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Showing 1 to 20 of 66 for “"Expressionism"”.
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Computational expressionism : a study of drawing with computation
This thesis presents computational expressionism, an exploration of drawing using a computer that redefines the concepts of line and composition for the digital medium. It examines the artistic process involved in computational drawing, addressing the issues of skill, algorithmic style, authorship, …
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The Human Figure as an Anchor to Realism in Abstract Expressionism
… 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 figurative elements in the work of Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), Willem de Kooning (1904 - 1997), and Arshile Gorky (1904 - …
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Appropriation and hybridity of Taiwanese literati painting and American abstract expressionism (1949-2007)
… Chinese Ink-wash painting and American Abstract Expressionism, and represents a different and I hope more progressive artistic style in comparison to the restricted conventions of Literati painting. My thesis seeks to evaluate the mutual appropriation of the stylistic and ideological assumptions …
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Erich Mendelsohn--constructing an image of modernity between Expressionism and the 1920's avant-garde
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1997.
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The Influence of the Mexican Muralists in the United States. From the New Deal to the Abstract Expressionism
This thesis proposes to investigate the influence of the Mexican muralists in the United States, from the Depression to the Cold War. This thesis begins with the origins of the Mexican mural movement, which will provide the background to understand the artists' ideologies and their relationship and …
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Utterances Lacking Finite Verbs: An Analysis of Their Use in Certain German Dramas of 'Sturm Und Drang' and Expressionism
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No Way Out: Violence in Selected American Expressionist Plays
… The acts of violence are a recurring motif of expressionism, and their importance cannot be ignored. This thesis seeks to analyze the text and the settings of the plays, and how they relate to expressionism. The violence in each play is explored, and is traced back to the origins of …
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Reconstructing Paradigms of Expression
… 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, Suzanne Langer, and Nelson Goodman are cited to support ideas discussed in this …
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Nuotaika /
… one, where the relation of this work to abstract expressionism is presented, the main artists of this trend and their works are discussed, also the whole process of my work is described. Painting is the part of my life which helps me to express my thoughts, feelings, energy, so this work is …
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The Space Between
… inspiration references the world of Abstract Expressionism and German Expressionism.
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Hedda Sterne and the abstract expressionist context
… interpretation, and marketing of the abstract expressionism in the late 1940s and 1950s. This project also tells an institutional and cultural history of the mid-century art world that treats the artist, her work, and the institutions that promoted (or failed to promote) it as inextricably …
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An aquatic and racquet center for the Federal City
… the precious intricacies of picturesqueness or expressionism. Instead, I speak of a complex and contradictory architecture based on the richness and ambiguity of modern experience, including that experience which is inherent in art. Robert Venturi²
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Becoming film noir : film noir adaptions of hard-boiled fiction, 1944-46
… by the artistic movement known as ‘German Expressionism’ has been questioned by the revisionist debate. The thesis examines and discusses key German films of the Weimar period, when the artistic movement ‘Expressionism’ flourished, arguing that the Weimar influence is discernible in the …
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Abstraction, experience, reduction : time and periodicity in the work of Myron Stout and postwar American art history
… that he developed it as an extension of Abstract Expressionism. Stout intended the reduced palette, simplified shapes, and absence of gestural marks in his paintings to be effective containers for an expression of lived experience. Stout confounds typical art historical narratives in other ways. …
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Beyond Boundaries: The Aesthetics of the Scream in the Music of the Second Viennese School
… categorised as part of a broader movement of expressionism, this project embraces a more figurative understanding of the scream as a manifestation of the modernist desire to transcend reason, order, and the gloss of civilization through music. That is, the project asks how testing the limits …
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Abstraction, Experience, Reduction: Time and Periodicity in the Work of Myron Stout and Postwar American Art History
… that he developed it as an extension of Abstract Expressionism. Stout intended the reduced palette, simplified shapes, and absence of gestural marks in his paintings to be effective containers for an expression of lived experience. Stout confounds typical art historical narratives in other ways. …
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938): Early Female Nudes in Landscapes
… the female nude within the two contexts of Expressionism and the German nudist movement. In particular, it looks to Kirchner’s early paintings, executed between 1909 and 1914, of female nudes in landscape settings to determine how Kirchner operated within and departed from the conventions of …
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Graduate Recital, Clarinet
… of styles and genres, including neoclassicism, expressionism, and polytonality, that can be derived from Eastern-European folk-songs. In this regard, the program itself highlights the relevance of folk-music as a viable source of inspiration for artistic expression.
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF MY ART: SOURCE MATERIALS FOR MY PAINTINGS
… art influences with an emphasis on Cubism and Expressionism. These influences are related to the artist's work mostly by reference to six paintings illustrated in this paper. The artist considers this paper important for suggesting insights into the origins of her ideas and material for her …
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