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Musical Inspiration As Seen Through The Artist's Eyes, Antoni Pizà

Publications and Research

The role of inspiration in the creation of a musical work has been a matter for conjecture and research by musicians and psychologists. But the realm of inspiration belongs to the creators themselves, who supply mythology, religion, and science to account for the source of an artwork. Throughout history, painters, too, have given their version of musical inspiration and the process of the creation of the work of art. What is musical inspiration? Where does it come from? What are its effects? The following essay explores some painters' responses by surveying some representative works of art.

Shaman--Ritual--Place: Sacred Sites And Spiritual Transformation, Paul Faulstich

Pitzer Faculty Publications and Research

Throughout the world, tribal societies have held in sacred esteem certain locales within the physical environment. These have been utilized for the purposes of shamanism, ritual, magic, and mythologizing.

Enhanced Realism In The Development Of My Painting, Zifen Qian

Dissertations and Theses

It is a basic truth that the artist must have independent experience and personality in order to create art from life. Combining a traditional realistic style with some elements of abstract composition fits my personality. My paintings represent a pursuit of this idea that is the enhanced realism in the development of my painting.

1989 Forces, Peggy Brown

Forces

No abstract provided.

Untitled (Red), G Brunken

Morehead State University Art Collection

A 1989 untitled lithograph by artist G. Brunken.

Master Of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition 1989, David Wilson

Ewing Gallery of Art & Architecture

MFA class of 1989: Judith Nadine Condon, Amy R. Harris, David Lyons, Rea Mingeva, Barry Motes, Ken Pooley, Deborah K. Rodday, Kevin Sparks, Kenneth A. Snyder, and Stephanie Davis Turner.

1989 Annual Student Art Competition, Department Of Art

Historical Material

Two student gallery visitors look at work in 42nd Annual Student Art Competition in the Ewing Gallery of Art + Architecture.

Some Visual Issues Of Painting : An Exploration Of The Painting Process, Barbara Leedy Branham

Dissertations and Theses

A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Fine Arts in Art: Painting.

Things Seen And Remembered, Charlien Dee Fitzpatrick

Dissertations and Theses

This thesis project consists of twenty oil paintings and watercolors. It is a series of visual problems based on work from direct observation as opposed to work from imagination. The concern is to show how the works from observed nature affect the imaginary pieces and how the imaginary works lend unexpected elements to the observed works. With a particular interest in color, visual energy, and painterly form, the project shows how these two avenues of exploration start out separately and eventually blend.

Francis Cunningham: Painting And Drawing, University Of Richmond Museums

Exhibition Brochures

Francis Cunningham: Painting and Drawing

March 14 to April 5, 1989

Marsh Art Gallery

Introduction

Realism is an attitude toward life that affirms the beauty and significance of the visible world. Realism starts outside with the surfaces of things and travels inward to their meaning. Everything in this process has to do with selection. What has the object told a particular artist about itself, about its relationship to other objects and to the surrounding space?

In life one takes in things at a glance, but the artist looks at an object for hours, weeks, months, even years. Premier coup painting …

George Tooker: Painting And Working Drawings 1947-1988, University Of Richmond Museums

Exhibition Brochures

George Tooker: Painting and Working Drawings 1947-1988

September 6 to September 27, 1989

Marsh Art Gallery

Introduction

Paintings such as Subway, 1950, and Ward, 1970-71, are unforgettable images of the numbing isolation and anonymity that George Tooker finds in our secular bureaucratic society. What lies behind these compelling images? The larger context of private and public themes offers us insight into Tooker's achievement. I would like to propose that at least a part of this achievement lies in his simultaneous use and dismissal of the traditional, that is Renaissance-based, perspective construction of pictorial space.

While studying at the …