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Firing The Canon, John M. Byrd
Firing The Canon, John M. Byrd
Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014
Firing the Canon is written in conjunction with is namesake exhibition, prepared as a culmination of work leading to the master of fine arts degree. In an attempt to help viewers better understand my body of work, I discuss herein: events contributing to my personal narrative, major themes and their origins and pertinent sources of artistic and non-artistic inspiration.
Walks To Nowhere, Lauren Pleveich
Walks To Nowhere, Lauren Pleveich
Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014
This essay is an academic justification for a means of producing images explained mainly through ideas of experiential memory.
The Artist As Creator: The Theory Of Art In Du Fu's Poems About Paintings, James H. Edwards
The Artist As Creator: The Theory Of Art In Du Fu's Poems About Paintings, James H. Edwards
Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014
Du Fu is one of China's most celebrated and influential poets. His poems about paintings are a highly innovative subset of poems rich with imagery and emotion. Received ideas about these poems fail to account for any role played in them by Du's aesthetic ideas. This study analyses Du's poems about paintings in order to bring to light Du's theory of art. Du's theory of art combines ancient Chinese ideas about aesthetics, literature and the nature of humanity's relationship to the universe. These traditional ideas serve as the foundation for a unique theory. Du's theory of art posits the painter …
The End Of Histories, Joshua Field
The End Of Histories, Joshua Field
Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014
This M.F.A. thesis paper and exhibition explore the ephemerality of relationships as they are redefined by contiguity and recontextualization. My work derives from an investigation of alternative interpretive structures while retaining an overarching sense of narrative. This approach to painting relies on the human propensity to create organization in order to contend with chaos or overwhelming amounts of information. Traced back to curiosity cabinets or wunderkammers and forward through museums and encyclopedias, the organization of knowledge in both its diachronic and synchronic forms serves to collapse time and space. Geography and chronology become obsolete as relationships between images and objects …
Into Another, Sarah N. Purnell
Into Another, Sarah N. Purnell
Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014
Through a series of paintings, drawings, videos, and large-scale sculptures/installation, I intend to create an environment that explores relationships between the safe and the unsafe place, the sweet and the grotesque, the dream and the reality, and the remembered and the forgotten. I am investigating landscape and how it relates to the body, human relationships, memory, and status of being.
Vision And Contemplation: An Exploration Within The Medium, Mica Y. Pillemer
Vision And Contemplation: An Exploration Within The Medium, Mica Y. Pillemer
Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014
This thesis is an exploration of various issues concerning composition in painting. In it I take a step by step approach to advancing the compositional thought process. Within that exploration the central issues of painting are confronted and expanded upon.
Bang!, Kimberly C. Hennessy
Bang!, Kimberly C. Hennessy
Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014
BANG! is a thesis paper presented in conjunction with a visual art show that is made up of paintings, sculptures, and site specific installations. Primary ideas explored with the body of work are those of growth and expansion, energy, contradiction, excess, collection, play, drama, and nostalgia, specifically relating to color relationships and physical material.