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Showing 1 to 20 of 569 for “"Fine art"”.
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Fine art, folk art,and web 2.0
… of staff at Writtle School of Design, the artist Michael Szpakowski and the curator and critic Pryle Behrman. In this interview I discuss work I have made over the last five years. I draw links between my early and later work, and discuss themes throughout my work, such as social …
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Generative adversarial networks for fine art generation
… have recently been applied to the task of fine art generation. Wasserstein GANs and GANHack techniques have not been applied in GANs that generate fine art, despite their showing improved GAN results in other applications. This thesis investigates whether Wasserstein GANs and GANHack …
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A Tale of Two Dogs Fine Art Exhibit
… of this paper is a formal examination of the fine art exhibit titled A Tale of Two Dogs by Jeffrey A. Harris as a partial fulfillment of requirements for a Master of Fine Arts degree from Stephen F. Austin State University.</p> <p>By examining the multiple established points of view within his …
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Floristry and fine art — a practical and conceptual investigation
… investigates the concepts of both floristry and art and how they are interrelated, drawing on the author’s 15 years’ experience in the floristry industry. The research is based on both theory and personal practice. The most common theoretical concepts of both art and floristry were reviewed. …
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The trading of antiques, fine art and collectibles : the Maltese perspective
In legal terms, the antiques, fine art and collectibles market is rather unique. Giving rise to various particular legal concepts, the trading of art, antiques and collectors' items in the legal context deserves to be analysed for a number of reasons. This dissertation intends to provide a clearer …
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The Printer's Grey : alchemy, ritual and performance in fine art printmaking
… printmaker. This project is located within the fine arts practice of printmaking, but positions itself as an investigation of the liminal, in-between processes of printmaking in terms of alchemy and ritual through the figure of the printmaker. The project is everything in-between the initial …
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The fine art of electronics : paper-based circuits for creative expression
… audiences to create personally expressive artworks with technology.
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The mind of the everyday in contemporary fine art and Zen Buddhist practice
… the beginning of the 20th century, contemporary art has been saturated with references to the everyday and there are a mass of available views addressing the subject by profound social thinkers such as Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau and Agnes Heller. Towards the end of the 20th century and at …
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Investigating disorientation through the adoption of role-play in contemporary fine art practice
… of identity and politics in a series of art works encompassing video, drawing and photography. This research discusses the highly spatialised ways of describing cultural identity, covering aspects of: film, mapping, spatial practices and theory, performativity and translation, as well as …
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Peregrinations With Maps And Landscapes: Narrating the Spaces of Practice in Fine Art
For some art historians the notion of geography has never had as much importance in art as in recent years. At the same time numerous geographers have been engaged in a diverse range of artistic practices from installation to new genre public art. Often engagements between geographic theory and …
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Interior Decoration as Fine Art: Rachel Feinstein and <i>The Sorbet Room</i>, 2001.
… John Currin and mother of three also works as a fine artist. Primarily a sculptor and installation artist, Feinstein combines fairytales with reality. Often her contributions to the art world are overlooked due to her active social life and vast network of friends. Feinstein’s connection to …
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The Trace of Everyday Life: The Interpretation of Déjà vu in Fine Art Practice
… project investigates the use of déjà vu as an artistic strategy of ‘affect’, in relation to the spatial and temporal displacement associated with déjà vu and the unheimlich (i.e. uncanny/ unhomely). My practice, and its theoretical contextualisation, address ideas that are manifest in the …
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Fragments of existence : on death within fine art practice and its interpretation in contemporary gothic expression
… a practitioner, who investigates his or her own art practice. The integral part of this relatively recent form of research focuses on the interplay between the researcher as practitioner-researcher and his or her artistic work in process. This interplay has been properly documented and used as …
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The Representation of Association Football in Fine Art in England From its Origins to the Present Day
… to explore the representation of football in art from its origins in Ancient Greece to the present day, although the main focus of the analysis will be upon representations of football in English art from the late Victorian period up to 2010. In general terms, with minor but notable …
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UNMASKING CONVENTIONS: A re-evaluation of the notion of the double page spread within fine art practice.
… a number of questions that have arisen from my fine art practice. The enquiry focuses on identifying which elements are bonded to the symbolic image of the opened book and how these can be unmasked to become a discursive space and material support to express visual ideas within a fine art …
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