Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Keyword
-
- Painting (5)
- Art (1)
- Asethetic (1)
- Bangladeshi (1)
- Bengali (1)
-
- Collage (1)
- Contemporary Art (1)
- Digital Culture (1)
- Dwelling (1)
- Emotion (1)
- Expressionism (1)
- Fine art (1)
- Harper Hair (1)
- Icon, Idealization, Obsession, Repurpose, Desire, Drawing, Painting, Printmaking (1)
- Identity (1)
- Interior (1)
- Limited body (1)
- Memory (1)
- Mindfulness (1)
- New realism (1)
- Painting, printmaking, kinship, mystery, reverence, relationship (1)
- People Like Ourselves (1)
- Phenomenology (1)
- Picuture (1)
- Place (1)
- Printmaking (1)
- Sculpture (1)
- Still life (1)
- Surface (1)
- Textiles (1)
Articles 1 - 8 of 8
Full-Text Articles in Art and Design
Temple Of Familiars, Madeleine Grace Kelly
Temple Of Familiars, Madeleine Grace Kelly
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
My paintings, etchings, and installation explore encounters with mystery in the natural world, especially through the flora, fauna, light, and water of the swamps around the Atchafalaya Basin. My practice explores kinship, reverence, and awe as an antidote to estrangement from the spirit of the land. I am influenced by artists and scholars engaging with the places that they inhabit and that inhabit them with a reverence and mystery of approach. My work invites viewers to engage with the memory that the water carries of our interconnectedness, and to remember that we are not separate from the natural world.
Reading The Room: Memory, Dwelling, And The Everyday, Sara R. Hardin
Reading The Room: Memory, Dwelling, And The Everyday, Sara R. Hardin
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
In any space, there is a residue that coats the present with a patina of memory. Creating layered imagery in dream-like paintings and prints, I use the domestic realm as a metaphor for the internal world of the mind, memories, and private thoughts, including them in compositions with symbols like the boundaries of windows, doors, and gates. These metaphorical structures also portray outward identities, which guard inner emotions. The conceptual aspects of these compositional elements weave together memories of the past and places of the present into a unified whole.
I began graduate school at the beginning of the COVID-19 …
An Exploration Of Bengali Identity With Material And Visual Artifacts Through Painting, Farah Billah
An Exploration Of Bengali Identity With Material And Visual Artifacts Through Painting, Farah Billah
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Painting is and always has been, at its root, an exploration of identity for me. My current collection of work explores the stripping of Eurocentric beauty standards and presentation of the divine of the Brown Body to reveal my version of the human spirit. My drawings, paintings, and a hand-tufted rug all made with a surreal, colorful representation of the coming together of body and mind.
Picturing Things, Matthew J. Bivalacqua
Picturing Things, Matthew J. Bivalacqua
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
My creative process is a ritual I use to examine my personal narrative. Digital photography is a way for me to mine an object or environment with an obsessive emphasis, and extract an image that signifies something relatable. By employing tropes derived from my personal narrative, and filtering them through image manipulation software; I am able to dramatize aspects of perspective and scale. With an automatic mark guided by printed images and projections of digital panoramic images, the surface and resulting picture comes into focus. This is a way for me to move past my experiences. Achieving this level of …
Motive Through Automotive Compassionately Criticizing The Desires Of Car Culture, Erika R. Lehrmann
Motive Through Automotive Compassionately Criticizing The Desires Of Car Culture, Erika R. Lehrmann
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
My artwork represents my admiration and criticisms of car culture I have gathered throughout my personal experiences beginning at a very early age. The work exists in the form of drawings, paintings, prints, collage and sculpture. This work is created through the elements of personal narrative, desires, obsessions, and questions surrounding car culture and its influences. My intention to refurbish the icons of this culture has involved creating work that is both obsessive and critical for personal exploration and understanding of past memories.
People Like Ourselves, Harper D. Hair
People Like Ourselves, Harper D. Hair
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
The thesis writing here is an effort by the artist to identify his motives in creating, and his aims for the audience, and to communicate this to the reader in a clear and truthful manner. Section 1 focuses on introducing the ground of the artists’ thinking, discussing his ideas of the body and culture identity, and how they motivate his work. Section 2 goes into greater detail about the manner his thought process evolved through the course of a number of works. In Section 3, there is an ever sharper focus in the works towards the isolated and inscrutable individual. …
Beginner's Mind, Martin L. Benson
Beginner's Mind, Martin L. Benson
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
My art distills my relationship to spirituality, digital culture, and the practices and side-effects therein, into a simplified visual language. The work manifests in the form of paintings, drawings, and light sculptures. Meditation and mindfulness training are a large part of my influence and interests. I often wonder how mindfulness practice can be mirrored in my artwork, not only in my process for creating the work, but also with what the resulting imagery does for the viewer. My intention is to provide an art form that invites one to look and experience one’s own capacity to observe, without the need …
Ripple, Tyler P. Haney
Ripple, Tyler P. Haney
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
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 …