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Mana & Ea, Dan Taulapapa Mcmullin

The Transdisciplinary STEAM+ Journal

This work, Mana and Ea, expresses Polynesian indigenous sovereignty struggles with colonialism and globalism in the Pacific Islands.

Review Of Isaak Levitan: Lyrical Landscape By Avril King, Wendy Salmond

Art Faculty Articles and Research

Wendy Salmond reviews Isaak Levitan: Lyrical Landscape by Avril King.

Urban Monuments, David V. Contreras

LSU Master's Theses

Surviving in poverty in an urban environment is hard work. Fear of not having basic needs creates desperation, and not being able to improve upon these conditions can test ones patience and faith in others. The simple routine of daily life can be monumental. Small achievements can be huge moments for some and irrelevant to others. One learns to appreciate and hate what one has. Urban Monuments comes from a struggle to understand what painting is to me and the relationship it has with this idea. Working hard to better ones self or ones situation is a noble cause but …

[Implied Depth]*, Hope Thier

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

While snooping through my great grandmother's belongings, I found late 19th and early 20th century photographs and stories of untold familial histories, from that of my own family and others. I have taken to adopting these families, and I am attracted to these almost forgotten narratives and developing these incomplete truths about past relatives into fictionalized characters and false histories. I strive to develop a chaotic but structured quality in my work. While doing so, I explore relationships. The relationships evolve between myself and the material, myself and the characters, and the characters and the material. By observing and learning …

All Things In All Ways, Amanda Nicole Crary

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

This thesis highlights our obliviousness to nonhuman nature and how this ignorance severs a great connection to the earth and our senses. My work explores this important connectedness. The natural world is filled with fleeting revelations that shatter habitual ways of seeing and experiencing; my paintings act as record of such moments. The exhibition was held at the Conkling Gallery in Nelson Hall from February 24th to March 5th, 2014. It consisted of twenty-two works including paintings, drawings, and prints. All works were produced during my time within the M.A. program, 2012-2014. Postcards and a brochure advertised the exhibition. The …

Infrastructure, Scott S. Foxx

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

The paintings in this series depict sensations and forms drawn from a collaged, painted surface, referencing examples of painting from the Early Renaissance and the pure Formalism of the mid 20^th century. Collage materials lend both conceptual and physical directions to the compositions, in that it is symbolic of the multi layered experience of modern people in a technological society. Imitating painting’s gestural, linear energy in an illusory manner, the paper and paint layers invert expected hierarchies of space. I am analyzing the condition of the painter, the ideas of painting as an activity and product, with myself at …

Art And Symbolism: The Technique Of Applying Hidden Meaning And Communicating Specific Ideas Through Art, Andrea C. Macbean

Senior Honors Theses

Symbolism is an artistic style frequently used in the arts. Through the course of art history, it was its own artistic movement as well. The incorporation of specific symbols, shapes, colors, or identifiable images communicates to the viewer an intended message or statement. Frequently, symbolism appears to be hidden or initially unperceived by the intended audience. In some works, symbolism is so abstract that it needs explanation or clarification to be understood completely by the viewer. This thesis will analyze a few techniques of symbolism that can be incorporated in a work of art to communicate truth, entice thought, point …

Cultural Convergences, David Armistead

All Theses

As far back as I can remember my family has had two primary outlets in regards to entertainment; going to museum exhibitions and attending or watching football games. My parents have been members of the High Museum in Atlanta for years while simultaneously having season tickets to Georgia Tech football. My current series of paintings, drawings, prints and videos examine the cultural significance of sports in American society; specifically American football. As a "big guy" who was raised in the south, it is often assumed that I played football at some point in my life. Admittedly, I feed this stereotype …

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.

Preserving Artistic Tradition, Trilea Minson, Richard Hull

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Several great painters in art history used a certain kind of technique on their paintings. They used thin glazes rather then opaque layers of oil paint. Layers upon layers of translucent glazes created a luminous quality in their painting that added a richness and depth still admired and appreciated today. Unfortunately, this process is also very time consuming, and as such has been abandoned by many artists and art instructors. By learning this traditional process, I felt that I could not only increase my abilities as a painter and enhance my portfolio work, but also preserve the magnificent tradition and …

History Painting And Patriotism: James Barry And Jacques Louis David, Claire Dubois

Journal of Franco-Irish Studies

No abstract provided.

