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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"contemporary painting"”.
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The gloaming : narrative in contemporary painting
… assumption that the task of representation for contemporary painting is different from that of newer media such as photography and film. I see the role of painting as being the representation of the past; an engagement with history. Many of the painters who have inspired my way of seeing are …
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"A Painter's Brush That Also Makes Poems": Contemporary Painting After Northern Song Calligraphy
… transform my own understanding of art and make contemporary Western paintings out of that immersion. Various elements of that aesthetic are studied. Among them are the relation of the Chinese writing system to the natural world; the belief that calligraphy displays the writer’s character; the …
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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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Reengaging with the Art-Historical Female-Nude Subject through Feminist Deconstruction in Contemporary Painting
How can painting be used to reengage with the art-historical female-nude subject through its feminist deconstruction – and what does this mean in relation to contemporary art? There is still a tendency among scholars to privilege formal analysis of an artwork at the expense of discussing (gendered) …
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Watery bodies, natures mortes, lost backgrounds and decapitated heads: contemporary painting practice in the Anthropocene
… concept of the Anthropocene as a catalyst for contemporary painting practice and motors a theoretical enquiry apportioned into written chapters and visual essays. The implication of this approach is that painting practice springboards theoretical research in turn stimulating art practice. Using …
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Shanshuihua: ‘Mountain-water-painting’ for an ecological age
… the tradition of shanshuihua, or ‘mountain-water painting’, within broader traditions of Chinese ink painting, or shuimohua, and, through links with ancient Chinese philosophies, considers its continuing relevance to contemporary painting, and modern ecological themes, both in China and beyond. …
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No curso da pintura: a produção de identidades de artista
… work focuses a situation in which people learn painting, in an institution for the teaching and production of contemporary art. Contemporary painting is seen here as a social practice, placed by the social actors as continuous or as incompatible with other social practices. The acquisition of …
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Durational Painting: gifting, grafting, hosting, collaborating
This thesis takes as its focus contemporary painting, and develops an understanding of painting as a time-based medium. My research project addresses the array of strategies artists employ to produce durational paintings, a term I have coined as a means of referring to paintings that destabilise …
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Fluidity: “art-oriented meta-ontology” in painting practice
This thesis investigates fluidity in painting as both a philosophical framework and a practicebased methodology. It asks how painting may be understood as temporally recursive, materially relational, and a continuously active process that emerges through embodied making, environmental conditions, …
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Echoes : painterly repetitions and revisions in an age of digitally mediated images
The mediation of landscape in painting is explored by looking at a specific case in the Romantic tradition (Caspar David Friedrich) in relation to contemporary painting, which highlights a shift from a view of a utopian unmediated landscape to our present reconfigurations of fragmented past, …
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Contemplation and Immersion: Exploring the Five Elements and Australian Landscape
… things and processes, can be integrated into a contemporary painting practice. I develop my studio practice as an effective and original integration of Buddhist philosophical insights with immersion in the Australian landscape and an active engagement with the contemporary culture of painting. …
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The Afterlife of Painting
This thesis situates my painting practice within the broad context of developments arising from the so-called ‘death of painting’ and its aftermath. My claim is that those developments involved a change in the ontology or the nature of painting, so that it is no longer medium-specific but …
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Contemplation and Immersion: Exploring the Five Elements and Australian Landscape
… things and processes, can be integrated into a contemporary painting practice. I develop my studio practice as an effective and original integration of Buddhist philosophical insights with immersion in the Australian landscape and an active engagement with the contemporary culture of painting. …
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Islamic Tradition and Innovation in a Contemporary Kuwaiti Woman’s Painting Practice
… the role of the woman and the female artist in contemporary Kuwait by exploring new contexts for, and approaches to, contemporary painting in that country and the Middle East. Kuwait has sought to find a coherent and progressive cultural identity since the two Gulf Wars (1990–91, 2003–11). This …
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The Painted Double: Figuration, Language, and the Limits of Representation
… of doubling and legibility within historic and contemporary examples of figurative painting. Despite painting's capacity to present images before our eyes, it has always been haunted by a certain kind of absence. The painted image, in its negotiation of these two states, is doubled from the …
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Painting Invasion and Colonisation: Provisional Evocations of the Past
This studio-based research explores how painting can act as a vehicle for my reflections on the invasion and colonisation of Tasmania. The project brings together three fields of inquiry: the history of invasion and colonisation in Tasmania, contemporary politics, and the history and contemporary …
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The Painted Double: Figuration, Language, and the Limits of Representation
… of doubling and legibility within historic and contemporary examples of figurative painting. Despite painting's capacity to present images before our eyes, it has always been haunted by a certain kind of absence. The painted image, in its negotiation of these two states, is doubled from the …
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Painting Invasion and Colonisation: Provisional Evocations of the Past
This studio-based research explores how painting can act as a vehicle for my reflections on the invasion and colonisation of Tasmania. The project brings together three fields of inquiry: the history of invasion and colonisation in Tasmania, contemporary politics, and the history and contemporary …
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Virtual Nature: A practice-led enquiry into the relationship between painting and vernacular photography through the process of the painted monotype
… research explores the relationship between painting and vernacular photography through the process of painted monotypes. This project has developed from an ongoing fascination with the visual qualities of photography and what happens when you translate photographs into other material forms, …
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