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Vida En Sombras, Tommy Canales Burns Dec 2016

Vida En Sombras, Tommy Canales Burns

CGU MFA Theses

Verisimilitude. What is reality? Subconsciously we are acting out and absorbing information collating data and in turn responding with instincts. Learning processes to view and shape this world. I think of the Hermann Hesse’s doppelganger, the idea of a shadow self. Group identities can also have strange shadow selves. It is bizarre to look back at history and see the changing context of social norms, fashions, traditions, scientific, philosophical, and political thought. Art is a sign of the times, creating space for the inner dialogue of collective consciousness to be purged and hashed out.


Gauguin's Savage Document Work: Understanding As Function, Tim Gorichanaz Dec 2016

Gauguin's Savage Document Work: Understanding As Function, Tim Gorichanaz

Proceedings from the Document Academy

We tend to think of documents as things that provide answers, but documents can also provoke questions. This can be seen clearly in the study of art-making as document work, since the power of art is not in how it can represent reality, but how it can pose questions to reality. In this paper, I examine the work of 19th-century artist Paul Gauguin, which proceeded through iterative abstraction and productive reproduction. Gauguin's document work was a mode of questioning with the epistemic and communicative aim of understanding.


French Women In Art: Reclaiming The Body Through Creation/Les Femmes Artistes Françaises : La Réclamation Du Corps À Travers La Création, Liatris Hethcoat Dec 2016

French Women In Art: Reclaiming The Body Through Creation/Les Femmes Artistes Françaises : La Réclamation Du Corps À Travers La Création, Liatris Hethcoat

Student Scholar Symposium Abstracts and Posters

The research I have conducted for my French Major Senior Thesis is a culmination of my passion for and studies of both French language and culture and the history and practice of Visual Arts. I have examined, across the history of art, the representation of women, and concluded that until the 20th century, these representations have been tools employed by the makers of history and those at the top of the patriarchal system, used to control women’s images and thus women themselves. I survey these representations, which are largely created by men—until the 20th century. I discuss pre-historical …


Jaguar Sun, Anya Nadal Nov 2016

Jaguar Sun, Anya Nadal

The STEAM Journal

Cymatics, is derived from a Greek word, meaning "wave", is a subset of modal vibrational phenomena. The term was coined by Hans Jenny, a Swiss follower of the philosophical school known as anthroposophy. This is a visual representation of the frequency field. I created this piece from acrylic on canvas based on the subtle energies I can see and feel.


Northwest Coast Native American Art: The Relationship Between Museums, Native Americans And Artists, Karrie E. Myers Aug 2016

Northwest Coast Native American Art: The Relationship Between Museums, Native Americans And Artists, Karrie E. Myers

Museum Studies Theses

Museums today have many responsibilities, including protecting and understanding objects in their care. Many also have relationships with groups of people whose items or artworks are housed within their institutions. This paper explores the relationship between museums and Northwest Coast Native Americans and their artists. Participating museums include those in and out of the Northwest Coast region, such as the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, the Burke Museum, the Royal British Columbia Museum, the American Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian Museum. Museum professionals who conducted research for some of these museums included Franz Boas, …


Summoning The Body That Acts, Brendan M. Mccauley Jul 2016

Summoning The Body That Acts, Brendan M. Mccauley

Masters Theses

Seven series of artworks; painted, drawn and performed. These works are presented as affective incorporation exercises, that test modes of aesthetic communication in response to varying political contingencies. The constitutive processes used to develop the work also function as a methodology for my own political radicalization. As an artist I am wagering how to talk, as an activist I am preparing to act. The artworks discussed occur at the crossroads of these desires as enactions of futurity within the subjunctive mood.


Rendering, Katrina Flood Jun 2016

Rendering, Katrina Flood

The Anthology

Artwork


Untitled, Kaitlyn Walters Jun 2016

Untitled, Kaitlyn Walters

The Anthology

Artwork


Full Issue, The Anthology Jun 2016

Full Issue, The Anthology

The Anthology

This is the entirety of the 2013 Winthrop Anthology issue.


The Future Is Fire, Ariel Berry Jun 2016

The Future Is Fire, Ariel Berry

The Hilltop Review

No abstract provided.


Luminous Luminosity, Thomas Seay Jun 2016

Luminous Luminosity, Thomas Seay

The Anthology

Artwork


Future, Rachel Sullivan Jun 2016

Future, Rachel Sullivan

The Anthology

Artwork


Full Issue, The Anthology Jun 2016

Full Issue, The Anthology

The Anthology

This is the entirety of the 2014 Winthrop Anthology issue.


