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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Jackson Pollock"”.
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FRACTALS IN PUPILLARY OSCILLATION PATTERNS: FROM GRAY IMAGES TO JACKSON POLLOCK PAINTINGS
Previous research has discovered fractal patterns in many natural structures and physiological processes such as mountains, trees, clouds, coast lines, heart rate variability, lung structure, and even the structure of the brain itself (Goldberger, Amaral, Hausdorff, Ivanov, Peng, & Stanley, 2002; …
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Corporeal Modernity: Shared Concepts in the Work of Jackson Pollock, Martha Graham, and Merce Cunningham
Although working in two different mediums, Jackson Pollock, Martha Graham, and Merce Cunningham created works during the 1940s and 1950s that share several analogous formal characteristics, as well as a body-centered process that reminded viewers of both the corporeality of the artists and of …
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The validity of percent body fat estimates by Jackson & Pollock skinfold equation, near infrared, bioelectrical impedance and body mass index
… the validity of percent fat estimates by the Jackson & Pollock sum of four skinfold equation (JPSF), bioeletrical impedance (BIA), near infrared (NIR) and body mass index (BMI) when compared to the criterion method of underwater weighing (UWW). Skinfolds were measured at four sites, the …
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Art Criticism, Scholarly Interpretation, and Curatorial Intent: A Reassessment of the 1998 Jackson Pollock Retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art
… held a retrospective exhibition of artworks by Jackson Pollock. Curators Kirk Varnedoe and Pepe Karmel worked in an art historical context that had been significantly shaped by the early critical writings by Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg. The curators’ stated intention for the …
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In Autumn Rhythm
… and artistic outlook of American painter Jackson Pollock (1912 - 1956). Pollock's work Autumn Rhythm manifests itself in this piece as a web of dense, improvisatory counterpoint that emphasizes aggregate texture over clear linear designs. The form is delineated by a metric palindrome …
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The Human Figure as an Anchor to Realism in Abstract Expressionism
… of the figurative elements in the work of Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), Willem de Kooning (1904 - 1997), and Arshile Gorky (1904 - 1948), this thesis examines how they abstracted the human figure. It also draws on art history and contemporary theory to show how Abstract Expressionism art …
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Between consonance and dissonance
… Alvin Lucier, La Monte Young, and painters Jackson Pollock and Gerhard Richter. The first section provides background and places my work within the compositional/artistic canon while the second section discusses the work in more technical detail. At the end of the document there is a more …
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Artistic Action and Contemplation: Recapturing The Elements of Mystery That Make Every Round of Golf A Voyage of Discovery
… and John Dewey, the artistic approach of Jackson Pollock and Yves Klein, and my own perceptions of the process of creating art. The objective is to apply aesthetic concepts and principles derived from these sources to the practice of golf course architecture and expand the way we view and …
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Abstrakter Expressionismus: "Nature into Action"
… Bedingungen akzeptiert werden, wie bei Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell und Franz Kline. So unterschiedlich die künstlerischen Ergebnisse sein mögen, gemeinsam ist den Abstrakten Expressionisten eine Kunst, die die Gesetze des Lebendigen widerspiegelt, …
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Walk. Paint.
… Peart, Peter Poulet, Peter Sharp, Tony Tuckson, Jackson Pollock and James Drinkwater are discussed in relation to Al Poulet’s practice. Extending beyond painting and walking Poulet has created ‘painting objects’. These are paintings created from debris found whilst walking and these stand …
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Beyond the easel : the dissolution of abstract expressionist painting into the realm of architecture
… this phenomenon. This dissertation examines how Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman, and Mark Rothko not only painted large-scale canvases but, following trends in modern architecture, shifted their painting towards the construction of architectural environments, thus promoting the transformation of …
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An Exploration of Modern American Cultural History: An Undergraduate American Studies Course Proposal
… and the first gestural drip paintings of Jackson Pollock (circa 1947), Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible (1953), an the Science Fiction film <em>Invasion of the Body Snatchers</em> (1956). The third and final theme is Identity and Representation, which examines the <em>Wonder Woman</em> …
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Raman and Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for Forensic Analysis: Case Studies on the Identification of Illicit Substances and Artist Pigments
… album; and identification of the paints used by Jackson Pollock in <em>Number 1A, 1948</em>.</p>
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Remote Control: Art, Technology, and the Politics of Distance (1966-1972)
… of the work of modernist painters, particularly Jackson Pollock. Where a generation of critics had canonized “presentness” and medium specificity, a younger cohort read the work differently, finding in it permission to embrace remoteness, intermedia experimentation, and political messaging. …
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INTIMACY AND AUTONOMY: TWENTIETH CENTURY AMERICAN WOMEN AND THE QUEST FOR SELF-REALIZATION
… studies the relationship between Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock. Lee Krasner’s work as an artist is often considered superior to her very famous husband, yet she has not garnered near the renown that he has. The way that Lee managed her work as an artist in a sexist art milieu as well as the way …
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Validity and reliability of field test to assess physical fitness related to health in adults. The adult-fit project
… equations, such as Durnin/Womersley equation, Jackson/Pollock equation, Jackson, Pollock and Ward equation, and estimation equations implying skinfolds, alone or combined with circumferences, are most valid to estimate total body fat mass or body fat percentage in adult population (study III). …
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Philip Guston’s Absurd and the Sisyphean Affirmation in the Battle for Existentialism
… of exegesis to contemporary work by Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, and Willem de Kooning. Amongst this canon of America’s great twentieth century Abstract-Expressionists Philip Guston’s work is often noted, but rarely aligned fully with Existentialist and particularly Absurdist values. I propose …
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Minimizing Chaos
The thesis works presented in this paper are mixed media paintings that explore the tension between artistic control and abandon in what is essentially an intuitive driven process of image making. With these thesis works I have sought to use additive and subtractive processes to create compositions …