Artists." Thesis, Boston College, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/4427.
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Thesis advisor: Judith BookbinderThe Nazis arranged an exhibition of "degenerate" art (Entartete Kunst), shown in Munich in 1937 to insult and degrade artists who are recognized today as some of the most talented artists of the twentieth century. The success of the exhibition affected each artist in a different manner. Many fled Germany and ventured to the United States while others unwilling to leave their homeland suppressed their creative impulses for a life of fear and psychological torture in Germany. The horrific and irreversible effects on the German artists and culture can only be adequately discussed in the context of the time period preceding the exhibition. The movement toward abstraction and expression in art clashed with the rise of Nazi aesthetics to culminate in the exhibition of "degenerate" art. The lives of three artists Ernst Barlach, Max Beckmann and Oskar Schlemmer are detailed in this paper
Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2005
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Fine Arts
Discipline: College Honors Program
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Robillard, Madeleine. "Une oeuvre de l'affect." Thèse, Chicoutimi : Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 1995. http://theses.uqac.ca.
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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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Strahl, Lisa Beth. "Gender Construction and Manifestation in the Art of Elaine de Kooning." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2009. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/44952.
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As a woman whose career lifted off during the era of Abstract Expressionism, Elaine de Kooning is precariously positioned between her gender and her career. She began painting in the midst of a male-dominated movement and in later years continued to use very masculine themes in her art; however, her gender sets her apart from her mostly male colleagues during the Abstract Expressionist period. The mid-century expectation of machismo and masculinity shaped Elaine de Kooning’s art and career, and there is a tension within her art as she tried to fit the established (male) persona of the typical Abstract Expressionist artist while also maintaining a female identity. As the wife of Willem de Kooning, Elaine is most often discussed with respect to this relationship. Her name is infrequently mentioned in scholarship without reference to Willem, and her contribution to art history has only recently been studied in any length in Jane Bledsoe’s Elaine de Kooning (1992) and in a series of smaller gallery publications. Furthermore, Elaine has become recognized and respected, in some cases, more for her critical writings for Art News during the 1950s and 1960s than for her art. She was an artist turned art critic, and this crossover has further complicated the scholarly attention devoted to her. Elaine consistently revisited male-inspired subject matter: in her portraiture she painted predominantly male sitters; in her cave painting-inspired work she reflected a society of primitive male hunters; in her series of sports paintings she depicted male basketball and baseball players in dynamic postures; in her Bacchus series she investigated a male god and the vitality of the statue’s writhing male musculature; and in her bull and bison series she worked with the clichéd animalistic symbol of masculine strength and virility. These subjects, combined with the ejaculatory style of Abstract Expressionism’s loose brushwork and vibrant swirling colors, provide a unique contrast to the artist, herself, as a female personality.
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Vacquier, Stéphane. "Rebeyrolle, Paul (1926-2005) : peintre français des IVe et Ve républiques." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015AIXM3116.
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Tels que l’historiographie de l’art les a enregistrées, l’œuvre de Paul Rebeyrolle et sa carrière (1945-2005) posent question au-delà de cette définition stricte, base factuelle d’une hypothétique notice d’encyclopédie : qu’est-ce qu’un peintre français des IVe et Ve républiques ? Paul Rebeyrolle est connu pour être méconnu, reconnu, toujours, comme un excellent peintre, loué par certains comme l’un des plus importants de la période, en France, mais demeure réduit à la portion congrue de l’histoire de l’art contemporain français, lorsque celle-ci juge bon de le mentionner. Il a pourtant bénéficié d’un succès précoce, dans les années 1950, dans le sillage d’un Bernard Lorjou ou, surtout, d’un Bernard Buffet, avant de subir un désaveu équivalent. Un marchand aussi important qu’Aimé Maeght et des préfaciers aussi renommés que J.-P. Sartre ou M. Foucault n’y auront rien changé. En cela, il est exemplaire de tout un pan de l’art français qui, avec la Ve république et sa politique culturelle, semble avoir été déclassé pour un certain nombre de raisons qu’il reste encore à évaluer : différends esthétiques, mésententes plastiques, dénis hérités de la querelle des abstraits et des figuratifs, non-dits liés à la question de l’engagement politique de l’artiste, imprécisions ou partis-pris critiques et légèreté des commentaires journalistiques friands de poncifs... Autant de malentendus qui ont contribué à brouiller la juste appréciation de son œuvre et l’ont tenu éloigné d’une véritable reconnaissance institutionnelleThe way they’ve been retained by Art historiography, Paul Rebeyrolle’s work and his carreer (1945-2005) appear to be problematic beyond this strict definition, factual basis for an hypothetical encyclopedia entry : what defines a French painter under the 4th and 5th republics ? Paul Rebeyrolle is well-knowed for being under-estimated, always acknowledged as a great painter, sometimes even praised as one of the most important painters of that period, in France, but still limited to the smallest share of the French history of contemporary art, when this one finds it appropriate to mention it.Yet he benefited of an early success, during the 50’s, in the wake of painters such as Bernard Lorjou and especially Bernard Buffet, before enduring a similar disavowal. An art dealer as important as Aimé Maeght and preface writers as renowned as Jean-Paul Sartre or Michel Foucault didn’t make any difference. Thus, he appears to be paradigmatic of an entire part of French art which, under the 5th republic and its cultural policy, seems to have been downgraded for a certain number of reasons that still needs to be evaluated : aesthetic disagreements, plastic discords, denial inherited from the abstract and figurative painters’ quarrel, unsaid things about the artist’s political commitment, art critics’ vagueness and preconceived opinions, journalistic frivolity fond of clichés... As many misunderstandings that led to interfere with a fair appraisal regarding his work and prevented him from ever getting a real institutional recognition
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Shah, Diti. "An abstract expression of September 11, 2001." Texas A&M University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/4448.
