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Full-Text Articles in Fine Arts
Catalogue And Inventory Of Manuscripts In The Primrose International Viola Archive, Leslie Jean Richards, Dr. Claudine Bigelow
Catalogue And Inventory Of Manuscripts In The Primrose International Viola Archive, Leslie Jean Richards, Dr. Claudine Bigelow
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Brigham Young University houses the Primrose International Viola Archive, the largest repository of viola music in the world. In addition to sheet music for the viola, this collection also includes recordings, photographs, books, violas, and many manuscripts penned or edited by Primrose himself. These
Pro-America Or Pro-Mexico: The Role Of The Spanish-American Press In The Southwest, Kelly K. Wight, Dr. Alf Pratte
Pro-America Or Pro-Mexico: The Role Of The Spanish-American Press In The Southwest, Kelly K. Wight, Dr. Alf Pratte
Journal of Undergraduate Research
During the Mexican-American War (1846-1848), violent movements against the United States of America sprang up throughout all of southern Mexico. A huge surge of Mexican patriotism united most of the Mexican citizens against the United States and its influence on their culture. This sense of Mexican patriotism did not exist in the northern parts of Mexico, however. In the areas of California to Texas that were once a part of Mexico, virtually no uprisings or movements occurred resisting the assimilation of these areas into the United States of America. The Mexicans in these areas typically accepted the United States as …
Understanding Islam Through Art Education, Amy Blake Spencer, Donna Kay Beattie
Understanding Islam Through Art Education, Amy Blake Spencer, Donna Kay Beattie
Journal of Undergraduate Research
With the magnitude of the conflicts in the middle-east, it is increasingly important to teach students tolerance for people of the Islamic faith. As an Art Educator, I found this an ideal time and opportunity to research the many aspects of Islamic art and to encapsulate these principles into a visual arts curriculum unit for students at the ninth and tenth grade levels. The unit includes all elements of Art Education: Art History, Studio, Aesthetics, Art Criticism, and Visual Culture.
Of Tradition And Decision: The Seeds Of Life Within Us, Chelsy Smith Walker, Bryon Draper
Of Tradition And Decision: The Seeds Of Life Within Us, Chelsy Smith Walker, Bryon Draper
Journal of Undergraduate Research
“Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors,” said Ralph Waldo Emerson. This ancestral quotation created a dialogue that later became an exhibition. My lifelong dream became a reality through the realization of a one-woman show in Gallery 303 of the Harris Fine Arts Center at Brigham Young University. The show was exhibited March 18-27, 2003, and discussed intergenerational change, the traditions and habits we carry from our parents, and the influence we have on our children. Viewers were prompted to muse upon the path that they had traveled because of the road their ancestors have taken, to contemplate …
Microbes: An Educational Picture Book, Heather Stratton, Richard Hull, William Mccleary
Microbes: An Educational Picture Book, Heather Stratton, Richard Hull, William Mccleary
Journal of Undergraduate Research
With all the hype and paranoia in our media today about disease causing microbes, the need arises for a more complete picture of these tiny organisms and some of their other roles in our lives to be presented. I have written a children’s story in an attempt to do just this. The book is titled Microbes. It is an acknowledgement of the dangers of microorganisms, but also an explanation of their necessary influence.
Summary Of Creative Research Grant And Artistic Statement, Jason E. Steed, Linda Sullivan
Summary Of Creative Research Grant And Artistic Statement, Jason E. Steed, Linda Sullivan
Journal of Undergraduate Research
On receiving my ORCA Scholarship funding, I began development for an interactive multimedia CD ROM project for the BYU Museum of Art. I presented my research and proposal to David Hawkinson, photographer for the museum, and he offered me insight as to where the emphasis of this project should be placed. I directed my scope to one exhibit, 150 Years of American Painting from 1794-1944. This is the only permanent collection at the museum, and all property and copyrights are owned by the MOA.
