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Full-Text Articles in Art and Design
Portrait Of Hadrian, Risd Museum, Stephen Shaheen
Portrait Of Hadrian, Risd Museum, Stephen Shaheen
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Hadrian was emperor at the very height of the Imperial Period (117–138 CE). He was selected to rule the Roman Empire because of his personal skills rather than his ancestry. One of the most well-traveled and cosmopolitan Roman emperors, he made two journeys around the empire during his reign. He is remembered for his love of the Greek world, particularly its arts and architecture. Portraits of reigning emperors ensured that Roman citizens knew what their ruler looked like, and were widely distributed throughout the empire. This portrait of Hadrian would have been inserted into a carved bust and prominently displayed. …
Home On The Run, Risd Museum, Brian Chippendale
Saint George, Risd Museum, Sheila Bonde
Saint George, Risd Museum, Sheila Bonde
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Saint George was a soldier of the Roman Emperor Diocletian who accepted martyrdom rather than denounce his Christian faith. This carved and painted sculpture was likely to have been pulled or carried outdoors in religious processions commemorating his feast day, now celebrated on April 23. He was frequently depicted astride a horse, holding a shield and an upraised sword, symbols of both protection and sacrifice. During the Middle Ages, Saint George was the subject of widespread devotion, from Russia and Greece in the east to as far west as the British Isles. Perceived as defender of the Crusades and the …
Untitled Film Still, Risd Museum, A. Will Brown
Untitled Film Still, Risd Museum, A. Will Brown
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When making his prints, animations, and light boxes, Ezawa looks for source images on the Internet, manipulates them, and distills them to their essentials. Untitled Film Still belongs to a series of works for which Ezawa appropriated several famous photographs in order to deal with the questions of why some images become icons and how one looks at and interprets imagery. It is a playful appropriation of Cindy Sherman’s photograph with the same title from 1978. Sherman’s seminal Untitled Film Still series was in fact single photographs in which a female character (always played by Sherman herself) is trapped in …
Lucent, Risd Museum, Sebastian Ruth, Toots Zynsky
Lucent, Risd Museum, Sebastian Ruth, Toots Zynsky
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Toots Zynsky is internationally regarded as one of the most innovative figures in studio glass. Lucente is a vibrant example of her signature ‘filet de verre’ (net of glass) technique, in which she fuses thousands of intensely colored hair-thin threads of glass together on a flat surface and then allows them to slump into a bowl-shaped mold. The colors undulate and evoke feathers, flames, or woven textile designs. Zynsky’s glass-layering technique has a painterly quality unique for the medium. In Lucente, the exterior wash of green and yellow threads gives a misty appearance to the oranges and reds seen through …
Rock Head, Risd Museum, James Montford
Rock Head, Risd Museum, James Montford
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One of contemporary art’s most compelling and elusive figures, David Hammons draws upon his identity as an African American for his sculptures, performances, and installations. He was also inspired by the 1960s Italian Arte Povera (Poor Art) movement with its use of everyday materials to create metaphorical imagery. Rock Head embodies a strikingly elegant human form with remarkable simplicity, roughness, and asymmetry. Reminiscent of both archeological remains and Brancusi’s Modernist ovoid heads, the smooth boulder is thatched with hair swept up from the floor of a Harlem barbershop. Hammons began using human hair from barbershops in the 1970s for installations …
Maternity Dress, Risd Museum, Deborah Johnson, Hilary Treadwell, Judith Tannenbaum
Maternity Dress, Risd Museum, Deborah Johnson, Hilary Treadwell, Judith Tannenbaum
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Goddess Maat, Risd Museum, Gina Borromeo, Ingrid Neuman
Goddess Maat, Risd Museum, Gina Borromeo, Ingrid Neuman
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This depiction of Maat appears to be cast in three pieces: the altar, the figure, and the feather. Smooth, highly polished surfaces contrast with the concentrated detailing of the feather, wig, broad collar, and openwork altar. The goddess embodying truth, balance, and proper action, Maat pervaded all aspects of Egyptian culture. Traditionally represented as a woman with an ostrich feather headdress, Maat here sits in a characteristic pose. Similar bronze figures of Maat suggest that this piece is incomplete, and was most likely part of a group composition in which the goddess was juxtaposed with a larger figure of the …
2014 Forces, Scott Yarbrough
Head Of Buddha Shakyamuni, Risd Museum, Gregory Schopen, Vazira Zamindar
Head Of Buddha Shakyamuni, Risd Museum, Gregory Schopen, Vazira Zamindar
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The earliest images of Buddha are found in modern-day Pakistan at sites along ancient trade routes. The region once known as Gandhara was familiar to the Greeks as early as the fourth century BCE. Traces of their influence are visible in the classicizing features of this head of Buddha (top), combined with all the traditional attributes of Buddha—the skull protuberance, the spot or tuft of hairs between the eyebrows, and the elongated earlobes of ancient Indian nobility. The simplified and youthful facial features and the coiled knots of hair are typical of Gandharan representations. This head would probably have been …
Nostalgia And The Repair Of Place: A Nativity Scene In St. Peter's Square, Sarah Stanbury
Nostalgia And The Repair Of Place: A Nativity Scene In St. Peter's Square, Sarah Stanbury
English Department Faculty Scholarship
This essay explores the presepe, an important form of traditional religious Italian dioramic art depicting the Nativity. In particular, it examines the presepe designed by Francesco Artese as part of a broader reflection on Italian nativity scenes as imagined cultural landscapes and installation art.
