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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"oil paint"”.
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Disconnect: The Persistence of Isolation in Contemporary Existence
This paper discusses a series of paintings exploring the effects of isolation in the human experience. The focus concerns both a specifically twenty-first century manner and a more universal framework. Drawing inspiration from her past experiences, the author also references a number of artists …
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Catalysis.
… intaglio, brayer marking, encaustic wax, paper, oil paint, pen, and sumi ink. Topics included are the artist's thinking into the nature of creativity and the potential for art to speak into culture. The artist discusses some of her own process in this discovery exploring landscape, symbol, and …
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Rogier van der Weyden: A Netherlandish Artist and the Ferrarese Court
… Ferrarese court and technical analysis of select paintings, it is evident that Cosmè Tura strove to emulate and incorporate aspects of Rogier van der Weyden’s northern manner, especially in his handling of oil paint, use of underdrawings, and emotive effects. By reconsidering this cross-cultural …
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Reflections on Our Time
<p>This thesis examines the paintings included in my MFA thesis exhibition. The body of work presented in my thesis show features abstracted paintings that explore both distortion of imagery as well as the biased views we have about our environment and our resources. Inspired by natural and …
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A wounded surface : dissolving the human form
This text offers an exploration into painting and metaphysical states of being and provides a framework for the reception of my body of work submitted for an MFA degree. In this project I am concerned with the translation of personal experiences to a canvas marked with oil paint. The experiences …
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Interfacing the screenic and painted surface: an artistic research project asking what can painting and drawing practice reveal of the contemporary practices and perceptions of touchscreen technology
… technology from the disciplinary context of painting and drawing. A period of studio practice was undertaken in which touchscreens were placed under consideration as a recurring subject matter, with artistic research constituting the main method of enquiry. Touchscreen gestures were a …
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The Effect of Density Ratio on Steep Injection Angle Purge Jet Cooling for a Converging Nozzle Guide Vane Endwall at Transonic Conditions
… and transient data reduction techniques. Oil paint flow visualization techniques were used to gather quantitative information regarding the alteration of endwall flow physics due two different blowing rates of high-density coolant. High resolution endwall adiabatic film cooling …
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Places, Please!
… stage of gender performance. Through immersive oil paintings, I seek to visually represent where these two experiences merge, depicting imagery and characters from my childhood staged in theatrical and uncanny environments. In this thesis I explore the canine motif as my primary subject, …
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The Enigma of the Everyday
… collage, watercolor, acrylic, egg tempera, oil paint, digital photographic prints, aluminum and iron casting, ceramics and found object assemblage. Working through these different processes refined my aesthetic sense, reinforcing my affinity for an organic, spontaneous and referential …
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The Enigma of the Everyday
… collage, watercolor, acrylic, egg tempera, oil paint, digital photographic prints, aluminum and iron casting, ceramics and found object assemblage. Working through these different processes refined my aesthetic sense, reinforcing my affinity for an organic, spontaneous and referential …
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Sensible Signs: Pictures and Not Painting After Conceptual Art
… research is concerned with why, how and what to paint after conceptual art and proceeds by making a distinction between postconceptual painting and a return to painting. These themes are tested in the first of two of the author’s solo exhibitions titled ‘Four Circle Paintings’. The show consisted …
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Crossing the borders of a merchant class: imaging and representing elite status in the portraits of the Hong merchants of Canton
… associated with China's elite, yet the medium of oil painting and the use of perspective, drawn primarily from European artistic traditions, was unusual in Canton and was not in popular use in China as a whole. This study examines portraits of hong merchants executed by a Scottish artist residing …
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Expanding Spaces and Porous Borders in the Artworking of Bracha L. Ettinger
… of the Matrix and Metramorphosis into the act of painting. Ettinger’s work offers a feminist re-negotiation of the terms of Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis within the realm of aesthetics and ethics, issues that are universal, yet tied to specific experiences between the I and non-I, the known …
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Step Misaligned and Film Cooled Nozzle Guide Vanes at Transonic Conditions: Heat Transfer
… and compared with qualitative data gathered via oil paint flow visualization which also depicts endwall flow physics. Tests were conducted in a transonic linear cascade blowdown facility. Data were gathered at an exit Mach number of 0.85 with a freestream turbulence intensity of 16% at a Re = 1.5 …
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Effloresce
<p><em>Effloresce</em> is a series of oil paintings and charcoal drawings containing the human figure and natural imagery and forms. This pairing represents the intersection of the inner realm of human emotion and spiritual experience with the external realm of nature and the world.</p> <p>Both …
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Magic, Mystery, Illusion and Magic
… vaguely describes what happened to me and my paintings during my time spent at VCU.</p>
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Entangled Relationships Illustrated Through Parasitic Plants
… art. Creative ideas and techniques for using the paint media are discussed in relation to works of art I have researched and have learned from. Artist’s works in discussion include Edvard Munch, Egon Schiele, Matthew Ritchie and Jim Dine. Also, as part of Chapter II, my personal artistic process …
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Ross Caudill MFA Sculpture 2006
… The work is also a bridge between the fields of painting and sculpture, in terms of drawing with form and both painted and local, material color. My palette has mostly consisted of bronze casting, steel fabrication, fiberglass and epoxy resin, paint, the found object, woodworking, and mold …