Images Of Newspapers In American Genre Painting From 1830 To 1865, Jonathan Wardle, Dr. P. Alf Pratte
Images Of Newspapers In American Genre Painting From 1830 To 1865, Jonathan Wardle, Dr. P. Alf Pratte
Journal of Undergraduate Research
At the suggestion of a professor, I wrote a 20-page term paper on images of newspapers in American genre painting for a history of communications class. At first I was going to conduct a general survey of images of newspapers and journalists in American art, but some interesting findings in my early research prompted me to take a more detailed look at images of newspapers in genre painting, specifically from 1830 to 1865.
The Bare Mannequins Of Raphael Soyer: Images Of Depression Era America, Michelle E. Lee, Dr. Mark Magleby
The Bare Mannequins Of Raphael Soyer: Images Of Depression Era America, Michelle E. Lee, Dr. Mark Magleby
Journal of Undergraduate Research
During the tumultuous years following the crash of the New York Stock Market in October 1929 and the Great Depression, a great need emerged to provide the millions of unemployed with some type of meaningful employment. One of the groups to be hit the hardest was the country’s struggling artists. As one historian aptly stated, “There had never been a time in our history when artists were so personally affected by physical need, so involved in economic action, so moved to political expression and organization, or so caught up in esthetic debate.”1 Because so many had been touched, artists became …
Illustrations For Aesop’S Fables: The Creation Of A Series With A Preliminary Historical And Aesthetic Analysis, Alisa L. Gordon, Robert Barrett, Richard Hull
Illustrations For Aesop’S Fables: The Creation Of A Series With A Preliminary Historical And Aesthetic Analysis, Alisa L. Gordon, Robert Barrett, Richard Hull
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Aesop’s fables are some of the most well known stories, as well as some of the most widely illustrated. They are typically very short, have only a few characters, and have a simple plot. Consequently, the stories provide excellent subject matters for pieces in my illustration portfolio. I can communicate a story in one image, be imaginative, and still expect the story to be recognizable. Art directors will immediately be able to assess my visual story-telling abilities as well as my creativity through my interpretation of some of these well known stories. My objective is to create a series of …
Superimposition Of Cultures, Becky Ravenberg, Dr. Mark Magleby
Superimposition Of Cultures, Becky Ravenberg, Dr. Mark Magleby
Journal of Undergraduate Research
By means of my photography, I have highlighted the Anglo and Hispanic communities that are in the immediate proximity of this university and in other communities in Utah County. I did this by superimposing photos of both cultures. These photo illustrations were displayed in two separate shows.
Thoughts Collected, Brandon Gunn, Wayne Kimball
Thoughts Collected, Brandon Gunn, Wayne Kimball
Journal of Undergraduate Research
I have decided that memories are like layers of clear plastic with writing on them. As one sheet is held, it can be read clearly. When another is placed on top of it, the writing changes, as well as its meaning. Different words are placed next to each other than those that appear on each sheet alone. When a third sheet is added, what was one readable may turn in to an illegible mess, though the clarity and meaning of each individual sheet remains intact. When the words are replaced with pictures, the pictures too are able to modify each …
Media & Communications In Mongolia, Mikell Johnson, Joel Campbell
Media & Communications In Mongolia, Mikell Johnson, Joel Campbell
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Mongolia is located just north of China and south of eastern Russia. The country is occupies 1.565 million square miles (CIA) yet is home to a small population of about 2.7 million Mongolians. Mongolians are a nomadic people by tradition and nearly half of the population still practices this lifestyle. From 1921 until 1990 Mongolia was ruled under a communist form of government. This fact had a huge impact on the way new communication and media technologies were implemented in Mongolia’s public. This paper will first attempt to give an accurate description of historical communication and media advances in Mongolia …
Restoration Of 52 Transcription Disc, Samuel Mcguire, David Day
Restoration Of 52 Transcription Disc, Samuel Mcguire, David Day
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Recently a donation was made to the Harold B. Lee Library of 52 transcriptions discs made of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir from the 1940s. These discs were originally made from radio broadcasts of Music and the Spoken Word and then shipped out to be played by other radio stations outside of Utah.