Last Judgment: Understanding The Iconography In Hans Memling’S Painting, Richard V. Thomas

Journal of Undergraduate Research

I started this project with the hopes of uncovering the true reason behind some specific iconography in the Last Judgment Triptych by Hans Memling. Prior to proposing this project, I had done a bit of preliminary research, which did not touch on the interesting iconography used by Memling in this painting. I felt that the icons in question were unique and significant enough that more research was in order to understand why Memling put them in his painting. The icons in question include a specific handclasp used by St. Peter to welcome the souls of the Righteous to heaven, and …

Contemporary Encaustics, Kristin Glaus, Joseph Ostraff

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Encaustic painting has a very deep tradition in the visual arts. The technique was used as far back as 100 AD, its roots established in Greece where beeswax was used as caulking in the joints of barges. Eventually the Greeks mixed pigments with the beeswax, adding an aesthetic value to the barges. These painted warships led Greek artists to use beeswax in an innovative way—on flat easel paintings.

Eustache Le Sueur: Adoration Of The Shepherds, Caroline Larson, Dr. Martha Peacock

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The painting, Adoration of the Shepherds, in Brigham Young University’s Museum of Art collection came to the museum as an anonymous painting in 2004. Little was known regarding the provenance of this work except that it had most recently been in the collection of Gloria Teichert. Preliminary discussions during the acquisition process suggested that it was most likely a seventeenth-century French painting in the style of such classicists as Eustache Le Sueur. This prominent artist of the French baroque era was one of the founders of the French Academy. Even with this preliminary attribution, however, much work was still needed …

Celebrating Color, Endia Renee' Bumgarner

Theses and Dissertations

To celebrate is to rejoice, appreciate, and fully marvel. For nearly a decade I have manipulated paint and imposed upon canvas using various methods and techniques in order to invent art. However, of all that I have explored and learned, one discovery will be celebrated in my exhibits for decades to come, that is color. Color resonates with great authority. Noted scholar and artist Robert Henri said, "The value of an image rests in its constructive beauty. Its story, the fact that it is about a man, a boy, a landscape, an event which transpires, is merely incidental to its …

Catalog Of An Artist’S Work: A Compilation Of The Works Of Torlief S. Knaphus, Martha M. Beddoes, Dr. Martha Peacock

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Torlief S. Knaphus was born in Vats, Stavanger, Norway in 1882. Throughout his childhood and teenage years, Torlief showed artistic promise in his whittling and painting. He had a deep love for the beauty and divinity in nature and wished to capture this beauty in painting. Through his teenage years, Torlief became a sailor and studied art in Oslo.

Portrait Of A Tree: Exhibit A, Hannah Wertz, Sunny Taylor

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Exhibit A is an explanation in four parts, of my attempt at knowing more about the Populus Tremulus (Aspen Tree). Eighteen months ago my experiments started shallow by painting portraits of the tree as seen in “Level One”. After six months the results were not leading my beyond surface physicality so I decided to try science. I represented this period by a white board, “Level Two”, covered in with written information about the tree collected over the last year from books, lectures, articles, professionals, botany, and environmental literature classes.

Art In The Library: From The Collection Of The Thomas G. Carpenter Library, University Of North Florida, Thomas G. Carpenter Library

Art in the Library Catalog

The Thomas G. Carpenter Library’s Art in the Library project began in 2008. Since the project’s inception the collection has grown to more than 100 pieces through the generosity of artists and collectors. Many of the works are by artists from northeast Florida. This is a selection of the pieces that may be found on display throughout the library’s four floors.

Catalog contains work by the following artists: Nofa Dixon, Diane Farris, John Bunker, Mindy Hawkins, Tom Farrell, Anthony Whiting, Louise Freshman Brown, Susanne Schuenke, Susanna Richter-Helman, Tiffany Leach, Jonathan Lux, Marilyn Taylor, Steve Williams, Christie Holechek, Sydney McKenna, Jerry …

Joanne Aono Interview, Charlie Lacke

Asian American Art Oral History Project

Bio: Joanne Aono is a Japanese American Sansei artist, born in Chicago. She received a BFA from Drake University with post graduate classes through the SAIC.

Solo and two person exhibitions of her paintings and drawings include South Shore Arts, Images Gallery, Eyeporium Gallery, Dayton Street, and 303 Erie Artspace, with an upcoming solo show at the Lee Dulgar Gallery. Joanne has shown in numerous group exhibitions including Julius Caesar, Contemporary Art Workshop, Governor’s State University, Woman Made Gallery, Beverly Art Center, Northern Illinois University, and Art Chicago International. She has received City of Chicago Arts grants in addition to …

Painting Connections, Wesley Miller

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

Painting Connections consists of five sections. This includes four essays, one of which introduces my work, and three that explore, at greater length, different influences on my work. The final section is composed of plates with images of my drawings, paintings, and prints. The Introduction briefly outlines the three essays that follow, as well as gives a brief overview of how the project was conceived. The Initial Shock explores how South African contemporary artist William Kentridge has influenced my thinking about art and development of imagery. Daydreams: Learning from Gaston Bachelard and Neo Rauch delves deeper into the roles that …

Toile, Dilenia Garcia

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Toile is a painting series that explores constructions of taste and the semiotics of manufactured fabrics. Through the use of irony, paradox and deconstructions of rhythm, shape, color and form, the paintings are a response to the formal and historical content in the fabric. The idyllic landscape, notions of identity, sexism and liminality are some of the themes considered in the series. The paintings in this exhibition attempt to correct and mediate outdated models of representation through the exploration of painting as a process that is open and malleable.