The Hand Of God, Stephen Shaheen
The Hand Of God, Stephen Shaheen
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Rodin’s The Hand of God has been viewed not only as a metaphorical representation of the creation of man but also as a commentary on the sculptor’s role as creator. The emblematic hand that emerges from a block of roughly hewn marble represents the Divine Creator forming the bodies of Adam and Eve interlocked in a primal embrace. In contrast to the figures’ slender, attenuated limbs, the sinewy hand was perceived by critics as that of a working man. Together, the well-defined hand and the ephemeral figures bridge Rodin’s interests in both realist and symbolist art. One of three known …
Concrete Painting, Stephanie Cafcules
Concrete Painting, Stephanie Cafcules
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This thesis explores the evolution of my artwork with synthetic materials through influences of the Minimalist and Process Artists of the 1960's and 1970's, inspiration from natural forms, and my exploration of concrete painting. Each work reveals discoveries of different processes and materials, accelerating the creation of new works. It is my hope this thesis will inform viewers about the process and concepts that my work embodies.
Doubting Thomas: The Testaments, Ivan Riascos
Doubting Thomas: The Testaments, Ivan Riascos
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This paper will discuss the creation of my artwork, which has been inspired by my experiences and understandings of Catholicism and its icons. I will consider how iconography works in art, its influence, and how and why I have created this artwork dealing with my beliefs. I will also refer to the works of contemporary artists Duane Michals and Michael Wesely to help explain my exhibition, which I have titled "Doubting Thomas: The Testaments."
Projected Surfaces, Jason Flynn
Projected Surfaces, Jason Flynn
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
In this paper I will address the philosophies of Susan Sontag, Roland Barthes and Thomas Ruff by considering the object, materials and processes of photography as my primary motivator to create art. I will examine the contrast between photographic imagery, as an illusion of the past, and sculpture, as a physical manifestation of the present, when creating works that ask, "What else can photography be?"
Think / Make / Think (Exhibition Catalogue), Sam Yates, Dorothy Metzger Habel, Joshua Bienko, Jered Sprecher, Emily Ward Bivens, Sally Brogden, Jason Brown, Paul Harrill, Paul Lee, Sarah Lowe, Beauvais Lyons, Frank Martin, Althea Murphy-Price, John Powers, Deborah Shmerler, Cary Staples, Claire Stigliani, David Wilson, Karla Wozniak, Koichii Yamamoto, Mary Campbell, Timothy W. Hiles, Amy Neff, Suzanne Wright
Think / Make / Think (Exhibition Catalogue), Sam Yates, Dorothy Metzger Habel, Joshua Bienko, Jered Sprecher, Emily Ward Bivens, Sally Brogden, Jason Brown, Paul Harrill, Paul Lee, Sarah Lowe, Beauvais Lyons, Frank Martin, Althea Murphy-Price, John Powers, Deborah Shmerler, Cary Staples, Claire Stigliani, David Wilson, Karla Wozniak, Koichii Yamamoto, Mary Campbell, Timothy W. Hiles, Amy Neff, Suzanne Wright
Ewing Gallery of Art & Architecture
This exhibition featured the work of current professors in the University of Tennessee School of Art.
Exhibiting faculty were: Joshua Bienko, Emily Bivens, Sally Brogden, Jason S. Brown, Paul Harrill, Paul Lee, Sarah Lowe, Beauvais Lyons, Frank Martin, Althea Murphy-Price, John Powers, Deborah Shmerler, Jered Sprecher, Cary Staples, Claire Stigliani, David Wilson, Karla Wozniak, Koichi Yamamoto, and Sam Yates.
Color Refined (Exhibition Catalogue), Sam Yates, Max Weintraub
Color Refined (Exhibition Catalogue), Sam Yates, Max Weintraub
Ewing Gallery of Art & Architecture
Color Refined is comprised of paintings, drawings, collages, and sculpture by five women artists who immigrated to the United States from five different countries. Although their ages span three generations, these New York based artists share a love of color and abstraction.
Exhibiting artists were: Rachel Beach, Siri Berg, Gabriele Evertz, Beatrice Riese, and Rella Stuart-Hunt.
Mfa Promotional Material, School Of Art
Mfa Promotional Material, School Of Art
Historical Material
Information booklet for the University of Tennessee School of Art Master of Fine Arts Program.
This publication features the work of graduates: Hannah Short, Jessica Kreutter, Jessica Anderson, Rebecca Mixon, Shaurya Kumar, Ericka Walker, Harrison Pang, Ren Cummings, Jarred Elrod, Hilary Williams, Ben Seamons, and Eleanor Aldrich.
Chester Cornett: Beyond The Narrow Sky, Chester Cornett, Kentucky Folk Art Center
Chester Cornett: Beyond The Narrow Sky, Chester Cornett, Kentucky Folk Art Center
Kentucky Folk Art Center Exhibition Catalogs
2014 Kentucky Folk Art Center exhibition catalog of artist Chester Cornett.
The Italian Presepe: Cultural Landscapes Of The Soul, Sarah Stanbury, Margot Balboni
The Italian Presepe: Cultural Landscapes Of The Soul, Sarah Stanbury, Margot Balboni
Exhibit Catalogs
The Italian Presepe: Cultural Landscape of the Soul is an exploration of an important form of traditional religious Italian dioramic art depicting the Nativity. The Italian presepe is a widely practiced art form, encompassing in three dimensions elements of sculpture, painting and set design.
Robert Smithson, Gary Shapiro
Robert Smithson, Gary Shapiro
Philosophy Faculty Publications
Smithson, Robert (1938-1973), a prominent U.S. artist, original critic, and theorist, is known for the Spiral Jetty (1970) in Utah's Great Salt Lake and other earthworks. He was a continuing influence and significant voice with respect to environmental art and postmodernism, introduced concepts such as entropy and geological time into the making and discussion of art, and focused on the intertwining of text and visual structure or surface.