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The Modern Artist's Psyche: Making Meaning In Art Through History, Jenna Banks Dec 2023

The Modern Artist's Psyche: Making Meaning In Art Through History, Jenna Banks

Theses

The Modern Artist’s Psyche: Making Meaning in Art Through History provides a way for students to study and analyze works by Modern artists that explore themes like loneliness, isolation, anxiety, and despair. By studying these artists and their works, students learn about topics like art appreciation and psychoanalysis; specifically, how each artist used their mental state to create their visual products. Students learn about art appreciation through the process of discussing and answering questions about specific art works. Students also study the concept of psychoanalysis, relating to theories and techniques that have been used by Modern artists. This connects to …


Enchanted South Tarot: A Contemporary Interpretation Of Tarot, Hannah Mathis Dec 2023

Enchanted South Tarot: A Contemporary Interpretation Of Tarot, Hannah Mathis

Theses

This project uses qualitative research to create an original 78-card tarot deck. Its focus is to create a tarot deck informed by the rich history and symbolism of tarot while utilizing original art and unique experiences to create a one-of-a-kind deck. The deck’s artwork showcases flora, fauna, and manufactured objects of the Southeastern United States, referencing traditional tarot archetypes to select each card’s imagery. The deck’s guidebook introduces readers to some of the history of tarot and several historical and contemporary decks that inspired the Enchanted South deck. The project emphasizes tarot’s evolution and how each artist’s contribution adds layers …


Ai And The Creative Process: Part Three, James Hutson Oct 2023

Ai And The Creative Process: Part Three, James Hutson

Faculty Scholarship

Article discussing the effects of artificial intelligence on the creative process in the art world.


Ai And The Creative Process: Part Two, James Hutson Oct 2023

Ai And The Creative Process: Part Two, James Hutson

Faculty Scholarship

Article discussing the effects of artificial intelligence on the creative process in the art world.


Integrating Art And Design With Environmental Science, Laura D. Hinson May 2023

Integrating Art And Design With Environmental Science, Laura D. Hinson

The Confluence

This article demonstrates how combining art and design and environmental sciences would benefit both fields by analyzing how utilizing art and design in environmental sciences can help enhance aspects of the teaching process and environmental studies, specifically those dealing with climatology and pollution. Additionally, by taking an ecocritical approach to analyzing art and its creation, this article will detail how artists can become more conscious of the impacts creating certain types of art has on the environment while also noting environmental changes documented through art.


A Study Of Wicca And Art, Shannon Hillyer May 2023

A Study Of Wicca And Art, Shannon Hillyer

Theses

Art can be interpreted from a religious perspective given knowledge of the artist’s present or past religious affiliations. The photo series presented in this paper was part of a survey that asked participants to consider their own religious backgrounds and to determine the inspiration for the photo series. This project utilized introspection, autoethnographic research, and formalist analysis to determine if viewers could pinpoint the artist’s religious affiliation based on the themes present in the photo series. Most participants identified mythological themes were present in the series but didn’t connect those to Wicca unanimously. Art can be interpreted from a religious …


Reconsidering Gender And Social Constructs In Prehistoric Cave Art: The Role Of Women In Creating Art, Amanda Mooney May 2023

Reconsidering Gender And Social Constructs In Prehistoric Cave Art: The Role Of Women In Creating Art, Amanda Mooney

Theses

This thesis reviews the importance of Prehistoric Cave Art and the partial basis of its creation, including some ways in which gender and society of the time influenced and led to the creation of said art, with a considerable focus on the devaluation that women have faced as artists in prehistory. The timeframe under consideration follows the Upper Paleolithic period, which covers 50,000 years ago to 10,000 years ago. Reviewing images from certain cave art in this time period of 50,000 years ago to 10,000 years ago, and recent scholarship allows for a specific look into the assumptions of who …


Beyond Elements And Principles: Bringing A Visual Culture Curriculum To High School Art, Julie Winston Dec 2022

Beyond Elements And Principles: Bringing A Visual Culture Curriculum To High School Art, Julie Winston

Theses

The elements and principles of design are the building blocks that art students use to create a composition. These foundational tools have been used by art students throughout their elementary and secondary school years, as required by state and national art standards. This project is an example of how to enrich high school introductory art classes by implementing lessons that include visual culture education. A combination of successful art museum teen programs and existing visual culture curriculum were used to aid in the development of a semester’s worth of lessons that emphasize visual culture. Visual culture curricula produces more student …


World War Ii American Propaganda: The Art And Appeal Behind Women On The Domestic Front, Katherine Grace Noe Aug 2022

World War Ii American Propaganda: The Art And Appeal Behind Women On The Domestic Front, Katherine Grace Noe