Contested Grounds, Carly Drew

All Theses

My drawings reference the American landscape tradition and Regionalism to comment on contemporary rural experience and highlight our interactions with nature. I do this through utilizing personal and family history to develop imagery that documents the economic changes taking place. I discuss why the American landscape tradition is important for a cultural understanding of my work, how industrial language impacts our understanding of these spaces and finally how my work visually encapsulates the contrast between objective forms of mapping and the subjectivity of personal experience. These contexts help discuss some of the larger issues of land ownership and use by …

Day Folder, Raewyn Martyn

Theses and Dissertations

Provisional or unfinished images, forms and actions can sustain their status by continuing to change. This can resist programmed experience of their state, and shift their relationship as images within time. The sub-aesthetics of the unfinished and entropic can alter our understanding of where and how images are formed and located within time. My paintings each exist within their own emergent systems of time, structure and productive disorder. This thesis discusses these ideas in relation to DAY FOLDER and other work made during my MFA studies.

Fiction Fix 14, April Gray Wilder, Sarah Scoles, Amanda Avutu, Louise Henrich, Susan Fedynak, Ira Joel Haber, Clay Steakley, Joachim Frank, Ernest Williamson Iii, Marty Carlock, Arthur Davis, David Press

Fiction Fix

No abstract provided.

Bringing Back Color, Bringing Back Emotion: Exploring Phenomenological Empathy In The Reclamation Of The Female Nude In Painting, Sophia R. Forman

Scripps Senior Theses

At the nexus of the seemingly disparate art-theoretical topics of color and the female nude is a critical consideration of phenomenology in both one of its most basic senses—as the first-person experience of perceived phenomena—and as a larger philosophical position which, through its abstraction of perception to subject-object relationships, implicates the painted figure. Specifically, this paper conflates the phenomenology of color with the transcendental phenomenology of Edmund Husserl and Maurice Merleau-Ponty in investigating empathy. Structured as a dialectic, it establishes the most prominent views of both color and the female nude—the nude as a symbolic figure, color as perceptual experience—before …

Developed & Less Finished: Maintaining Life, Lauren Kaye Sukany

Theses and Dissertations

This painting series, memory-inspired using developed compositions and less finished paint application, depicts mysterious scenes of figures in interiors maintaining life. Themes of maintenance, celebration, conversation, and leisure are emphasized using formal elements of figures in interiors, perspective, and paint application. These compositions are memories based on a collection of moments in time. Though inspired from memories, the pieces are not intended to portray real life but a shared physical and mental space of the figures creating a magical and mysterious element within the composition. While revisiting American paintings of the 1930s and 1940s, the larger implications of my work …

Traces Of Earthly Things, Kristin Frost

CGU MFA Theses

My strongest memories are visual. I feel connected to the moments of my life that have left imprints in my mind, traces of events that are still thick with color, energy, and purpose. I make paintings, collages, and installations that are visual combinations of events, land forms, and places from the present and the past. Through the repeated reworking of images and ideas in each piece, I reform my own concepts of space and time. Each aspect of my multi-step process changes not only the physical features of a piece, but also the original recollection that generated it. Through this …

Fiction Fix 13, April Gray Wilder, Alex Pucher, Jennifer Audette, Jennifer Clark, Daun Daemon, Vic Sizemore, Neil Dvorak, Ira Sukrungruang, Jason John, Eric Barnes, Robert Edward Sullivan, Tagreid Hassabo, Elena Estevez

Fiction Fix

No abstract provided.

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 …

Everyday Arrangements, Rachel Janette Compart

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

These set of works are an arrangement of forms. I am interested in making a simplified version of my subject by limiting the amount of information that is present while still suggesting a space. My subject matter began as a pile of dirty clothes that were lying on my bathroom floor. I first noticed the contrast between the organic clumps of fabric against the vertical lines of the white panel wall. I then realized that this subject matter was much deeper and said a lot about my domestic life as a mother, a daughter, a sister, a girlfriend and a …