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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Mural Painting"”.
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Res clamant - the land cries out: a practical study of the communicative and visual potential of a large-scale mural painting situated within a defined historical and cultural context
The place District Six was located centrally in the 'mother city,' Cape Town. Once the most integrated of our cities, it became through the implementation of the Group Areas Act the site of the greatest number of population removals in the country. 'Spatial apartheid' changed its face and the lives …
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Aspects of twentieth century black South African art, up to 1980. Volume II
… South African art: figurative woodcarving and mural painting, 3) Early twentieth century urban black art in South Africa and 4) Urban black South African art 1960-1980. Sources of photographs of art works are given where the photographs were taken from literature or obtained from museums or …
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Aspects of twentieth century black South African art, up to 1980. Volume I
… found essentially in figurative wood carving and mural painting, discussed in Chapter 2. Chapter 3 looks at four black urban painters
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A Technical Study of the Mural Paintings of the Interior Dome of the Capilla de la Virgen del Rosario, Iglesia San José, San Juan, Puerto Rico
This is a technical study of the extant murals of the 17th Capilla de la Virgen del Rosario located within Iglesia San José, San Juan, Puerto Rico. The primary objectives of this investigation were to: document existing mural campaigns, establish a chronology of mural painting through analysis of …
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Heritage, letters, and public history : Dorothea Fairbridge and loyal unionist cultural initiatives in South Africa, circa 1890-1930'
… identity are performed. This is compared with mural painting in public buildings, and a case study is made of the 1908 Quebec Tercentenary pageant and the 1910 South African Union pageant. The study of Fairbridge and her milieu closes with a reconstruction of the cultural matrix with which the …
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Praise, Politics, and Language: South Indian Murals, 1500-1800
This study of mural painting in southern India aims to change the received narrative of painting in South Asia not only by bringing to light a body of work previously understudied and in many cases undocumented, but by showing how that corpus contributes vitally to the study of South Indian art and …
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The Influence of the Mexican Muralists in the United States. From the New Deal to the Abstract Expressionism
… 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 conflicts with …
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The Experimental Use of Clay in a Wall Panel
… and shadow when applied to the concept of “light-painting” by using clay in an experimental way in a wall panel. Inventing ways to use tools which are easily available to teachers of all levels, relates this study to the ever-present problems of art education.
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Street art and mural art as visual activism in Durban : 2014 – 2017
Submitted in fulfilment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Technology in Fine Art, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2019.
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Beyond the easel : the dissolution of abstract expressionist painting into the realm of architecture
… feature of American abstract expressionist painting is its enormous size and scale. Heroic ambition, the vast American landscape, and the sense of "something big" happening in American painting are often cited as determining factors in this phenomenon. This dissertation examines how Jackson …
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Max Bill in Italia . Lo spazio logico dell'architettura
… Some of the faces of this hypothetical mural painting are, among others, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, Ernesto Nathan Rogers, Kandinskij, Klee, Mondrian, Vatongerloo, Ignazio Silone, while the backcloth is given by artistic avant-gardes, Bauhaus, International Exhibitions, CIAM, war …
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Italian frescoes in German baroque palaces: visual culture and princely power in the Holy Roman Empire
… Empire by 1700, large-scale Italian ceiling paintings soared in popularity as nobles of all ranks competed with one another to produce ever more lavish decorative schemes that expressed their claim to princely power and political authority. This dissertation explores this phenomenon by …