Techniques Of Ceramic Artists In Senegal, West Africa, Amy Beth Harrison, Von Allen
Techniques Of Ceramic Artists In Senegal, West Africa, Amy Beth Harrison, Von Allen
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Information is essential for ceramic artists to increase technical knowledge and as a source of inspiration. With the chance of visiting Senegal, West Africa on a study abroad, I wanted to take advantage of my time there to research the techniques of ceramic artists. My goal was to find out how ceramic artists were working and present this information to students at BYU. I also wanted to acknowledge the contributions of undocumented artists.
The Hidden Genius Of Hans Memling, Courtney Jensen, Dr. Martha Peacock
The Hidden Genius Of Hans Memling, Courtney Jensen, Dr. Martha Peacock
Journal of Undergraduate Research
The fifteenth century heralded a revolution in Northern painting, known as the Northern Renaissance. This movement was headed by the Flemish Primitifs, a group of artists who created works of unprecedented naturalism. A key player in this movement was Hans Memling. Although born in Germany, he adopted the Flemish style, with its intense detail and rich, glowing colors.
Marion Mahony Griffin: A Female Architect And Her Designs, Emily Morris, Dr. Heather Jensen
Marion Mahony Griffin: A Female Architect And Her Designs, Emily Morris, Dr. Heather Jensen
Journal of Undergraduate Research
When one thinks back to the architecture of the early 20th Century, names such as Louis Sullivan, Mies Van der Rohe, and Frank Lloyd Wright will be the first to come to mind. Rarely does the name of a female architect come to the thoughts of one who is not familiar with architectural history. Although these names are less familiar to us, they are by no means less important. At a time when there did not seem to be a place for women in architectural history, a few, such as Marion Mahony Griffin, were already making history. Women in modern …
Late Hellenistic And Roman Era Collections Of The Palmyra Museum: Exhibition Design And Catalogue Publication Of Palmyrene Funerary Portraits In Tadmor, Syria, Wendy Carr, Dr. Cynthia Finlayson
Late Hellenistic And Roman Era Collections Of The Palmyra Museum: Exhibition Design And Catalogue Publication Of Palmyrene Funerary Portraits In Tadmor, Syria, Wendy Carr, Dr. Cynthia Finlayson
Journal of Undergraduate Research
The faculty mentor for my project was Dr. Cynthia Finlayson of the Art History Department. The work I proposed to perform with Dr. Finlayson centered around five years of her previous research in Syrian museums. Dr. Finlayson had studied the ancient oasis city of Palmyra in Syria, including the female portrait busts placed at the head of funerary monuments. The ancient city of Palmyra (today Tadmor) contains centuries of history from the Roman occupation and remains today as a melting pot of cultures and peoples.
Understanding The Gothic Revivalist Richard Upjohn, Ashley A. Allen, Dr. Charles Mark Hamilton
Understanding The Gothic Revivalist Richard Upjohn, Ashley A. Allen, Dr. Charles Mark Hamilton
Journal of Undergraduate Research
The Gothic Revival was an important architectural movement of the nineteenth century. It was a result of the nineteenth century Romantic fascination with the Middle Ages. People looked to that era for inspiration in all arts, including architecture.
The Gothic Revival, David Amott, Dr. Cynthia Finlayson
The Gothic Revival, David Amott, Dr. Cynthia Finlayson
Journal of Undergraduate Research
The Gothic Revival was an important architectural movement of the nineteenth century. It was a result of the nineteenth century Romantic fascination with the Middle Ages. People looked to that era for inspiration in all arts, including architecture. The United States had no authentic Gothic background, so the architect Richard Upjohn became a key player in the Gothic Revival movement there. He transplanted the style of architecture from his native England to the young nation. Among his many commissions were the Trinity Church and the Church of the Holy Communion, both located in New York City.
