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Visual Notes, Fragments And Allusions: Drawing And Painting Thesis, Barbara Black

Dissertations and Theses

The thesis discusses drawings and paintings completed during the period of study from October, 1975 to April, 1977 and presented at the Department of Art and Architecture Gallery April 21, 1977 to May 13, 1977.

Salt Lick School, Cliff Johnson

Morehead State University Art Collection

A 1977 painting of the Salt Lick School in Floyd County, Kentucky by Cliff Johnson.

Middle Fork Of Ball Creek, Cliff Johnson

Morehead State University Art Collection

A 1977 painting of Middle Fork of Ball Creek in Knott County, Kentucky by Cliff Johnson.

Clear Creek School, Cliff Johnson

Morehead State University Art Collection

A 1977 painting of the Clear Creek School in Rowan County, Kentucky by Cliff Johnson.

Objectivity And New Realist Painting, Jacky Palman

Masters Theses

This thesis describes the methods of New Realist painting ( also known as Sharp-Focus Realism, Photo-Realism, Super Realism and Hyper-Realism ) and its philosophy of objectivity behind the photographic approach and the choice of subject-matter. It also points out that this aim for total objectivity is ultimately unattainable.

A definition of New Realism in painting follows in Chapter One, which also deals with the factors separating it from other photographically realistic styles - the primary distinction being the constant striving of New Realism for complete objectivity.

Chapter Two deals with the influences responsible for the emergence of New Realism. Pop …

Paint Application: Theories And Techniques, Nancy King Mertz

Masters Theses

Is art an inborn source of power or do daily experiences create artistic drives? I am strongly convinced there are biological forces creating these urges in all of us. Many of us, however, are denied the free expression of artistic impulse because of our compulsion toward the social concept of normality; the creative impulses are ignored until, finally, the ability and urge completely diminish.

However, states Joyce Cary, "Those of us who obtain solitude in thought, create freedom of mind; each of us is compelled to form our own ideas of things." If we wish to convey these ideas or …

Selected Poems Of Abdul Ghafar Ibrahim, Abdul Ghafar Ibrahim

Masters Theses

Is poetry art or is art poetry? Or what is poetry? What is art? There is art in creating poetry. And there are the poetic elements in creating painting/any form of art.

I have been involved in writing poetry since I was in high school. My first poem was published in 1965. During that time I also received formal training in art. Writing poetry to me then was only putting together words and phrases into ideas and stories. And painting to me at that time was selecting and juxtaposing colors into beautiful pictures on canvas.

Man changes in ideas, ideals …

Figurative Painting And It's Reverberation In Pairs, Carol Crampton Adams

Dissertations and Theses

The thesis discusses twelve paintings completed during the period of study from October of 1974 to November of 1976 and presented at the Art and Architecture Gallery, November 8, 1976 - November 26, 1976.

An Exploration Of The Familiar And Nostalgic, Laura Paul

Dissertations and Theses

This thesis discusses forty paintings completed during the period of study from October of 1974 and presented at the Art and Architecture Gallery, May 26, 1976-June 11, 1976.

Trinity School, Cliff Johnson

Morehead State University Art Collection

A 1976 painting of the Trinity School in Lawrence County, Kentucky by Cliff Johnson.

Island Fork School, Cliff Johnson

Morehead State University Art Collection

A 1976 painting of the Island Fork School in Rowan County, Kentucky by Cliff Johnson.

Kingdom Come School, Cliff Johnson

Morehead State University Art Collection

A 1976 painting of the Kingdom Come School in Letcher County, Kentucky by Cliff Johnson.

Kingdom Come School, Cliff Johnson

Morehead State University Art Collection

A 1976 painting of the Kingdom Come School in Letcher County, Kentucky by Cliff Johnson.

Daniel's Creek School, Cliff Johnson

Morehead State University Art Collection

A 1976 painting of the Daniel's Creek School of Banner, Kentucky by Cliff Johnson.

Sharky School, Cliff Johnson

Morehead State University Art Collection

A 1976 painting of the Sharky School in Rowan County, Kentucky by Cliff Johnson.

Little Red School, Cliff Johnson

Morehead State University Art Collection

A 1976 painting of the Little Red School in Wolfe County, Kentucky by Cliff Johnson.

