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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"abstract art"”.
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Art lessons that develop of positive attitude toward abstract art : an interview study
… to appreciate the visual passion of prominent abstract artists' works. In order to do that, I wanted to learn what art educators know in regard to abstract art, and about how they change students' negative attitudes toward abstract art, and how do art teachers motivate students to inquire …
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Postulating the Personal in Abstract Art through Poetry: The Development and Implementation of an Abstract Ekphrasis
… written in response to an existing work of art, my thesis, “Postulating the Personal in Abstract Art Through Poetry”, engages intimately with referent works such that my analysis and composition of poetry articulate an ‘abstract ekphrasis’. Both visual art and poetry are considered as …
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A abstração e a reflexão - Mário Pedrosa, o crítico como revolucionário
… of his ideas in relation to his concept about art criticism, the role of a critic and his defense of the abstract art in Brazil. This dissertation, based above all in Pedrosa’s texts, is restricted to the fifties and shows the influence and importance of this critic in the course of the arts in …
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Modern art for middle America : American abstraction in mass magazines, 1946-1960
This thesis examines how mass magazines framed abstract art for a broad public during the years following the Second World War. While art historians have devoted much attention to Abstract Expressionism’s place within the New York art establishment and its international promotion, the presentation …
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Metaphysics and Materiality: Landscape Painting and the Art of Kay WalkingStick
… around three recurring elements: the body, abstraction, and landscape. In order to situate WalkingStick's work within a broader context of philosophical, social and psychological issues, her oeuvre is recontextualized in relation to the larger discourse of American art history, including …
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O lirismo na gravura abstrata de Fayga Ostrower
… assumed a conspicuous position compared to the abstract art developed in Brazil. Her prints represent the most personal approach within abstraction, usually known as "informal". In our country, Fayga was the pioneer of the abstract printmaking. The main characteristic of the work is the …
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Closed systems : Alexandra Luke, Hortense Gordon and the Canadian art history canon
The marginalization of women's art within the Canadian art history canon articulates the dichotomy which exists between the practice of making art in a Canadian context and the selective recording of that practice within written history. Canadian painters Alexandra Luke and Hortense Gordon made …
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Intention Perception and Meaning
… to increase perceptions of intentionality for abstract art. However, individuals rated art made by artists to be more intentional and more meaningful than art made by non-artists (toddlers, elephants, non-human primates). If perceiving intentionality begets meaning, perhaps meaning threats lose …
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Semantic Priming with Art
… study is to understand the effect of viewing art on cognitive processes. This thesis uses a well-established priming paradigm to examine how people respond to styles of art with varying degrees of unexpectedness (realism, surrealism, and abstraction). Sixty-one participants completed the …
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For Tomorrow They Will Not Recognize Us: The American Reception of Soviet Leftist Art
… approach to the reception of Soviet leftist art of the early 20th century in the United States. I explore the ways that Soviet movements like Suprematism and Constructivism were appropriated as a vehicle for political meaning by American institutions and the means by which those Soviet …
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The mirror and the square : a study of ideology within contemporary art systems with special reference to the American avant-garde in the period 1933-1953
This dissertation argues that abstract art is not ideologically neutral. In spite of many artists' anti-fascist stance early in their careers, the mantle of neutrality was assumed as a reaction to the protracted struggle between the two major ideologies confronting artists living in Europe and the …
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A Teaching Toy: Free Forms in an Abstract Landscape
… student, I enjoyed a passion for the studio arts and an interest in art history. I ardently pursued these areas in college, continuing their exploration in graduate school in the field of Industrial Design. For the thesis project, my objective is to foster in children an appreciation for art …
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Jock Macdonald : the search for the universal truth in nature
This paper is a study of the artistic philosophy of J. W. G. (Jock) Macdonald (1897-1960). It examines the implications of his initial break with representational art and his development of an abstract imagery between 1934 and 1941 in the context of the ideological tradition from which he emerged …
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From Cubism to Non-Objective Art: Sonia and Robert Delaunay's Exchange with Russian Artists
… development of Cubism, Orphism and Non-Objective art through the artistic exchange between Sonia and Robert Delaunay and Russian avant-garde artists. Previous scholars have studied the work of the Delaunays primarily within the context of isolated movements and geographical confines. This approach …
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Modernismo and Patronage in Brazil, 1917-1949: the National versus the International
This study analyses art in Brazil from earlier 20th century modernismo to the official arrival of abstractionism at 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 …
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Routes and Networks of Mexican Abstraction Across the Americas (1958-1970)
… investigates the emergence and consolidation of abstract practices in Mexico City, exercised by a collective of artists driven by collaboration, intermediality, and experimentation, as an alternative to Muralism. In reevaluating the 1960s generation of artists, historically assessed by their …
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Environmental cueing and therapist demand as facilitators of interview self-disclosure
… levels of symbolic environmental manipulation (artwork) and (2) two conditions of therapist demand characteristic (claiming or disclaiming of the artwork as reflective of personal taste) on the self disclosing behavior of 80 female college freshmen in an intake interview-analogue. The artwork …
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Incandescent molecules: An analytical investigation into materiality in contemporary abstract painting
This project began by considering abstract painting across the twentieth century, from Malevich to Nozkowski, and subsequently looked at contemporary New Zealand practice. This analysis secured my work within the genres of neo-casualism and new materiality. New materiality accepts that all matter, …
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Creative Matrix
My personal life experiences are reflected in my art. I use symbolic and expressive marks in developing my abstract imagery, which acts as a visual language. The combining of my past and current art work, fused together, has become what I call a creative matrix. I see my images as choreographed …
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