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Historical events captured in an abstract manner have the ability to produce a
profound effect on the emotions. The purpose of this research is to create a time-based
computer media work, using dialogue from playwright Anne Nelson's The Guys, based
on the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City, with
emphasis on visual imagery, particularly the use of line and color, to enhance the
dramatic and emotional content of the piece. The stylistic direction of the thesis work is
greatly influenced by selected works of abstract expressionists Robert Motherwell and
Franz Kline, whose artwork was shaped by the social backdrop of World War II.
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Carrasco, Clare. "The Most Expressionist of All the Arts: Programs, Politics, and Performance in Critical Discourse about Music and Expressionism, c.1918-1923." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2016. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc862862/.
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This dissertation investigates how German-language critics articulated and publicly negotiated ideas about music and expressionism in the first five years after World War I. A close reading of largely unexplored primary sources reveals that "musical expressionism" was originally conceived as an intrinsically musical matter rather than as a stylistic analog to expressionism in other art forms, and thus as especially relevant to purely instrumental rather than vocal and stage genres. By focusing on critical reception of an unlikely group of instrumental chamber works, I elucidate how the acts of performing, listening to, and evaluating "expressionist" music were enmeshed in the complexities of a politicized public concert life in the immediate postwar period. The opening chapters establish broad music-aesthetic and sociopolitical contexts for critics' postwar discussions of "musical expressionism." After the first, introductory chapter, Chapter 2 traces how art and literary critics came to position music as the most expressionist of the arts based on nineteenth-century ideas about the apparently unique ontology of music. Chapter 3 considers how this conception of expressionism led progressive-minded music critics to interpret expressionist music as the next step in the historical development of absolute music. These critics strategically—and controversially—portrayed Schoenberg's "atonal" polyphony as a legitimate revival of "linear" polyphony in fugues by Bach and late Beethoven. Chapter 4 then situates critical debates about the musical and cultural value of expressionism within broader struggles to construct narratives that would explain Germany's traumatic defeat in the Great War and abrupt restructuring as a fragile democratic republic. Against this backdrop, the later chapters explore critics' responses to public performances of specific "expressionist" chamber works. Chapter 5 traces reactions to a provocative performance of Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony, op. 9 (1906) at the Berlin Volksbühne in February 1920. Chapter 6 examines the interplay of musical-aesthetic and sociopolitical issues in critical reception of several postwar concerts that juxtaposed Schoenberg's "expressionist" Chamber Symphony with Franz Schreker's "impressionist" Chamber Symphony (1916). Chapter 7 considers how critics situated performances of Alexander Zemlinsky's Second String Quartet, op. 15 (1916) in relation to ideas about "expressionism" in music. Finally, Chapter 8 considers critical reception of performances of Béla Bartók's Second String Quartet, op. 17 (1917) in the context of two concert series sponsored by "expressionist" journals: the Anbruch-Abende in Vienna (1918) and the Melos-Abende in Berlin (1922 and 1923). Each of these final chapters uses contemporary criticism as a vehicle for a close reading of the relevant musical work, resulting in a portrait of "expressionist" music that is both contextually and musically nuanced.
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Cardoso, Renata Gomes. "A pintura de Anita Malfatti nos periodos iniciais de sua trajetoria : proposta de revisão a partir da analise de obras." [s.n.], 2007. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/279121.
