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Exploring Personal Symbolism And Visual Metaphors Through Artistic Inquiry, Mollie Katzin
Exploring Personal Symbolism And Visual Metaphors Through Artistic Inquiry, Mollie Katzin
Art and Design Theses
This paper focuses on the use and implications of using symbols in personal artwork and in the art classroom. Biological, psychological, and cultural reasons for making art with visual metaphor and personal symbolism are explained. The use of symbolism and visual metaphors in the artmaking process are discussed. Through the analysis of a series of paintings created using personal symbolism, the topic is further explored and researched. Implications and uses for the art classroom are also provided.
Buy Nathan Sharratt: A Requirement Of The Masters Of Fine Arts Degree Of Georgia State University, Nathan Sharratt
Buy Nathan Sharratt: A Requirement Of The Masters Of Fine Arts Degree Of Georgia State University, Nathan Sharratt
Art and Design Theses
Buy Nathan Sharratt: A Requirement of the Masters of Fine Arts degree of Georgia State University, is a multidiscipline and multiplatform exhibition of post-institutional critique that uses my lived experience of being an academic artist pursuing a terminal art degree at a public university as its point of departure. It evaluates how societal expectations influence the formation of individual and group identity in mediated culture. Buy Nathan Sharratt challenges the hierarchy of economic and social value systems by simulating an institutional museum retrospective of super-famous and super-commoditized artist “Nathan Sharratt.” The exhibition is divided into a gallery space, a …
A Comparison Of Art Education Practices In Bangladesh And In The United States, Nafisa I. Nova
A Comparison Of Art Education Practices In Bangladesh And In The United States, Nafisa I. Nova
Art and Design Theses
The intent of this study is to provide a comparison study of art education philosophies, methods, and practices in Bangladeshi schools to schools in the United States. This is a descriptive study with an intensive examination of curriculum materials and textbooks from the education system in Bangladesh as well as narrative based on my past experiences as a student in Bangladeshi primary schools. After translating and analyzing Bangladeshi middle school curriculum, I compared and contrasted art education philosophies, objectives and practices in Bangladesh with those in the United States.
Incongruent Ilk, Derek W. Faust
Incongruent Ilk, Derek W. Faust
Art and Design Theses
incongruent ilk is a thesis exhibition of formally and conceptually linked situations that by their distilled nature initiate deeper contemplation of topics that are often just examined superficially. For my thesis exhibition I set out to produce curated arrangements of objects and materials because I believe something important is revealed about ourselves when we engage with common and banal objects in the material world. The exchange between the human experience and the unique nature of specific objects can connect us to each other by highlighting shared, yet subjectively interpreted experiences. The linear connections in this body of work give way …
Dysfunctional, Gina R. Thompson
Dysfunctional, Gina R. Thompson
Art and Design Theses
Dysfunctional examines the relationships and experiences that contribute to my art. I grew up in an unsafe environment, with dysfunctional people. This work serves as a peek inside some of those emotions and explores issues of codependence and abusive family systems that suffer but endure. There is no victim in this story only a strong survivor who wants to cultivate awareness through her work. I have revisited this subject as a way to overcome shame. By being vulnerable and sharing my experiences I am able to heal.
Residual Residence, Krista Clark
Residual Residence, Krista Clark
Art and Design Theses
Residual Residence is an account of my process and how it is shaped and informed by the language of architecture and abstraction. It pinpoints shifts from a predominately drawing-based practice to one sensitive to the possibilities of drawing within physical space. Formal gestures of erasing, overlapping, layering and stacking are employed to play with relationships of space. For my thesis work, Residual Residence, I use the visual language of architecture and the literal physicality of building materials to create collaged drawings and site-specific installations.