Film Classification Systems As Indicators Of Cultural Values: An Exploratory Cross-National Study, Marin Turley Bradshaw, Eliza Tanner Hawkins
Film Classification Systems As Indicators Of Cultural Values: An Exploratory Cross-National Study, Marin Turley Bradshaw, Eliza Tanner Hawkins
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Virtually every country has developed some kind of a film classification system. In the United States the classification system is more commonly known as a film’s “rating.” The purposes of the classification are (1) to protect vulnerable audiences, especially young children and (2) to allow film makers to show their work in public theaters for the development of art in the country. These systems have evolved over time due to trends in media effects research and, more importantly, the cultural values and social mores of the societies where the classification systems are developed. Just as no group of people has …
Identifying And Integrating Communication Theories In The Social Sciences: The Pursuit Of A Universal Communication Model, Christopher C. Pope, Dr. Ed Adams
Identifying And Integrating Communication Theories In The Social Sciences: The Pursuit Of A Universal Communication Model, Christopher C. Pope, Dr. Ed Adams
Journal of Undergraduate Research
The complexity of communication as a concept is staggering. Few words in our modern vocabulary are used in as many contexts and with as many meanings as communication. We have anchored many of our modern hopes to the promise of better communication, such as hopes for peace, enlightenment, and productivity. It makes sense then that communication has been studied extensively this past century, sometimes in studies invoking the word; oftentimes not. In any case, the voluminous research on communication and closely related subjects presents current scholars with the monumental task of ordering, valuing, and clarifying what we already know about …
Harp Competitions In The Paris Conservatory, Shelley Lynn Jones, David A. Day
Harp Competitions In The Paris Conservatory, Shelley Lynn Jones, David A. Day
Journal of Undergraduate Research
The Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris has been a center for the world’s best musicians and composers since it was established centuries ago. It is the school’s tradition to hold a competition for each instrument every year. Every year a piece is chosen for the competition and students of that instrument compete. Many of the pieces selected in the past for the harp are now widely played and are part of the harp’s standard repertoire. Gabriel Faure’s Impromptu or Felix Godefroid’s La danse des sylphes are both constantly being played and recycled for other competitions. …
Beginning Programming Concepts For Web Designers, Bryant Cutler, Ray Elder
Beginning Programming Concepts For Web Designers, Bryant Cutler, Ray Elder
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Graphic design is a rapidly changing profession. While good design is still based on good typesetting and compositional skills, the advent of the personal computer has had a huge impact on the way that designers work. In no medium is this more apparent than in web design, the design of electronic documents for display on the Internet or on corporate intranets. Unlike any other design medium, web design is sharply bounded by technical details; good web designs are aesthetically pleasing, functional, standards-based, and require as little transmission bandwidth as possible.
The Marvelous American Reality: Making A Case For Carpentier’S Magical Realism In Latin American Music, Erika Edwards, Dr. Arden Hopkin, George Handley
The Marvelous American Reality: Making A Case For Carpentier’S Magical Realism In Latin American Music, Erika Edwards, Dr. Arden Hopkin, George Handley
Journal of Undergraduate Research
In 1949 the Nobel Prize-winning Cuban novelist and musicologist, Alejo Carpentier, published his essay on lo real maravilloso Americano, an aggressively American discussion of the theory now known as magical realism. Carpentier refers to the German art critic Franz Roh (who initially coined the term in reference to post-expressionist painting in 1925), but diverges and defends magical realism as a uniquely Latin American phenomenon. While the world has latched onto Magical Realism as a critical literary theory, it is undeniably the Latin American authors and artists who have embraced, embodied and defined the practice of it. Carpentier asserts that the …
Algorithmic Composition Using A Computational Model Of Music, Morgan Quigley, Dr. Steve Ricks
Algorithmic Composition Using A Computational Model Of Music, Morgan Quigley, Dr. Steve Ricks
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Algorithmic composition involves the application of systematic mathematical methods to the compositional process. Sequences of pitches, rhythms, or other musical elements are manipulated as if they were abstract mathematical symbols, and the resultant music contains patterns that can either be simple enough to recognize audibly or so complex that they are revealed only through detailed score analysis.