Theses

While men served their country through military duty during the second World War, women were encouraged to do their part in ways that challenged their traditional roles as the American housewife. Because so many men were off at the front, the United States government had to create new ways to manipulate and persuade American women to join the workforce. Posters and other media featured strong, relatable women and phrases that encouraged women to serve. Propaganda not only suggested how women should act, but also manipulated society’s view of women’s role in the war efforts. Most people are familiar with iconic …


Portraits: A Study In Objects, Family Relations, And Race, Julie Quintero Dec 2021

Portraits: A Study In Objects, Family Relations, And Race, Julie Quintero

Theses

My final project is a body of mixed-media portraits which were exhibited at SculptureWorks Ferguson in December, 2021. Each of the twenty works are visual representations of events, identities, or relationships, experienced in both the past and the present. The materials used to help push each narrative include fabric, yarn, coffee filters, embroidery, wood, stain, plaster, metal, concrete, inks, conte, paints, and/or found objects. Each piece demonstrates a unique combination of image, media, and technique in the field of contemporary art. Some of the works include objects made by the people being portrayed. Others include materials that were acquired via …


Cannibalizing The Popular Work Of Barbara Wagner, Beatriz Arcoverde De Oliveira Jul 2021

Cannibalizing The Popular Work Of Barbara Wagner, Beatriz Arcoverde De Oliveira

Theses

This project offers an analysis of the appropriation of popular culture aesthetics and imagery in contemporary art through a critical examination of the work of Brazilian artist Barbara Wagner. Wagner’s work contributes to an understanding of this increasing tendency, and also fosters the possibility of a discussion about its consequences in the social world, in creating a paradox of both challenging colonized sensibilities, and also working to maintain a structure of social inequality. Her work is also a good way to discuss the expanding contemporary definitions of popular culture


Scenes Of Secession: National Identity In The Art And Architecture Of Southern Slavic Crownlands Of The Late Austro-Hungarian Empire, Preston Alport Hereford Aug 2020

Scenes Of Secession: National Identity In The Art And Architecture Of Southern Slavic Crownlands Of The Late Austro-Hungarian Empire, Preston Alport Hereford

Theses

Set against the backdrop of the segmented power of the Double Monarchy of the Austro- Hungarian Empire, artistic Secession movements reminiscent of the influential movement in Vienna took shape in the smaller cities of the Southern Slavic crownland territories of the Empire. However, despite strong cultural ties to Vienna and other large artistic centers like Munich, Secession took on different ideological and artistic forms in Zagreb and Ljubljana than in the imperial capital. As the Hungarian-administered capital of Croatia-Slavonia, Zagreb was an early adopter of educational and cultural infrastructure, like schools of applied arts and new theaters, that doubly demonstrated …


The Lady, Kara Neely May 2018

The Lady, Kara Neely

Arrow Rock

No abstract provided.


Deer Diagram, Kara Neely May 2018

Deer Diagram, Kara Neely

Arrow Rock

No abstract provided.


Rational Structure, Juan Requena May 2018

Rational Structure, Juan Requena

Arrow Rock

No abstract provided.


Some Poison, Some Requena May 2018

Some Poison, Some Requena

Arrow Rock

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The Twilight Of The Gods, Juan Requena May 2018

The Twilight Of The Gods, Juan Requena

Arrow Rock

No abstract provided.


A Fall Day, Miranda L. Motes May 2016

A Fall Day, Miranda L. Motes

Arrow Rock

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Fog, Kristine Wagner May 2016

Fog, Kristine Wagner

Arrow Rock

No abstract provided.


Inner Voice, Mai Urai May 2016

Inner Voice, Mai Urai

Arrow Rock

No abstract provided.


The Antique, Mai Urai May 2016

The Antique, Mai Urai

Arrow Rock

No abstract provided.


Die In Bloom, Haruka Kawata May 2016

Die In Bloom, Haruka Kawata

Arrow Rock

No abstract provided.


A Dark And Snowy Knight, Stephanie Ricker May 2016

A Dark And Snowy Knight, Stephanie Ricker

Arrow Rock

No abstract provided.


Small Foot, Big Leaf, Rachel Schuldt May 2016

Small Foot, Big Leaf, Rachel Schuldt

Arrow Rock

No abstract provided.


Lightening, Haruka Kawata May 2016

Lightening, Haruka Kawata

Arrow Rock

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Manar, Haruka Kawata May 2016

Manar, Haruka Kawata

Arrow Rock

No abstract provided.


Out Of 202, Brenden Kleiboeker May 2016

Out Of 202, Brenden Kleiboeker

Arrow Rock

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Blues Pop, Haruka Kawata May 2016

Blues Pop, Haruka Kawata

Arrow Rock

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Fiiiiiire, Rachel Schuldt May 2016

Fiiiiiire, Rachel Schuldt

Arrow Rock

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Stairs To The Uranium Deposit, Rachel Schuldt Nov 2015

Stairs To The Uranium Deposit, Rachel Schuldt

Arrow Rock

No abstract provided.