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Orientador: Nelson Alfredo AguilarDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas
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Resumo: Este trabalho analisa algumas pinturas dos períodos iniciais da trajetória de Anita Malfatti. Para tal propósito, toma-se como base a análise formal, procurado adicionar a essa reflexão uma revisão das fontes sobre a artista e sobre a arte moderna internacional, das quais são levantadas algumas questões fundamentais, que marcaram o debate sobre a sua obra no início do século XX e as consecutivas abordagens sobre a artista ao longo da história da arte brasileira
Abstract: This work analyses some paintings of the early periods of Anita Malfatti¿s career. For this aim, it based on the formal analyses, but includes in this reflection a review of the sources about the artist and international modern art, detaching from it some relevant questions, that marked the debate about her work in the beginning of 20th century and the consecutive approaches of the artist throughout the history of Brazilian art
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Harmon, Susan Lee. "Poiesis." Click here to access thesis, 2007. http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/archive/summer2007/susan_l_harmon/Harmon_Susan_L_200708_MFA.pdf.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Georgia Southern University, 2007."A thesis submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Georgia Southern University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Fine Arts." Under the direction of Patricia Walker. ETD. Electronic version approved: December 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 55-56) and appendix.
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Alvarez, Andrea. "Art Criticism, Scholarly Interpretation, and Curatorial Intent: A Reassessment of the 1998 Jackson Pollock Retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art." VCU Scholars Compass, 2012. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/439.
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In 1998, the Museum of Modern Art held a retrospective exhibition of artworks by Jackson Pollock. Curators Kirk Varnedoe and Pepe Karmel worked in an art historical context that had been significantly shaped by the early critical writings by Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg. The curators’ stated intention for the exhibition installation was to provide “a fresh chance for new generations of artists to come to terms with a legendary figure” and to enable “the broader public to reassess a quintessentially American artist in light of three decades of new scholarship,” without “ hewing to any particular critical dogma.” Despite this curatorial intention, this thesis examines the ways in which the retrospective inscribed Greenberg’s and Rosenberg’s theories, while disregarding subsequent scholarship that did not explicitly inscribe or align with the mid-century criticism in its account of Jackson Pollock.
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Holaday, Troy A. "Transcending inaccessibility : reassessing the Action Painters in the light of rhetorical theory." Virtual Press, 2002. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1237767.
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This interdisciplinary thesis investigates the Action Painting movement using rhetorical theories and models with the intent of producing a higher level of understanding of the paintings and increasing their approachability. A brief history of nonobjective painting, the technique of automatism, and the Action Painting movement is given. Following this, the semiotic character of the visual elements within Action Paintings is discussed and their behavior catalogued through descriptive analysis, using Kenneth Pike's theory of tagmemics. The work culminates in a comparison of painted gestures to conversational implicatures and guidelines are given for establishing meaningful and relevant dialogues with the paintings, presupposing the importance of an intangible context as defined by the reconstruction of authorial intent and anticipated readership.Department of English
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Bryan, Sarah M. "African Imagery and Blacks in German Expressionist Art from the Early Twentieth Century." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1353179467.
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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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Slivo, Yalda. "Den rörliga bildens formlöshet : En studie av den rörliga bilden." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-148312.
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Denna studie syftar till att studera den rörliga bildens historia och relation till måleriet utifrån de två modernistiska konstnärliga rörelserna minimalism och abstrakt expressionism.This study aims at understanding the history and relation between the moving image and two modernistic art movements, minimalism and abstract expressionism.
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Freeman, Christopher John. "Are chemical defenses allocated within sponges to defend regions most at risk to predator attack?" Click here to access thesis, 2007. http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/archive/spring2007/christopher_j_freeman/Freeman_Christopher_J_200701_MS.pdf.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Georgia Southern University, 2007."A thesis submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Georgia Southern University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Science." Under the direction of Daniel F. Gleason. ETD. Electronic version approved: May 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 73-83) and appendices.
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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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TOMITA, MIDORI. "Woodcuts 1946-1953 BY Kōsaka Gajin (1877-1953): The Discovery of Children's Art in Japan and German Expressionism." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1054232744.
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Tomita, Midori. "Woodcuts 1946-1953 by Kosaka Gajin (1877-1953) the discovery of children's art in Japan an German expressionism /." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=1054232744.
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Erminaitė, Giedrė. "Tarp meilės ir priklausomybės/ Stokholmo sindromas / odi de amo." Bachelor's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2012. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2012~D_20120629_122857-19895.