Wilted Roses, Eddie Horton

Morehead State University Art Collection

A 1976 etching titled "Wilted Roses" by artist Eddie Horton.

Vortex School, Cliff Johnson

Morehead State University Art Collection

A 1975 painting of the Vortex School in Wolfe County, Kentucky by Cliff Johnson.

Kingdom Come School, Cliff Johnson

Morehead State University Art Collection

A 1975 painting of the Kingdom Come School in Letcher County, Kentucky by Cliff Johnson.

Cora Wilson Stewart Moonlight School, Cliff Johnson

Morehead State University Art Collection

A 1975 painting of the Cora Wilson Stewart Moonlight School in Morehead, Kentucky by Cliff Johnson.

The Venus Image, William Jay Masterson

Art & Art History ETDs

The Venus image has been described as the presentation of the obsessive, unreasonable nature of physical desire in a form that ceases to be vulgar and becomes "celestial". This characterization is similar to the major pictorial content of my paintings which deals with the repression of desire for a subtly appealing figure. This study explains and brings into perspective this dominant theme in my work through a description of the pictorial and formal aspects of my paintings and a comparison of my work to the work of four contemporary American painters who have dealt with the female figure in their …

Ivory Billed Woodpecker, John A. Ruthven

Morehead State University Art Collection

A 1974 watercolor print of two birds on a tree branch by artist John A Ruthven.

Birds In The Forest, Francoise Gilot

Morehead State University Art Collection

A 1974 color print titled "Bird in the Forest" by Francoise Gilot.

A Comparative Analysis Of Selected Twentieth Century Watercolorists, Bonnie L. Ferguson

Masters Theses

My objectives in writing this paper were to research selected watercolorists whose work I admire and whose work bears a relationship to my own, and to make a comparative analysis. In the process of research, I found that not all of the work of the artists I had chosen related totally to my own, but there was at least one of the basic elements that did apply. I wanted to learn from looking at their work and reading about their philosophies. That I did; and it has stimulated in me many thoughts and plans, wishes to try some of their …

The "Illuminusion" Concept, Ray Murman

Masters Theses

My intention in painting and drawing is to demonstrate luminous effects in an atmospheric field.

In painting, attention is directed to various color impressions. A color may be perceived as iridescent, metallic, filmy, voluminous, hard, etc. Also, an overall tinted atmosphere establishes a misty field in which these color impressions are displayed. A systematically prepared palette of adjusted colors is then formed. The idea is a planned color effect transforming design elements.

In drawing, light and dark contrast control sets the illumination character. Various graphitic media are used to render atmospheric perspective and delineate objects in space. Impressions of texture, …

Beyond Noah's Arc, Ten Panel Polyptych, Dennis D. Berger

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Photo-Image: Its Transformation And Reformation, John Lim

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Development Of An Idea, Marianne Stikas

Theses and Dissertations

Whereas certain people start with a recollection or an experience and paint that experience, to some of us the act of doing it becomes the experience; so that we are not quite clear why we are engaged in a particular work. And because we are more interested in plastic matters than we are in a matter of words one can begin a picture and carry it through and stop it and do nothing about the title at all.

I believe that this statement by Baziotes has a great deal to do with the way I feel about my painting. Perhaps …

Ua77/1 Western Alumnus, Vol. 42, No. 6, Wku Alumni Association

WKU Administration Documents

Alumni magazine published by WKU. This issue has the following articles:

• Wood, Willson. He Did Not Teach Art - He Taught People - Ivan Wilson
• Dixon, Frances. Russell Miller - Benevolent Despot of Western Theatre
• The Ivan Wilson Center for Fine Arts
• Conway, Sheila. For New Center . . . A Fine Arts Send-Off - Ivan Wilson Hall
• Hackney, Karen & Richard Hackney. Soaring in '77: Satellite Research
• Branham, Judy. Homecoming 1973
• Conway, Sheila. Music, By Gemini! - Gemini 15
• Given, Ed. For More Than A-Mews-ment - Marvin Mews
• Dunn, Thomas. WKU Professors Complete International TV Research
• Remember 1966-67
• Pomp, …

Portrait Of Mignon Doran, Unknown

Morehead State University Art Collection

An unsigned 1973 charcoal portrait of Mignon Doran.