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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Drawing and Painting"”.
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A CREATIVE AND PRACTICE BASED INVESTIGATION INTO THE POSSIBILITIES FOR CONTEMPORARY DRAWING AND PAINTING, WHICH IS INFORMED BY PERCEPTUAL EXPERIENCES OF THE NATURAL WORLD
The body of work exhibited and the accompanying text are the result of a practice-based enquiry into the possibilities for drawing and painting which is informed by perceptual experiences of the natural world. An action-research method was adopted as the appropriate method of research because it is …
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Parsing the Non-finito: Systems, Thresholds and Imaginative Space in Representation
… built spaces that the artist moves around and through on a daily basis and the more abstract systems we invent to represent these structures sits the illusion of space and structure found in his drawings and paintings. Constant turnover within the built environment offers not only content, …
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Drawing the electric
This thesis explores the intersection of craft and electronics by way of paper and conductive ink, a domain that I'm terming papercraft electronics-a synthesis of electronics, drawing, and painting. I investigate the nature of making a physical electronic artifact, and the ways in which that making …
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The immediacy of the artist's mark in shape computation : from visualization to representation
Approaches to shape computation and algorithmic art-making within the fields of shape grammars and computer graphics still do not consider the immediacy of the artist's mark in drawing and painting. This research examines the canvas, or 2D picture plane, as the expressive and dynamic problem space …
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Exploring Contexts of Ubiquitous Structures
The following is the written source of my ideas and the execution of their place in my work used for my MFA thesis exhibition. In this body of work, I have approached the same subject matter -- social structures -- through various techniques and media. I have chosen this subject matter after …
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Rackwick - A study into its role in the development of contemporary art and culture in Orkney
For a period in the 1960s and 1970s Rackwick,on the island of Hoy, became the focal point for three of Orkney’s most significant artists. The poet George Mackay Brown first visited the valley in 1946 and wrote numerous works inspired by Rackwick including the poem cycle, Fishermen with Ploughs, …
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A place for computing visual meaning : the broadened drawing-scape
… keep doing things. Meaning is both significance and the endless unfolding of significance. Visual Meaning is fundamental for visual arts and design processes. One draws, paints, sculpts, throws sponges on the wall, dips one's own body into paint and crawls on the ground or codes to create lines, …
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iPad: A Virtual Studio in my Handbag
… the potential to provide the appropriate tools and resources required to create a body of new and original artworks. I suggest that the iPad enables the artist to re-define the concept of an artist’s studio and facilitates a move away from the traditional studio towards a new virtual studio. …
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Art, Landscape and Material: Subject into Media
… illustrates the development of the European landscape tradition as an unbroken interactive and material movement, through discussion of artists from Annibale Carracci (1560-1609) to Richard Long (1945 –). The contribution of each artist within their respective epoch will be used to propose …
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The effectiveness of a creativity course on developing Chinese design students' creative thinking
… a skill necessary for design students’ personal and professional development and success. Therefore, in recent years, the core educational aim of design education in China shifted emphasis from training students in skills such as drawing and painting, toward encouraging them to be creative and …
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The Vigor of Creative Materialism: Making the Hidden Stories of Underrepresented Engineering Students Visible
… BIPOC, LGBTQA+, low-income, first-generation, and disabled students in engineering education remains below national population levels. The culture of engineering is a barrier to increasing participation in engineering for students from these communities. The purpose of this dissertation study …
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The effects of structured criticism upon the perceptual differentiation and studio compositional skills displayed by college students in an elementary art education course
… model upon the perceptual differentiation and compositional drawing skills of college students. The an elementary art education course.All subjects received instruction in the studio activities of drawing and painting during the ten week treatment period. The three experimental groups …
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Painting Invasion and Colonisation: Provisional Evocations of the Past
This studio-based research explores how painting can act as a vehicle for my reflections on the invasion and colonisation of Tasmania. The project brings together three fields of inquiry: the history of invasion and colonisation in Tasmania, contemporary politics, and the history and contemporary …
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Painting Invasion and Colonisation: Provisional Evocations of the Past
This studio-based research explores how painting can act as a vehicle for my reflections on the invasion and colonisation of Tasmania. The project brings together three fields of inquiry: the history of invasion and colonisation in Tasmania, contemporary politics, and the history and contemporary …
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An exploration of the influence of the acculturation process on an artist's practice and the implications for education
… between expression in the visual arts and the process of acculturation. The focus of the study is my personal negotiation of this process. The descriptive study is about engagement with the organic world and its past and present dialogues within the ongoing process of acculturation. I …
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Re: Drawing. Reconfiguring a feminist response to life drawing practice.
… This practice-based thesis aims to explore and demonstrate the conflict that exists between traditional, male-oriented attitudes and feminist perceptions of the female nude within the context of life drawing practices. The research interrogates the problematisation of life-drawing practice …
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Shadow into Parent Light: Beyond Pembrokeshire, Beyond Landscape
The critical analysis examines and positions new works I produced during my Residency at Oriel y Pare - Landscape Gallery St Davids (a partnership between National Museum Wales and the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park) in 2008-9. The evaluation considers the development of subject matters together …
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An experimental study of three aids in the teaching of drawing
… study investigated the effectiveness of three drawing aids, the photograph, the glass plane, and the mirror, for use by students working with three-dimensional space representation.Four groups of eight students each were formed from two classes of AED-100 (Drawing and Painting). They were …
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Aesthetics of Diagrammatic Contemplation: Abhinavagupta's and Martin Heidegger's Views on Being as Such and How It Can Be Disclosed Through Aesthetic Contemplation
… dimensions: the mode of practical engagement and Being as such, also referred to by other terms including ‘the clearing,’ ‘the nothing,’ and ‘appropriation.’ He identifies Van Gogh's still-life painting of shoes as one of the exceptional works of art that can facilitate a resistance to and …
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