Uncovering The Past: How The Windows Of The Royal Chapel At St. Germain-En-Laye Reveal The History Of This Powerful Site, Meghan E. Benesh
Uncovering The Past: How The Windows Of The Royal Chapel At St. Germain-En-Laye Reveal The History Of This Powerful Site, Meghan E. Benesh
Art and Design Theses
This essay focuses on the theological, social, and cultural contexts of the Royal Chapel at St. Germain-en-Laye. I pay particular attention to the rose window on the west wall, which was changed over time by the multiple renovations and redecorations by French monarchs as well as the “official restoration” in the 1880's. The restoration in the nineteenth century by Eugène Millet and his successors was not a strictly historical project but reflected the 1880's perception of the thirteenth-century style of architecture and decoration. This paper looks at both what we know now about how the Rayonnant style was originally used …
#Community: Café Culture And The Relevance Of A Traditional Third Place In The Social Media Era, Catherine Trugman
#Community: Café Culture And The Relevance Of A Traditional Third Place In The Social Media Era, Catherine Trugman
Art and Design Theses
The third place of the corner café has historically served as a community living room, providing an essential setting for social interaction and flânerie within the built environment. With modern technology and communication methods, however, interaction that once required physical proximity can now occur virtually. So where does this leave the corner café in today’s society? Have our third places moved online into fourth places such as Facebook and Twitter? A gallery exhibition entitled #Community is discussed as a visual representation of this written thesis. Methods and frequency of interaction – with others in the physical space as well with …
Locating The Individual: Theatricality, Realism, And Historical Engagement In The Photographic Work Of Yinka Shonibare Mbe, Anne Weems
Art and Design Theses
This essay is a study of Yinka Shonibare MBE, London-born and Nigerian-raised contemporary artist, and his recent photographic practice that includes three series: Fake Death Pictures, William Morris Family Album, and Medusa. Exploration of the series reveals insight into Shonibare’s unique relationship to photography, in which he employs the hyper-realism and theatricality of the medium to interact with individuals from British history and reveal contemporary social and political injustices.
Double Distance, Victoria Tinsley
Double Distance, Victoria Tinsley
Art and Design Theses
My thesis exhibition Double Distance is an installation of paintings and sculptures exploring my changing relationship with myself and with my mother as she succumbs to a degenerative brain disease. Through the intersection of surrogate life-size figures made from found objects alongside and within paintings of hugging bodies, the exhibition reveals the simultaneous enmeshment and separation that occurs in caring for my mother. In repeating similar figures within and outside the painted surface, the exhibition reflects on the act of caregiving and the desire to reproduce what is loved and that which has been lost. The works included in the …
Complex Destruction: Near Eastern Antiquities And The Isis Spectacle, Lauren Bearden
Complex Destruction: Near Eastern Antiquities And The Isis Spectacle, Lauren Bearden
Art and Design Theses
Throughout 2015, the Islamic State (ISIS) was a major news story for its destruction of Ancient Near Eastern collections and heritage sites, which created a spectacle across media. The focus of ISIS’s infamous video uploaded in February of 2015 was the colossal statue of a Lamassu, which was an ancient Assyrian guard deity. By focusing on the Lamassu, this thesis aims to address the Western concept of a “cradle of civilization” and ISIS’s motivation for destroying the sculpture. I utilize Kwame Appiah’s philosophy of cosmopolitanism in order to flesh out the language in which ISIS is communicating, namely through its …
Only The Lull I Like, The Hum Of Your Valved Voice, Trevor Reese
Only The Lull I Like, The Hum Of Your Valved Voice, Trevor Reese
Art and Design Theses
The intent of this thesis is to clarify my artistic working process as well as the resulting thesis exhibition, Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice. I will provide explanations and descriptions of my exhibition (comprising a select placement of objects) as well as offer antecedents, informants, and the evolution of my art practice as a whole during my graduate studies. Specifically the work is discussed through the lenses of situational aesthetics, conceptual relationships, and perceptual absence to argue for the complicated semantics of the viewer within an ontology of object-hood and pre-established conditions.
Embrace The Suck, Tyler Nicholson
Embrace The Suck, Tyler Nicholson
Art and Design Theses
Embrace the Suck is an important and widely experienced military colloquialism. The phrase is based on the undeniable fact that life is about to become very difficult and the only option is to embrace all that is horrible. I reimagine childhood toys, playing at war and subvert the monumental. Common heroic exploits are restructured into moments between action, the hurry up and wait, the busy work, the catharsis through self-destruction. Based on my personal experiences in the US Army and an arsenal of information and stories from fellow soldiers, I become a native informant.
How To Orient Yourself In The Wilderness, Jack W. Deese
How To Orient Yourself In The Wilderness, Jack W. Deese
Art and Design Theses
How to Orient Yourself in the Wilderness is an exhibition presented in the style of a survival guide. The “wilderness” is a metaphor for the unknown. Within this category of the unknown are numerous literal and figurative spaces. I use the guide as an attempt to pin down why I gravitate towards the camera and what it means to me as a form of communication. Simultaneously I explore what it means to be “southern” and the manner in which it is traditionally represented in images. Also included in the wilderness tag is the “art world” and the relationship of straight …