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Tapybos darbų kolekcijoje nagrinėjama socialinė, psichologinė problematika, kur formų, spalvų, dėmių ir kitų detalių visuma virsta tam tikra ženklų sankaupa, paveiki psichologinėmis formomis. Visa tai transformuojasi į trijų darbų kolekciją : " TARP MEILĖS IR PRIKLAUSOMYBĖS/STOKHOLMO SINDROMAS1/ODI DE AMO2" - tai psichologinė emocinė sąvoka reiškianti, įkaito priklausomybę nuo kito žmogaus arba tam tikras dvilypiškumo sąsajas. Personažai, turintys skirtingus vaidmenis, pvz., lyčių stereotipus,”<...> kai moteris sąmoningai tapatinasi vien su savo moteriškumu ir ignoruoja animus (t.y vyriškumo) energiją, jai sunku būti objektyviai, diferencijuoti, vertinti, atsirinkti, orientuotis pasaulyje. Visas šias funkcijas ji perleidžia vyrui ir dėl to yra priklausoma nuo jo <...>”3. Tai rodo vyro ir moters, skirtingus simbolinius opozicinius lyčių skirtumus. Vyro - dominavimą, valdžią, moters – paklusnumą. Taigi trapios, dramatiškai inscenizuotos moteriškos figūros, pasimetusios uždaroje erdvėje, apsuptos vyriškumo, parodo „<...>žmogaus izoliaciją ir kovą, o kartu nuolatinį poreikį grįžti į pradžią ir pradėti iš naujo<...>“.4 Darbų ciklui sukurti naudojamos skaitmeninės fotografijos, eskizai, tapybiniai bandymai. Remiantis sukaupta vizualine medžiaga, eskizavimu, sukurta trijų darbų kolekcija, aliejinės tapybos bei graffiti technologijomis ant medžio plokštės.In collection of paintings, topic and expression, analyses the social, psychological problems, where forms, colors, spots and other parts of a whole becomes particular aggregate of signs, influencing psychological forms. This entire are being transformed into a collection of three works " between love and addiction / STOCKHOLM SYNDROME / ODI DE AMO - this is a psychological concept of emotion which means dependence on other person or particular links of ambivalent. Personages have different roles, such as, stereotypes of gender, " ... when a woman deliberately identifies themselves only with their own femininity and ignores the animus (i.e., masculinity ) energy, it is difficult to be objective, to differentiate, evaluate, select and oriented in the world. All these functions that she gives to man and for this she is dependable on him <..>. This represents men’s and woman's different symbolical oppositions genders differences. Man's - dominance, authority, women’s - humility. So fragile, staged a dramatic female figures, lost in an enclosed space surrounded by the male, shows " ... the human isolation and fight, and together the constant need to go back to the beginning and start over ... ".4 To create a cycle of works are being used digital photography’s, sketches, and tests of paintings. Sustaining stored visual materials, sketching, was created a collection of three works, oily paintings and technologies of graphities on panel of wood.
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Trapp, Elizabeth J. "Cy Twombly's 'Ferragosto' Series." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1276609006.
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Tunstall, Lucy Suzannah. "Vision and visual art in Sylvia Plath's 'Ariel' and last poems." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/24401.
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This dissertation is concerned with Sylvia Plath's late works. Engaging with critical discussion of what constitutes the corpus of Ariel, I show that an appreciation of the editorial history reveals the beginning of a third book (the last poems), and opens up those difficult texts to fresh enquiry. Recent work in Plath studies has focused on visual art. Kathleen Connors and Sally Bayley's Eye Rhymes examines Plath’s own artwork in ‘an attempt to answer the question, How did Plath arrive at Ariel? (1) I contribute to that discussion, but also ask the questions, How did Plath leave Ariel behind and arrive at the even more remarkable last poems, and how did visual art enable those journeys? I argue that Ariel’s characteristically lucid style is informed by the dismantling of depth perspective in Post-Impressionist painting, and by the colour theory and pedagogy of the Bauhaus teachers. My work is underpinned by an appreciation of Plath’s unique cultural moment in mid-century East Coast America. I show how Plath’s knowledge of the theories, practice and iconic images of visual art, from the old masters to the Post-Impressionists, offered new possibilities for stylistic development. Working with archival materials including annotated works from Plath’s personal library and drafts of her poems, as well as published material, I examine the synthesis of visual and literary influences. Demonstrating specific textual relations between Plath and the work of Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot and W. B. Yeats, as well as other poets, I show that Plath’s visual poetics combine influences from the modern poets with her New Critical training and with painting and sculpture. I offer new readings of rarely discussed poems, such as ‘Totem’, ‘The Munich Mannequins’ and ‘Child’, as well as fresh insights into the well known works, ‘Tulips’, ‘The Moon and the Yew Tree’, ‘Fever 103º’, and ‘Edge’.
