Domestic/Terror,
2013
Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
Domestic/Terror, Charles Russell Durio
LSU Master's Theses
The focus of my studio work is an exploration of my interest in the physical and mental dynamics that take place within the confines of my home versus the world outside. The home, spatial arrangements (architecture, passageways), maritime disasters, and the ambiguity of abstract expressionism all have an identifiable impact on my images. Abstraction allows me to maintain a visual ambiguity that often reflects the ambiguity of the real-life situations on which they are based. My drawings are rooted in remembrances of events and interior architecture culled from childhood memories. It also explores the juxtaposition of domesticity and fear, both …
Now And Then,
2013
Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
Now And Then, Scottt Arthur
LSU Master's Theses
I am interested in painting that begins in observation and manifests itself as a meeting ground of the subject and myself. My paintings explore color and spatial relationships as well as a surface that is manipulated over time. I often paint from nature on site as well as from small sketches and drawings that are later brought back to the studio and painted on a larger scale.
Without Words : An Exhibition Of Functional Objects,
2013
Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
Without Words : An Exhibition Of Functional Objects, Paul William Callahan
LSU Master's Theses
At the core of my artwork lie two essential goals, to make objects that convey my understanding of beauty, and while doing this, to preserve the objects functional qualities. The materials that I select to build with, primarily wood and porcelain, are renown for their durability and longevity, resulting in objects that become a permanent fixture in the life of the user. Through utility, the things that I create infiltrate the lives of those around me and provide an entry point for a conversation between myself and the user via the object. Newly developed technological methods are an integral component …
Suspensory Filaments,
2013
Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
Suspensory Filaments, Santiago Pineda
LSU Master's Theses
The interrelationships between vision, desire, and language are the elements that drive my artistic practice. “What is seeing?” “How is seeing related to desire?” These questions are at the base of my interests. I recognize optics as a subset of perception, yet I strive to reform them into interchangeable components. My interest in optics is based on doubt. I’m not interested in optic’s correctness, clinical orientation, or current sophistication, but rather in undermining its limitations. Our culture still struggles to absorb the notion of the sentient being, one example is our acuity of vision being standardized to 20/20. Within my …
Temporal Cycles,
2013
Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
Temporal Cycles, Sarah Anne Shearer
LSU Master's Theses
Temporal Cycles explores how systems and changes in the human body parallel those in nature. The investigation takes the form of a print installation, which captures the essence of bodily processes. The serial nature of printmaking and the organic world plays an important role as biomorphic forms and hourglass shapes are repeated in numerous renditions that breathe, pulse, expand, wither, ovulate, and transform. Labyrinths of pattern, texture, and color connect the symbolic forms as the installation tracks the evolution of processes in the body, and the forms reveal themselves through their pictorial associations.
Conditions Of My Release,
2013
Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
Conditions Of My Release, Michael Alford
LSU Master's Theses
ABSTRACT From the dawn of human history, technology has driven and shaped our evolution as a species. It has vastly accelerated our ability to communicate, create, conquer and do more with less time, space and energy. Throughout the history of Art, technology has forged new methods, movements and Masters. “Conditions Of My Release” is a series of mixed media works that utilizes a variety of common and cutting edge technologies as a way to explore the relevance of “Time & Space” as an influential medium in artistic production. Have they been masked or obscured by the technology used to create …
Stillnoticing,
2013
Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
Stillnoticing, Roberta Ann Massuch
LSU Master's Theses
The installation stillNoticing contains ceramic still lifes and drawings that illustrate and bring permanence to ephemeral and fleeting moments. The work is an attempt to share my experience of being captivated by the phenomenon of light affecting the perception of objects and spaces. These moments are often found in familiar spaces, with familiar objects. Each work addresses a particular type of looking: one in which the act of noticing an object transforming from one moment to the next becomes a silent, almost meditative experience.
Pathos, Winter 2013,
2013
Portland State University
Pathos, Winter 2013, Portland State University. Student Publications Board
Pathos
Editor: Deena Anreise
Murals Take On New Form And Purposes,
2013
CUNY Bernard M Baruch College
Murals Take On New Form And Purposes, Aldemaro Romero Jr.
Publications and Research
No abstract provided.
