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Luce E Ombre - Light And Shadows, Robert L. Foah
Luce E Ombre - Light And Shadows, Robert L. Foah
Art and Design Theses
This thesis focuses on the oppositional and complimentary forces of light and shadows in the culture of Naples, Italy. Demonstrating, through photographs and the analysis of these photographs, how the light of Naples, a ‘northern’ light, and its resultant shadows echo (metaphorically and in reality) the light and shadows of the society, culture and history of Naples, Italy.
From Form To Form, Pia Bergholtz
From Form To Form, Pia Bergholtz
All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023
My MFA thesis project is an exploration of the evolving nature of patterns, and how set shapes and lines can take on new form through position, scale, repetition and color. I have designed four Scandinavian style patterns with imagery and colors drawn from my roots and childhood in Sweden. With the inspiration and direction of a variety of different cultural imagery and form, I then explored how to make new patterns from each of these, ending up with over 100 different patterns and variations from the original four. The exhibit represents the wide range of transformation that can be achieved, …
Mapping The Distant, Llorens Ana Esteve
Mapping The Distant, Llorens Ana Esteve
Theses and Dissertations
This Thesis presents several approaches through art making to deal with light and space and other things, and the relations that their interaction may generate
Course Over Ground, Kyle James Bauer
Course Over Ground, Kyle James Bauer
LSU Master's Theses
This exhibition, Course Over Ground, cohesively combines a metaphorical reference to maritime navigation with sculptural forms that convey balance, tension, and control. My mixed media sculptures are conceived with an adherence to the formalist perspective of objects. Each sculpture exists as an honest form. The work, and my intention in making it, is evidence of the process of breaking down selective images or objects into what I understand to be their purest representational forms, such as a squares, cylinders, pyramids, and rectangles. I allude to themes and the metaphor of a journey, which coupled alongside my continual quest for self-discovery, …
Wiggle Veil (Or, Love Needs Objects), Adrienne Lynch
Wiggle Veil (Or, Love Needs Objects), Adrienne Lynch
LSU Master's Theses
The six sculptural works that comprise my thesis exhibition emerged from a prolonged series of investigations into the intricately interconnected phenomenon of embodied experience in the world as we know it. These works explore the connections between mysteries in our inner and outer worlds, taking as inescapable fact the notion that our bodily vessels, in all their complexity and subtlety, are the vehicles through which we encounter the world. As such, this work posits embodiment as both frame and anchor for all knowledge and experience. These sculptures, made from ceramic materials and mixed media such as sugar, salt, string, and …