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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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McColm, Donna. "Opticality and the Work of Morris Louis (1912-1962)." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/2180.
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This thesis investigates the work of Morris Louis (1912-1962) in relation to ‘opticality’, a theory developed by the prominent American art critic Clement Greenberg. Between the late 1930s and 1950s, Greenberg developed a comprehensive argument concerning the opticality, or the optical illusion, of abstract painting. This theory influenced common approaches towards Abstract Expressionist painting during the 1940s and 1950s, culminating in Greenberg’s writing on ‘Colourfield’ painting in major texts of the 1960s such as ‘Louis and Noland’ (1960). Through research into the development of Morris Louis’ technique, including several of his major series as well as lesser known works, this thesis argues that our understanding of Louis’ work has been constricted by a narrow perception of the opticality of his 'stain' paintings, and explores Louis' technique in light of alternative interpretations of his work.
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McColm, Donna. "Opticality and the Work of Morris Louis (1912-1962)." University of Sydney, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/2180.
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Master of PhilosophyThis thesis investigates the work of Morris Louis (1912-1962) in relation to ‘opticality’, a theory developed by the prominent American art critic Clement Greenberg. Between the late 1930s and 1950s, Greenberg developed a comprehensive argument concerning the opticality, or the optical illusion, of abstract painting. This theory influenced common approaches towards Abstract Expressionist painting during the 1940s and 1950s, culminating in Greenberg’s writing on ‘Colourfield’ painting in major texts of the 1960s such as ‘Louis and Noland’ (1960). Through research into the development of Morris Louis’ technique, including several of his major series as well as lesser known works, this thesis argues that our understanding of Louis’ work has been constricted by a narrow perception of the opticality of his 'stain' paintings, and explores Louis' technique in light of alternative interpretations of his work.
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Frisk, Mattias. "En Studie i Rött : Hur beskrivs, uppfattas och kopplas färg samman med innehåll i Mark Rothkos abstrakta målningar?" Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Culture and Communication, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-16609.
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Undersökning av färgen i förhållande till innehåll i Mark Rothkos abstrakta verk. Studien innefattar en undersökning i hur man skriver om färg i anslutning till Rothkos abstrakta målningars innehåll och huruvida färg kan avgöra betydelser.
A study about color in relationship to content in Mark Rothko’s abstract paintings. It includes a research in how people write about color when discussing Mark Rothko´s paintings and how that is related to content. It also looks at color in relationship to meaning.
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Palou, 1961. "Luís Claramunt. Cuaderno de Bitácora." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/668217.
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La tesis trata de la extensa, valiosa y desconocida obra del singular pintor Luis Claramunt, (Barcelona 1951- Zarautz 2000). La obra se ha analizado y clasificado a través de la investigación llevada a cabo en el archivo del propio artista, archivo cedido al MACBA (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona) por su familia, con motivo de la exposición antológica que el Museo le dedicó en el año 2012. La tesis también incorpora los testimonios de personas de diferentes ámbitos de su entorno. Con este material se ha realizado una personal clasificación de su pintura en tres etapas y trece series temáticas. Series ordenadas cronológicamente y contextualizadas en el panorama artístico internacional, a las que se incorporan dibujos, fotografías, artículos de prensa, los textos de los críticos del momento, y los del propio artista. Las series también se acompañan de los testimonios de la familia, amigos y galeristas. Voces que sitúan la obra en el contexto en el que fue creada. El resultado es un bricolaje de documentos, muchos de ellos inéditos, de diferente origen, índole y formato, que permiten percibir el peculiar y rico mundo del artista, su visión plasmada en su obra, su mirada, su vocación de narrador. En esta recopilación adquiere un especial interés el estudio del contenido y significado de sus libros autoeditados, sus documentos más personales e intimistas que realizó en la última etapa de su vida. La clasificación de la obra, la exploración en la vida de Luis Claramunt y el análisis de la forma y contenido de sus cuadernos, son las herramientas utilizadas para presentar la obra y el artista y así tratar de aventurar una interpretación particular de las líneas que siguen sus trabajos, presentados buscando su procedencia en su particular cuaderno de bitácora.The scope of this thesis is to give insight on the extensive, valuable and relatively unknown artwork of the singular painter Luis Claramunt (Barcelona 1951-Zarautz 2000). Such artwork has been analysed and classified after carrying out an investigation into the archives of the artist, which were transferred to MACBA (Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona) by the family when in 2012 the museum held an anthological exhibition. In this thesis it can also be found the testimonies of relevant people from the different circles of the artist. With such material the artwork has been classified into three stages and thirteen thematical series. Such series are sorted chronologically and contextualized with the international artistic panorama, which include drawings, photographs, press articles, critical writings of the time, as well as those of the artist himself. Along with the series, testimonies of relatives, friends and gallerists can also be found. The result yields a vast number of documents, a significant amount of which had never been published, from different origins, nature and format that allows the reader to perceive the unique world of the artist. Within this recompilation, it is compellingly interesting the study of the content and meaning of the artist's self-published books, the most intimate element of his artwork, developed during the latter stage of his life. The methodology used to present the artwork and the artist includes the classification of the artwork, research into the Luis Claramunt's life and analysis of form and content, this approach allows a unique interpretation of the tendencies followed by his pieces and presents it looking far its origins in the artist's particular logbook.