Finding Aid For The Henriette Renié (1875-1956) And Françoise Des Varennes (1919-) Papers, Steven S. Nordstrom, David A. Day
Finding Aid For The Henriette Renié (1875-1956) And Françoise Des Varennes (1919-) Papers, Steven S. Nordstrom, David A. Day
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Henriette Renié was a world-famous harpist from France who worked to expand the virtuoso repertoire for harp and helped establish the status of the harp as a solo concert instrument. The Henriette Renié and Françoise des Varennes Papers contain personal items originally belonging to Renié, and arranged and used by her goddaughter, des Varennes, for her biography, as well as handwritten and typed documents created by des Varennes in preparing the biography. The items found within the archive range mostly from Renié’s lifetime (1875-1956), although there are many materials collected by des Varennes about Renié that pertaining to her biography …
Improvisation: A Comparison Between Aural And Theoretical Learning, Tyler Jensen, Ray Smith
Improvisation: A Comparison Between Aural And Theoretical Learning, Tyler Jensen, Ray Smith
Journal of Undergraduate Research
The study of jazz is a relatively new pedagogy in our educational system. Much of what has been established has been the result of applying classical and existing pedagogical practices to the subject of jazz. The majority of this teaching approach is theoretical in nature, using knowledge of chords, structures and designed systems to analyze and perform music. All too often the aural methods of learning and teaching are neglected. This is also evident in other studies of music were the learning of improvisation is often considered mythical.
The Standing Madonna And St. Catherine From The Kunsthistorisches: A Wedding Gift Symbolic Of The Ideal Bride, Jennifer Champoux, Dr. Martha Peacock
The Standing Madonna And St. Catherine From The Kunsthistorisches: A Wedding Gift Symbolic Of The Ideal Bride, Jennifer Champoux, Dr. Martha Peacock
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Two small panels by Rogier van der Weyden, The Virgin and Child Standing in a Niche and St. Catherine in a Landscape, both from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, create an interesting puzzle in terms of authorship, iconography, and purpose. Although largely considered to be matching panels of a diptych by Van der Weyden, the works are not conclusively his and, indeed, they exhibit aspects characteristic of his teachers and contemporaries. Moreover, the two panels are no longer attached to each other (if they ever were) which further complicates the issues of authorship and purpose. St. Catherine typically shows up …
Public Justification Of Moral Choices: Using Bok’S Test Of Publicity To Evaluate Moral Reasoning In Public Relations, Thomas H. Grover, Dr. Brad L. Rawlins
Public Justification Of Moral Choices: Using Bok’S Test Of Publicity To Evaluate Moral Reasoning In Public Relations, Thomas H. Grover, Dr. Brad L. Rawlins
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Public relations practitioners are sometimes confronted with conflicts between competing values or interests. Resolving such conflicts oftentimes requires public justification of the decision. Undergraduate Thomas Grover, working with professors Brad Rawlins and Kevin Stoker in a mentored research experience as part of an Office of Researh and Creative Activities (ORCA) grant, presented the results of research conducted to determine how pr practitioners make such ethical decisions at The 6th Annual International, Interdisciplinary Public Relations Research Conference in Miami, Florida, in March 2003. The following proceeding outlining the results of the research was written in a press release format for pr …
Bodies In Motion (Photography), Ty Lamont Mecham, Val Brinkerhoff, Caroline Prohosky
Bodies In Motion (Photography), Ty Lamont Mecham, Val Brinkerhoff, Caroline Prohosky
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Photography is prominent form of communication in our society, and I envisioned a body of work that would glorify beauty and form in an aesthetically pleasing way. Two of the best resources for these requirements are the landscape and dancers, both of which I absolutely love and am constantly inspired by. Due to the landscapes I chose to photograph as the dancers’ environment, the work needed to be done in color photography. I also wanted the images to feel alive, so each dancing shape had to be in motion, ranging from large obvious motion to small subtle motion.