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Reflections Of Oppression, Fatemeh Semiari
Reflections Of Oppression, Fatemeh Semiari
Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA
This thesis is an investigation into the lives of women living in Iran. I develop a critical framework for understanding it. It is now my understanding that women suffer greatly from the restrictions they are subjected to. I discuss what some of these restrictions are, and how these pressures create turmoil and confusion within some women. The artwork created for my thesis project is a reflection upon the relationship between social proscription and a woman’s desire to express her individuality publicly. The women I portray in my thesis project exhibit a range of emotions such as anger, depression, despair, defeat, …
A Quest For Understanding Finding My Way Back, Juan Saenz
A Quest For Understanding Finding My Way Back, Juan Saenz
Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA
My work reflects my place in nature and how through its documentation I have been given the opportunity to mend family ties. In my paintings I capture the essence of those things that bring me peace of mind and good health. The aim of my work is not solely for the purpose of self reflection but also an attempt to bring my viewers back to a different time in their lives. The following works are an example of my direction and experimentation.
The Return To Aztlan, Eliseo Moreno
The Return To Aztlan, Eliseo Moreno
Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA
With this thesis I will focus on my Chicano artistic influences as well as on my life experiences as a third-generation Chicano growing up in the barrios of Browntown, “Tejas” (Brownsville, Texas) I will also examine in my paintings the Chicano identity; its culture, traditions, beliefs, and lifestyle. In this thesis like my artwork I will depict the myth of “Atzlan” via eras of the Chicano movement. I will start my writings with the mid-nineteen forties, the “Zoot Suit” era, which I believe is the original beginning of the Chicano movement, and advance to the nineteen sixties and seventies where …
Quest For Spirituality, Teodoro Estrada
Quest For Spirituality, Teodoro Estrada
Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA
Quest for Spirituality is a body of work that confronted and validated suppressed spiritual experiences. I credit Our Lady Virgin of Guadalupe for my resurrection from ignoring my creative gift and bringing me home.
Desire for limelight, stability, and fulfilling the gallery-going public’s desire overshadowed numerous invitations and opportunities to explore spirituality. A fruitful lifestyle suppressed the nuance of spirituality never expressed until the silence vanished. My mother’s passing, a spiritual epiphany unraveled memories giving expression to these experiences. The vicious cycle of gallery going public’s desire for my art crumbled the day I returned to my homeland. Time has …
Edge Of Existence, Mack Liao
Edge Of Existence, Mack Liao
Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA
The painting, Edge of Existence best describes my surreal world at its current state. The idea started with the crisis of global warming. I want to express the peril of the creatures that are on the frontier of the global warming effect. The idea for the structure of the painting came from a Magritte painting called, The Domain of Arnheim. He has transformed an undeniably grand impression of a moonlit mountain landscape by means of a mental technique related to that of Poe and his imaginary friend Ellison, who described a magnificent, complicated, and weird landscape in which the natural …
The Borderline Between The Personal And Political, Celeste De Luna
The Borderline Between The Personal And Political, Celeste De Luna
Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA
This paper is a documentation of the form, content, techniques, and processes of the body of visual artwork I created for my M.F.A. graduate coursework. My work frequently uses themes based on the migrant/border experiences of women, children, and families throughout generations in the context of the larger American experience. My acrylic paintings on canvas, assemblages and installations validate Latino/Chicano experiences and invites reflection and learning. My work is influenced and relates to contemporary Chicano and Post-Chicano Art, Feminist Art, and the writings of Gloria A. Anzaldua.
Micro_Cosmos, Rachael E. Freyman Brown
Micro_Cosmos, Rachael E. Freyman Brown
Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA
This exhibition thesis and its accompanying exhibition invite the viewer to contemplate large and small connections to nature in our lives. How are backyard gardens a metaphor for the way our culture thinks of or treats nature and the environment? Do we have personal or spiritual connections to the land, plants, and the ecosystem, or do we see them merely as products for our use? The work in micro _COSMOS is an attempt to balance and unite paradoxes: the spiritual within the everyday, the natural and the constructed, and to come to terms with the constant cycle of regeneration in …
Gallos, Caballos, Gente Y Paisajes, Rosendo Sandoval
Gallos, Caballos, Gente Y Paisajes, Rosendo Sandoval
Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA
First. I will give the reader a brief but detailed biography. It covers the period of time from my birth all the way to my college graduation. This section gives the reader an idea about my beginnings as an artist, and about the hardships that I have endured during my lifetime.
Second, this paper talks about the work, and my main sources of inspiration. In it I explain to the reader what have been my sources of inspiration from childhood all the way to the present time. One of my first sources of inspiration were the old Mexican movies that …