The Excitement Of Life, Jacob D. Soukup Jun 2016

The Excitement Of Life, Jacob D. Soukup

Celebration of Learning

These recent paintings explore the presence of excitement, energy and adrenaline rush one can capture in a moment. Oil paints have a quality that can make a painting come to life. This lifelike quality is exactly what I strive to capture in a way that allows the viewers to put themselves inside the painting. The inspiration for these paintings came from my own experiences of adventure and risk-taking. The use of foreshortening and distortion helps give the figures a sense of energy and create movement throughout the composition. By portraying the various situations through a warped lens, I believe that …


Answers Will Come, Gabrielle Wolfe May 2016

Answers Will Come, Gabrielle Wolfe

The Anthology

Artwork


Chicken, Heidi Nisbett May 2016

Chicken, Heidi Nisbett

The Anthology

Artwork


Accumulating, Joanna Henry May 2016

Accumulating, Joanna Henry

The Anthology

Artwork


Sanctioning Of Gifts Ii, Tom Seay May 2016

Sanctioning Of Gifts Ii, Tom Seay

The Anthology

Artwork


Full Issue, The Anthology May 2016

Full Issue, The Anthology

The Anthology

This is the entirety of the 2015 Winthrop Anthology issue.


2016 Forces, Scott Yarbrough May 2016

2016 Forces, Scott Yarbrough

Forces

No abstract provided.


New Beginnings, Kristen Rowell Apr 2016

New Beginnings, Kristen Rowell

The Anthology

Artwork


Lightbulb Ii, Amy Ciravolo Apr 2016

Lightbulb Ii, Amy Ciravolo

The Anthology

Artwork


Glow, Amy Ciravolo Apr 2016

Glow, Amy Ciravolo

The Anthology

Artwork


Nia, Emily Furr Apr 2016

Nia, Emily Furr

The Anthology

Artwork


Full Issue, The Anthology Apr 2016

Full Issue, The Anthology

The Anthology

This is the entirety of the 2016 Winthrop Anthology issue.


Maybe The Gate Could Be A Fan, Erin L. Schoenbeck Apr 2016

Maybe The Gate Could Be A Fan, Erin L. Schoenbeck

School of Art, Art History, and Design: Theses and Student Creative Work

I notice with quiet thrill an individual object or shape such as a railing, an odd pattern in the cement, a handle that does not match the rest, or a surprisingly decorative form intended only for a useful purpose. Choosing a form for its potential function, strange shape or particular color, I filter it through my aesthetic. My mental repetition of the day’s stresses is changed into lighthearted wondering. Maybe that gate I passed could become a beautiful fanned shape, its silhouette in gold and pale green. It could be so tiny its functional life outdoors is transformed into delicate …


Downing, Joseph Dudley, 1925-2007 (Sc 2989), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2016

Downing, Joseph Dudley, 1925-2007 (Sc 2989), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2989. Items related to native Kentuckian and expatriate (France) artist Joe Downing collected by Benjamin L. and Louise Pritz of Cincinnati, Ohio. Items include notes and cards from Joe, correspondence with his brother, Dero Downing, numerous invitations and programs for Downing exhibitions, and a number of New Year cards featuring photographs of Joe and his art.


Producing Archival Works With Late Medieval/Early Renaissance Methods And Material, Alexandra Vernier Jan 2016

Producing Archival Works With Late Medieval/Early Renaissance Methods And Material, Alexandra Vernier

Conspectus Borealis

No abstract provided.


L'Art Et L'Amour À Travers Un Amour De Swann De Marcel Proust, Sarah M. Robertson Jan 2016

L'Art Et L'Amour À Travers Un Amour De Swann De Marcel Proust, Sarah M. Robertson

Scripps Senior Theses

The esteemed French author, Marcel Proust, revolutionized the way that literature fuses with visual art. Through the detail of his novella Un Amour de Swann, Proust creates a world in which the idolatry of a painting destines one man to a life void of fulfillment in love. This thesis explores the intrinsic connection of painting and literature to love through Proust’s treatment of the Botticelli fresco, Les Épreuves de Moïse, and the carefully crafted lesson that Proust teaches to integrate art into the fabric of life. Proust’s advice reaches far beyond the constraints of his own words, and …


Jasmine Greenwaldt: Continuum, Jasmine Elise Greenwaldt Jan 2016

Jasmine Greenwaldt: Continuum, Jasmine Elise Greenwaldt

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

I create in order to explore. I welcome the unexpected, not only in my art but in my life as well. The process of creation and exploration have just as much importance as the finished product itself. I seek to express emotion in my work, whether that be through color, brush strokes or simply the movement of paint. My thesis reflects all of the exploration I have done not only throughout graduate school but during my life. It has become a written book of my journey, demonstrated through the use of paint.