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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Abstract painting"”.
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Motion and Spatiality: Material Illusions in Abstract Painting
… research investigates the continuing role of abstraction within contemporary art through a painting practice that involves collage, works on paper and paintings on canvas. The project is focussed on testing ways in which devices historically associated with illusionistic painting could be …
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Motion and Spatiality: Material Illusions in Abstract Painting
… research investigates the continuing role of abstraction within contemporary art through a painting practice that involves collage, works on paper and paintings on canvas. The project is focussed on testing ways in which devices historically associated with illusionistic painting could be …
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Contemporary abstract painting and spiritual experience: an investigation through practice
… exploring current possibilities for contemporary abstract painting and spiritual experience. Types of experience associated with previous 'spiritual' abstract painting are explored in view of the need for new languages for abstraction and spirituality in both word and image. This is developed …
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Incandescent molecules: An analytical investigation into materiality in contemporary abstract painting
This project began by considering abstract painting across the twentieth century, from Malevich to Nozkowski, and subsequently looked at contemporary New Zealand practice. This analysis secured my work within the genres of neo-casualism and new materiality. New materiality accepts that all matter, …
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Frank Stella, Anne Truitt, Robert Ryman, and Abstraction in the Sixties
<p>This dissertation examines transformations in painting during the 1960s. Countering repeated pronouncements of its “death” and subsequent diagnoses of its persistence in melancholic form, my dissertation argues that painting was by no means moribund,nor was its ongoing practice a situation of …
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Kandinsky’s Dissonance and a Schoenbergian View of <em>Composition VI</em>
… between Wassily Kandinsky's move towards abstraction in painting and his encounters with the music and theory of Arnold Schoenberg. Prior studies have concentrated on the similarities in their theories, but I examine Kandinsky [sic] idiosyncratic understanding of Schoenbergian concepts and …
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Painting as process: a Jungian approach to image and imagination as experiential practice in contemporary culture
… the psychologically transformative properties of painting are explored as aesthetic process and aesthetic product in abstract painting. Consideration is given to precedents within modern culture and the arts in relation to mainstream and marginal practice, along with the concept of the Other as …
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Trace and history: an investigation of Kurdish banner-making through contemporary art practice.
Abstract Author: Rostam Abdulazeez Hakeem Title: Trace and history: an investigation of Kurdish banner-making through contemporary art practice. This practice-led research project considers the culture of banner-making in Iraqi Kurdistan. The research is trans-disciplinary in character, combining …
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Gestural minimalism : developing a pictorial model in light of Deleuzoguattarian and enactive theories
… a dynamic and non- representational model of abstract painting based on Deleuzoguattarian philosophy of becoming and Varela et al.’s enactive model of cognition. The aim was to integrate it to my own pictorial practice, which, before engaging in this research, was only based on geometric …
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Fire+Words: The Geography of Depression
… an integral part in the artists practice as an abstract painter. A portfolio of my art practice has been included to exemplify and to support the idea that fragmentation is both a result and a consequence of living in a world that is no longer solid but liquid, as per the thoughts of sociologist …
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Affective Analysis of Abstract Paintings Using Statistical Analysis and Art Theory
… techniques in order to understand what makes an abstract artwork emotional. We identify and quantify the emotional regions of abstract paintings. We also investigate the contributions of the main aspects present on abstract artworks (i.e., colour, shape and texture) to automatically predict …
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A La Música: The Musical Abstract Paintings Of Kazuya Sakai, 1964-1979
… (1927-2001) titled more than one hundred of his abstract paintings after works of jazz, rock, and contemporary classical music. Despite this, most historical scholarship on Sakai considered his work stylistically within the context of Mexican geometric abstraction, lacking specific attention to …
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Documentation art and Korean Bunche painting : an investigation of Deleuze’s Transcendental Realism through the painting process
… Realism through the process of Korean Bunche painting. Bunche painting, which I have been working on for twenty years, refers to a thousand-yearold traditional Korean painting technique which uses powder pigments mixed with water glue (Agyo) on Korean paper (Hanji) in multiple layers. By means …
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Futurist Aeropainting: Extended Women and the Kingdom of the Machine
… of aviation. Focusing on the perception of aeropainting, or a eropittura, within both Futurism and Fascism, I am concerned in this dissertation to examine the role of the feminine within the idea of machine aesthetics and especially the ways in which women of the movement attempted to interrupt …
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Privileged, unique and temporary: interpreting aesthetic experiences of the painter-painting relationship through an address to and from practice
… Fried on the role of aesthetic absorption in painting practice. It engages with these hypotheses through collaboration with six contemporary abstract painters in an address to and from painting practice. The collaboration was conducted in order to examine aesthetic absorption from the …
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Walk. Paint.
In this paper I will explain my research based painting and performance art practice. Walking is at the crux of my research it forms a strong link between my performance and painting practice. I begin by studying fellow walkers within the Western art canon such as the flaneur and the …
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After the Renaissance: Art and Harlem in the 1960s
… as a series of case studies—on exhibitions, abstract painting and sculpture, photography, and printmaking—it examines how and why the decade’s struggles for racial justice prompted African American and Puerto Rican artists to engage Harlem in their work. For artists like Romare Bearden, …
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The effect of classical music on painting quality, attitude and behaviour for students with severe intellectual disabilities
… helped students improve the quality of their abstract paintings, attitudes and behaviour in class.
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Reconstructing Paradigms of Expression
… and the conveyance of knowledge through painting. These components are discussed in comparison to the major movements of expressionism and signature artists of the 20th century such as Vassily Kandinsky, Robert Motherwell, and Jean-Michel Basquiat. The philosophers, R. G. Collingwood, …
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Illustrating Life
My paintings contain both abstract and figurative elements that share an underlying theme: spiritual symbolism that conveys positive principles to live by. The symbolism that underscores my content carries over to my choice of palette; for example, red or yellow implies the vitality of life while …