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Younge, James Gavin Forrest. "The mirror and the square : a study of ideology within contemporary art systems with special reference to the American avant-garde in the period 1933-1953." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/16370.
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Bibliography: pages 232-240.This dissertation argues that abstract art is not ideologically neutral. In spite of many artists' anti-fascist stance early in their careers, the mantle of neutrality was assumed as a reaction to the protracted struggle between the two major ideologies confronting artists living in Europe and the United States of America in the period 1933-1953, namely capitalism and communism. These ideologies were not peripheral to artists lives, but were actively debated by both artists and intellectuals and resulted in the establishment of powerful cultural organisations. The ensuing growth in prestige and influence of left-wing artist's organisations was countered by a campaign which included direct suppression of left-wing artists as well as a form of ideological control. This control was vested in what has been called the specifics of patronage and is reflected in the establishment of the Arts Council in Britain and the private art museums in the United States. Changes in the art market have meant that, together with dealers and critics, these institutions wielded almost complete economic control over artists. The prevailing ideology of liberal humanism, which glorified individualism and defined democracy as a middle ground between the left and the right, favoured the development of a seemingly apolitical abstract art style. Analysis of the demise of the Artists International Association and the American Artist's Congress supports the conclusion that the figurative tradition lost prestige as a result of the stigma attached to Socialist Realism and the idealised realism demanded by National Socialism in Germany. Account is also taken of the attempt by well-positioned and influential commentators to identify all forms of realism with totalitarianism. It is not surprising therefore, that it was commonly believed that to paint in an abstract modern style was to strike a blow against fascism. In the same way that realism was identified with the regimentation of Soviet society, the avant-gardes' abstract experiments came to symbolize democracy. Drawing on the texts of writers, critics, artists and theorists, this dissertation shows that the force of the identification of progressive realism with totalitarianism, prepared the way for acceptance of the idea that freedom of expression epitomised freedom in general. In this way, anti-Stalinism and the post-war liberal philosophy of individual freedom, coupled with a search for 'essences' and the 'universal', directed artists inward to the medium of art as relevant subject-matter. This dissertation argues that this identification was ideologically motivated in respect to the balance of social and political power in America.
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Frisk, Mattias. "Bilden av den andra bilden : - en undersökning i manligt och kvinnligt uttryck med den abstrakta expressionismen som studieobjekt." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Culture and Communication, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-19285.
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Uppsatsen syftar till att undersöka huruvida begrepp som maskulint och feminint kan uppfattas i den nonfigurativa bilden. Med exempel ur den abstrakta expressionismen studeras detta utifrån genus och semiotisk teori. Även konstvärldens roll i producerandet av genus undersöks. En mindre enkätundersökning och bildanalys ingår i studien.
This thesis purpose is to examine whether notions as masculine and feminine can be understood in a nonfigurative picture. Thru gender theories and semiotics some examples from the Abstract Expressionist movement are studied. The art world’s participation in construction of gender is also examined. A picture analysis supported by a small survey is also included in the study.
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Terjesen, Lori Ann Martin. "Collecting the Brücke: Their Prints in Three American Museums, A Case Study." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1291164225.
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Click, Sarah D. "Art Song by Turn-of-the-Century Female Composers." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1993. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278468/.