Reconsidering Brazilian Representations In Choros No. 5 And Bachianas Brasileiras No.4 For Piano By Heitor Villa-Lobos,
2013
University of Kentucky
Reconsidering Brazilian Representations In Choros No. 5 And Bachianas Brasileiras No.4 For Piano By Heitor Villa-Lobos, Paula Maria Lima Galama
Theses and Dissertations--Music
This study offers a reconsideration of the music of Villa-Lobos and its relationship to diverse musical expressions and musical syntheses in Brazil. Its primary purpose is to present a line of interpretative thought for Heitor Villa-Lobos’s piano compositions, emphasizing significant elements reflective of the folk and popular culture of Brazil that the composer integrates with stylistic features influenced by European art music traditions. It highlights Villa-Lobos’s adaptation of characteristic Brazilian dances, dance rhythms, melodies, direct quotations, and fragments of folk and popular tunes in Choros no. 5 (Alma Brasileira) and Bachianas Brasileiras no. 4 (Brazilian Bachianas no. 4). In the …
The Collaged Practice : (Un)Familiar,
2013
Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
The Collaged Practice : (Un)Familiar, Raina Beth Wirta
LSU Master's Theses
My thesis exhibition is an installation of works including sculpture, video, paintings, a hand made book, sound, and drawings that emanated from a series of two-dimensional collages: self-contained forms that evoke the surreal, (un)familiar, and/or grotesque. Infused with a sort of mysterious being-hood and intended to inspire curiosity (at the least), they are unfamiliar in relation to a particular biological thing, but (mostly) recognizable in the autonomous bits and pieces. I seek to question where our physicality ends and the next form of biological life begins, and our responses to that physicality. With childlike inquisitiveness and wonder, and a healthy …
Illuminating Emotional States Through Portraiture,
2013
Macalester College
Illuminating Emotional States Through Portraiture, Taylor Champoux
Art and Art History Honors Projects
No abstract provided.
Dreaming,
2013
Nova Southeastern University
Still Life,
2013
Nova Southeastern University
Still Life, Natalie Hernadez
Digressions: Literary & Art Journal
No abstract provided.
Untitled,
2013
Nova Southeastern University
Untitled, Alexandra Hernandez
Digressions: Literary & Art Journal
No abstract provided.
From Below,
2013
Macalester College
Gilda's Gowns,
2013
Brigham Young University
Gilda's Gowns, Rachel Ann Wise
AWE (A Woman’s Experience)
Critics have overanalyzed the portrayal of the femme fatale in film noir as female ruthless seduction in attempts to overpower men. However, a paramount aspect of the femme fatale has been under analyzed—women’s use of and exploitation of fashion. In film noir, Gilda particularly showcases the importance of fashion in the film’s plot. Gilda’s undressing and dressing in the film signifies the multifarious personalities and complexity of the femme fatale character. In understand Gilda’s character via her diegetic, fashionable, and mutable clothes, the femme fatale is exposed as a complex being defying stereotype by the variety of her wardrobe, but …
An Actor On The Line: Becoming Judy Turner In A Chorus Line,
2013
Minnesota State University - Mankato
An Actor On The Line: Becoming Judy Turner In A Chorus Line, Morgan Mallory
All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects
It is a detailed account of author Morgan Mallory's artistic process in creating the role of Judy Turner in the Minnesota State University, Mankato's production of A Chorus Line in the Fall of 2012. The thesis follows the actor's process beginning with the early production analysis in the first chapter. The actor then discusses the work in its historical context followed by a detailed journal of the acting process in chapters two and three. Chapter four is the post-production analysis and the fifth chapter gives an overview of Mallory's growth and process through her time at Minnesota State Mankato. Appendices …
Scene Design Of A Chorus Line,
2013
Minnesota State University - Mankato
Scene Design Of A Chorus Line, Naoko Ishizuka Skala
All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects
This document is a detailed account of Naoko Skala's design process for A Chorus Line by James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante. It is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Fine Arts in Theatre from Minnesota State University, Mankato. These documents trace the design process from the designer's preproduction analysis, historical and critical analysis and post production analysis of the effort. Included also is the designer's journal which documents the process chronologically from its inception through its realization. Finally, the designer has provided an analysis of her overall artistic development as it has been …
The Process Of Directing Edward Albee's The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia,
2013
Minnesota State University - Mankato
The Process Of Directing Edward Albee's The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia, Shelley Whitehead
All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects
This paper will follow director Shelley Whitehead's process of bringing The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? by Edward Albee to production at Minnesota State University, Mankato. Within the paper the director discusses her initial concepts and ideas; a historical look at the playwright and play; journals regarding the rehearsal and performance process; a dissection of that process to ascertain success or failure of the ideas set forth in the first chapter; and a final look at how her years at Minnesota State Mankato shaped her as a director. Included in the paper is an Appendix to supplement the paper's findings. …
