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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Abstract expressionist"”.
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Hedda Sterne and the abstract expressionist context
… of identity that generally prevailed among the abstract expressionists. She also believed in a reciprocal relationship between language and ideas: different communal languages shaped the ideas of their speakers, just as different ideas often required different languages for precise expression. …
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Beyond the easel : the dissolution of abstract expressionist painting into the realm of architecture
A defining feature of American abstract expressionist painting is its enormous size and scale. Heroic ambition, the vast American landscape, and the sense of "something big" happening in American painting are often cited as determining factors in this phenomenon. This dissertation examines how …
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Canvas politics: Norman Lewis and the art of Abstract Resistance
… erroneously, as the first African American Abstract Expressionist. In this dissertation, I argue that he is better suited as a Social Abstractionist and an Abstract Allusionist based on the life he lived, the work he produced, and his involvement in both black art and the Abstract …
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The Bonwit Teller Window: homoeroticism and gender play in Andy Warhol's early pop exhibition
… a painterly style reminiscent of the prevailing Abstract Expressionist tradition. In spite of their artificial construction, these visible brushstrokes, blotches, and drips construct a pretense of spontaneity and contingency. In the course of several months, such gestural marks would be removed …
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The Human Figure as an Anchor to Realism in Abstract Expressionism
<p>By analyzing the works and histories of three Abstract Expressionist painters, and producing a series of his own figural abstractions, the author argues that Abstract Expressionism is anchored, in part, to the study and training of the human figure.</p> <p>Through a close analysis of the …
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The work of art in the age of its technoscientific re-enhancement : recasting light, Colloids, and microbes for art and heritage conservation in U.S. and Italian laboratories
… the restoration of artifacts ranging from faded abstract expressionist paintings to the crumbling clay terraces of an archaeological site. Reporting on archival research, interviews, and participant-observation, I juxtapose three case studies in the U.S. and Italy-two in which physics (Cambridge, …
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Embattled
… art history are also explored, especially Abstract Expressionist painting and Surrealist "automatic" drawing.
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Poetry, Place, and Painting in the Works of Frank O'Hara
… art form: painting rather than literature and Abstract Expressionist painting in particular. This new freedom allowed O'Hara to experiment in words with painterly techniques and eventually satisfy one of his great desires---to take part in a true collaboration with a painter, a desire achieved …
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Architecture as artform : drawing, painting, collage, and architecture, 1945-1965
… Drawing became the common conduit between the abstract work of art and its transformation into modern architecture. Architecture was seen as a problem that could be studied diagrammatically, and consequently also thought of as a fundamentally conceptual, immaterial artifact. At the same time …
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The Influence of the Mexican Muralists in the United States. From the New Deal to the Abstract Expressionism
… of the Mexican artists' work on the Abstract Expressionist movement of the 1940s. Finally I will also examine the iconography of certain murals by Mexican and American artists to appreciate the reaction of their audience, their acceptance among a circle of artists, and the historical …
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Classification of Painting Styles Among American and Nigerian Children: A Developmental Study
… paintings into schools of art, namely, American abstract expressionist and color field painting styles and Nigerian contemporist and transitionist styles? (b) Has culture any mediating influence on this aesthetic classificatory behavior? Subjects consisted of 311 American and 291 Nigerian, male …
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Jack Tworkov's work from 1955 to 1979 : the synthesis of choice and chance
… in the 1920s and made his reputation later as an Abstract Expressionist working in a gestural style. At the age of sixty-five Tworkov put that reputation on the line by undergoing a radical transformation in style and, within a few years, emerged as one of the innovative geometric painters of the …
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A Static Sublime: Morton Feldman and the Visual, 1950--1970
… the role of visual sources in general, and abstract expressionist painting in particular, on Feldman's music and artistic thought during the first two decades of his career. Its first chapter serves as an overview of Feldman's professional life and a review of primary sources and secondary …
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Poems to the Sea and Painterly Poetics: Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Cole Swensen
… writing are compared to the approach of several Abstract Expressionist painters who contributed to the culture of experimentation and spontaneity that emerged under Olson’s leadership at Black Mountain College in the early 1950s. Following a discussion of Olson as a uniquely influential figure, …
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.Pause.
<p><em>.Pause.</em> is a series of fifteen abstract oil paintings that represent a visual inspection of changing mental/emotional states of being as we navigate life. My subject matter consists of natural and organic forms that twist, contort, overlap, and flow. These aspects—combined with dramatic …
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Reconstructing Paradigms of Expression
The objective of my thesis research is to collect, assimilate, and reconstruct the paradigms of expression in order to formulate my own unique form of art. This thesis provides a detailed exploration of artwork done for my MFA Exhibition with emphasis on artistic intent, use of metaphor, and the …