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Whereas conditions have existed for many centuries which served to exclude or marginalize female participation in music, many women have written compositions of musical worth sufficient to justify their contemporary performance. Although most women composers wrote works more fitting for the "salon" than for the concert hall at the turn of the century, Boulanger and Mahler are representative of the few women composers whose complex approach to art song fell within the mainstream of the genre. Many of their accompaniments attain a level of technical difficulty not previously found in women composers' writing. They offer an interesting comparison between nationalities and styles in that they both favored Symbolist texts. However, each represents a different side of the coin in her musical interpretation of Symbolism: Boulanger, Impressionism, and Mahler, Expressionism. In addition, even though their styles involve opposite musical expressions, they both show a strong influence of Wagner in their writing. This study includes background on turn-of-the-century music and musicians encompassing the role of art song among women composers. Symbolism is addressed as it applies to the poets selected by the composers, followed by information regarding the specific musical representation of Symbolist texts in the composers' art songs. The chapter of analysis serves as a means to guide musical decisions in the actual performance of the works. The conclusion briefly discusses performance practice issues and the possibility of a turn-of-the-century feminine aesthetic.
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McKeon, Joseph Michael. "Constructuing the Category Entartete Kunst: The Degenerate Art Exhibition of 1937 and Postmodern Historiography." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1142622901.
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Walter, Christopher D. "On Yonder Mountain." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2012. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/art_design_theses/112.
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The road to becoming an artist is paved with much confusion as we try to mold our brains into understanding abstract concepts and ideas. I became fascinated with how people perceive art, in particular, southern males that have no previous knowledge of art history or desire to learn. I contemplated long and hard about this and asked myself the question, “What if they did want to understand art?” The only difference between my brethren and I is this desire to pursue this seemingly foreign world. By creating an imaginary world and culture based on my own southern upbringing I have created a series of figurative paintings exploring various contemporary art themes in an effort to clarify my own understanding of the two worlds I am closest to and how they may or may not be related.
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Goetzmann, Sophie. "« Et les grands cris de l’Est » : Robert Delaunay à Berlin, 1912-1914." Thesis, Paris 4, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA040191.
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Robert Delaunay (1885-1941) est l’un des artistes français les plus présents à Berlin à l’aube de la Première guerre mondiale. Avec l’aide de Herwarth Walden (1878-1941), directeur de la revue et galerie Der Sturm, l’artiste acquiert rapidement une solide réputation dans la capitale allemande, où il expose une quarantaine de toiles au cours de la seule année 1913, tandis qu’il diffuse abondamment ses propres textes théoriques et ceux de ses amis Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) et Blaise Cendrars (1887-1961). Le peintre français suscite bientôt l’engouement de certains artistes berlinois, nombreux à l’avoir rencontré lors de ses deux voyages en Allemagne avant la guerre. Pour une large partie de la recherche, ce succès s’expliquerait par un « malentendu productif » : les artistes de la capitale allemande auraient détourné l’œuvre de Delaunay dans un sens germanique, appréciant sa peinture pour des raisons étrangères à ses intentions initiales. Contestant cette hypothèse – variante de celle, pluriséculaire, de l’incompatibilité par nature des goûts allemands et français – nous proposons d’envisager la réception berlinoise de Delaunay dans une perspective micro-historique, en nous intéressant au regard porté sur lui par trois artistes : Ludwig Meidner (1884-1966), Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) et Bruno Taut (1880-1936). Après avoir mis en exergue les discours possiblement « entendus » par ceux-ci autour de l’œuvre du peintre français en Allemagne, nous nous intéressons à la trajectoire individuelle de chacun d’entre eux, mettant en évidence la profondeur des liens qui unissent finalement les avant-gardes désignées sous les termes d’orphisme et d’expressionnismeRobert Delaunay (1885-1941) is among the French artists that are the most involved in Berlin at the dawn of the World War I. Thanks to Herwarth Walden (1878-1941), who is the director of the magazine and the gallery Der Sturm, the artist quickly earns a solid reputation in the German capital city where he exhibits around forty paintings in 1913 alone, while widely circulating his own theoretical texts as well as those of his friends Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) and Blaise Cendrars (1887-1961). The French painter soon spurs the interest of some Berlin artists, many of whom have met him during his two trips to Germany before the war. For an extensive part of the research, this success could be explained by a “working misunderstanding”: the artists of the German capital city supposedly twisted Delaunay’s work in a Germanic sense, appreciating his painting for reasons that were not related to his initial intents. We contest this hypothesis – which is a variant of the centuries-old hypothesis that states a natural incompatibility between German and French tastes – we suggest to consider the Berlin welcome of Delaunay in a micro-historical perspective by focusing on three artist’s point of view about him: Ludwig Meidner (1884-1966), Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) and Bruno Taut (1880-1936). After underlining the speeches they possibly “heard” surrounding the French painter’s work in Germany, we focus on each artist’s individual path, showcasing the depths of the links that join actually the avant-gardes that are coined under the terms of orphism and expressionism
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Appelsved, Emelie. "Graffiti på spel : En kvalitativ undersökning, via NUG, om graffitins autonomi." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Konstvetenskap, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-33650.
