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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"ND Painting"”.
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Painting with Light: A practice-led exploration of contemporary painting and the illuminated frame
The rationale of Painting with Light is the development of a self-illuminating frame that explores the space between painting and wall-based art. The aims of Painting with Light are to: analyse the self-illuminated frame as a useful device for the paintings as wall-based sculpture, question its …
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Sublime and infernal reveries : George Romney and the creation of an eighteenth-century history painter
… portraitist by day but the creator of `sublime and infernal reveries' at night by candlelight. Today these passionate designs from literature are characterized as proto- Romantic but, paradoxically, they were created within the context of a disciplined renaissance-humanist tradition. Romney's …
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A practical and conceptual investigation into some aspects of East Asian and European traditions of flower painting, with two case studies
… a historical account of the broad similarities and differences between the Korean and the European art traditions, particularly in respect to still life type practice, and more specifically sub-genres of flower painting, with an explanation in detail some of the philosophical and technical …
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Painting History in Mid-Century America: A Case Study of Friedel Dzubas’s Mature Style
My thesis, “Painting History in Mid-Century America: A Case Study of Friedel Dzubas’s Mature Style (1970s)” examines why Friedel Dzubas—an American artist of German descent whose friends and supporters included the powerful critic Clement Greenberg and the artists in his circle, among them Morris …
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Christ’s Descent into Limbo at the Bristol City Art Gallery and Museum: a singular work of art
This dissertation will focus on a painting in the Bristol City Art Gallery and Museum entitled Christ’s Descent into Limbo, attributed to Giovanni Bellini (c.1430-1516) by the museum. The painting is directly related to an engraving by Andrea Mantegna (1430/1-1506) of the same title. I will focus …
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Simeon Solomon's work before 1873: interpretation and identity
… before 1873, an artist who was Jewish and homosexual, have been dominated by critics’ perceptions of him as a marginal figure. Solomon’s Jewish heritage and homosexuality doubly marginalised him in the Christian, heterosexual culture of Victorian England so it is understandable that …
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Saintly ecstasies: the appropriation and secularisation of saintly imagery in the paintings and poems of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
… of British Columbia, the British Library and the National Art Library in the V&A, this thesis aims to broaden current scholarly understanding regarding Rossetti's exposure to, interest in, and subsequent appropriation of aspects of monastic life and saintly legend in his religious and …
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Monet at the Savoy Hotel and the London fogs 1899-1901
… interest in the relationship between weather and climate and how they are portrayed artistically. The representations of skies, atmosphere, weather, climate and climate change through a variety of artistic media have been considered thus far (Eliasson 2003; Olson et al 2004, Kunz et al 2005; …
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Textual cues, visual fictions: representations of homosexualities in the works of David Hockney
… with representations of homosexual themes and subjects in the works of David Hockney (b. 1937). A male, homosexual British artist, Hockney came of age during a period in which homosexual acts between males remained criminalised in both Britain and the United States. Openly homosexual since …
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The Passional of Abbess Cunegund: protagonists, production and a question of identity
… the manuscript of the Passional of Abbess Cunegund, NKČR XIV. A. 17, 30 x 25 cm, parchment, Prague, 1312-1314, National Library of the Czech Republic, in its religious, social, historical and artistic context. The thesis examines the physical construction of the codex and the dating is …
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Modernismo and Patronage in Brazil, 1917-1949: the National versus the International
… the MAM-SP in 1949. It is divided in two parts, and considers the political and socio-cultural realities and the nationalist and internationalist currents that underpinned the two art historical periods. Part 1 covers the first phase of modernismo (1917-1929) and argues that, whilst acting towards …
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A British Symbolist in Pre-Raphaelite circles : Edward Robert Hughes RWS
… Hughes made a career as a portraitist and draughtsman and as an exhibiting watercolourist, specialising in highly-finished compositions of literary and allegorical subjects. The first chapter situates the artist in the context of the late Victorian and Edwardian art world, and …
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James Gillray's Design for a Naval Pillar: Naval Heroism and Patriotic Public Display in late Eighteenth-Century Britain
… contemporary naval wars against revolutionary and Napoleonic France (1793-1815). Diverse visual representations, publications, theatre performances and the press informed Gillray and his audiences’ interpretations of the Navy, loyalist patriotism and emerging notions of national identity. This …
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The artistic and literary career of Charles Jervas (c.1675-1739)
… position of Principal Painter to King George I and II, succeeding his former teacher Sir Godfrey Kneller. His life and career have hitherto evaded a comprehensive study, possibly a legacy of the ridicule to which his person and oeuvre have long been subjected. The purpose of this study is to …
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Matthew Boulton and Francis Eginton’s mechanical paintings: production and consumption 1777 to 1781
The mechanical paintings of Matthew Boulton and Francis Eginton have been the subject of few scholarly treatises since their invention in the 1770s. Such interest as there has been has focussed on the unknown process, and the lack of scientific material analysis has resulted in several confusing …
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Ford Madox Brown: works on paper and archive material at Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
… on the extensive collection of works on paper and related objects by Ford Madox Brown (1821-1893) held at Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery (BMAG). It is the first academic study to use Brown's works on paper as the basis for discussion. In doing so it seeks to throw light on neglected areas of …
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The Wittelsbach Court in Munich: history and authority in the visual arts (1460-1508)
The culture at the ducal court of Sigmund and Albrecht IV of Bavaria-Munich was characterised by a coexistence of traditional as well as novel concepts and interests, which were expressed in the dukes’ artistic, architectural and literary patronage. Apart from examining the orthodox means of …
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Seeking the Family Face An experiment in and investigation of portraiture
… context of its use in history, contemporary use and social practice: how and why to paint at a time when photography is ubiquitous. Some artists are happy to use photographs as studies and source material, while others prefer to work only from a live sitter or model. I prefer to work from life …
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Edward Goodall’s ‘Sketches in British Guiana’: art, anthropography and colonialism in 19th century Amazonia
This thesis examines sketched portraits of Amerindian peoples created by the English artist Edward Goodall during the 1841-1844 Boundary Survey of British Guiana, now Guyana, which was carried out by the German scientific explorer, Robert Schomburgk. The portraits formed part of a larger body of …
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