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Abstract Comments regarding Swedish graffiti writer NUG’s film Territorial Pissing (2008) express how graffiti and art appear to be two different worlds and when these worlds come together the expression of graffiti seems to transform. This thesis, Graffiti at stake: a qualitative study, via NUG, about the autonomy in graffiti, aims to both examine and bring about a general discussion on whether graffiti is autonomous when it enters the art world. The thesis also discusses transformed content and expression in the works of NUG when performed in a different context; what is exhibited in an institutional art context and what positions does NUG occupy? The French sociologist Pierre Bourdieus conceptions field and autonomy has been used as a theoretical framework, and partly as method as well. By studying the works of NUG another expression has been found within an institutional art context – black irrational lines and cascades. These are interpreted as energy generated from the act of performing graffiti and have been discussed in relation to the graffiti- and art practice as well as the symbolic capital. The thesis argues that the autonomy is situated in what is recognized and acknowledged. The thesis also concludes that NUG is entering into a masculine, conventional and strong artist position, similar to Pollock.Populärvetenskaplig sammanfattning Uppsatsen, Graffiti på spel: en kvalitativ undersökning, via NUG, om graffitins autonomi, tar avstamp i kommentarer rörande den svenska graffitiutövaren NUG:s videoverk Territorial Pissing (2008). Kommentarer som uttrycker att graffiti och konst tycks vara två separata världar och när dessa världar möts tycks uttrycket i graffiti inte vara detsamma – är det graffiti? Om graffiti är autonomt när det inträder i konstens fält är en generell diskussion som denna uppsats lämnar ett bidrag till. NUG har en magisterexamen i konst och tillhör de största namnen på Sveriges och Europas graffitiscener. Inom en konstinstitutionell kontext har ett annat uttryck, än de traditionella graffitibokstäverna, kunnat konstateras; irrationella streck och kaskader av svart sprayfärg. De förstås som energi, alstrad från akten att måla graffiti, samt framstår som en nödvändighet. Uppsatsen diskuterar en graffitipraktik och dess relation till konstfältet. I konstens fält står graffiti på spel och autonomin hamnar i det som igenkännes och erkännes. Detta är också en uppsats om hur NUG går från en manlig utövarposition, in till en manlig, konventionell och stark konstnärsposition, i förening med Pollock, samt hur NUG har en fot i ”graffitins fält” respektive en fot i konstens fält och hur han manövrerar dessa fält.
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Haney, Tyler P. "Ripple." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2017. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2327.
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My work leverages the dynamic processes the brain uses to compute visual stimuli to influence how viewers experience my work. My aim is to create a ripple effect as the brain processes the visual information I provide.
My process begins with a camera. Focusing on the face, I see how much contextual information I can remove while still capturing the emotional expression of the subject. Before long, a photograph ends up next to a canvas where I will rebuild the image from the photograph using a myriad of expressionistic marks and colors to amplify the emotion.
Recognizing human emotion is the first ripple I want the viewer to experience. Next, they will note secondary details about the person depicted. Last, they will notice the heightened textures, the amplified flaws, the abstraction of the mark – reminders that they are looking at nothing more than a medium applied to a two-dimensional surface.
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Andrus, Timothy G. "Stuart Davis's Early Theoretical Writing, 1918–1923: Realism, Cubism, and Dada." VCU Scholars Compass, 2016. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4589.
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This dissertation provides the first in-depth examination of American artist Stuart Davis’s early theoretical writings made between 1918 and 1923. These writings are seminal documents in his artistic development. They lay the foundation for the creation of some of his most important works, inlcuding his groundbreaking Tobacco paintings of 1921 to his renowned Egg Beater series of 1927–1928, which Davis claimed set the direction for all his subsequent artistic output. One of the key ideas in these early writings is Davis’s concept of realism. This study traces the origin of Davis’s realism to his interaction with a network of ideas arising from cubism, symbolism, New York dada, and anarchist philosophy. In doing so, this study considers how Davis’s notion of realism informed both the development of his style and his iconography in his works of the 1920s.
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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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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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