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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"oil painting"”.
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An Experimental Investigation of Spatial Representation in Oil Painting
… these concepts and means with a series of oil paintings; and (3) to present conclusions that would suggest modifications in the candidate's painting techniques.
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Social Comment as a Phase in the Development of a More Personal Expression in Oil Painting
… (1) to examine the presence or social comment in painting from a historical point or view, (2) to support its validity as a theme in art, (3) to use this theme in the creation or a number or oil paintings, and (4) to develop through this means a more personal expression in painting.</p>
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An Investigation of the Structural Qualities of Certain Technical Elements in a Series of Oil Paintings Related to the Figure
… qualities of certain technical elements of oil painting, (2) to apply these qualities and means to a series of oil paintings related to the figure, (3) to evaluate the quality of structure achieved by these means, and (4) to arrive at conclusions and suggestions for future modifications of …
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THE AWW
… various media and form, including watercolor and oil painting, digitally manipulated photography, both large and small scale drawing, and various combinations of each. The work has explored narrative and emotional aspects to more mystical and ecological interpretations. The current body of work …
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Artistic Patronage at the Court of Queen Charlotte
… embroidery, transparencies (illuminated paintings), wax modeling and miniature painting, fields which were traditionally open to or dominated by women. My dissertation demonstrates that Charlotte did not promote hierarchical distinctions prevalent in the larger art world, such as that …
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Rose Piper: New Discoveries
… York, who garnered attention with her success in oil painting. She utilized her talent to transcend medium in a multidisciplinary career. Although Piper is not a widely known artist, her ability and skill make her deserving of a place in the art historical narrative. I have organized her career …
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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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Turbulent Bodies: Disruptive Materiality in American Painting, 1880-1940
… study historicizes the physical processes of painting of the American artists Winslow Homer (1836-1910), Albert Pinkham Ryder (1847-1917), and John Marin (1870-1953). It situates their practices in the context of late-nineteenth and twentieth-century American culture by thinking of painting as …
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Recollection
… said time. Depicted in the traditional medium of oil painting an autobiographical account is laid out. Not in chronological order, nor in any sense depicting actual events, these paintings are an attempt to identify and recreate distinguishing factors in my life. Acquiring a personal mythology is …
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Recollection
… said time. Depicted in the traditional medium of oil painting an autobiographical account is laid out. Not in chronological order, nor in any sense depicting actual events, these paintings are an attempt to identify and recreate distinguishing factors in my life. Acquiring a personal mythology is …
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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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Un/Veiling
… wrote in The Power of Images that the purpose of painting portraits was to show the living reality of the sitter by representing subjects in a way they wanted to be seen or remembered. The body of work Un/Veiling challenges that idea by representing both the subject’s staged persona (their …
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Nancy Spero: printing, writing, collaging
… made feminist interventions into the medium of painting and into exclusionary patriarchal narratives as they are presented in museums. The result is an oeuvre visualizing what Gertrude Stein called a “continuous present,” revealing how misogyny recurs in different ways throughout time. Spero …
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Teacher/Artist/Teacher
… of the artist-teacher in the medium of oil painting. The philosophy of every art teacher should be based on art as experience, since valid creative work evolves from sensitive experience. An art teacher must be able to communicate with a student verbally; worlds are one relationship to …
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The Religious Paintings of Emil Nolde, 1909-1912
… career, one rich in a variety of media--oil painting, water color, and the various graphic arts. Of the religious paintings, the first twenty five, painted between 1909 and 1912, have a special place among his works. They include some of his largest and most elaborate paintings, among …
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A Syncretic Modernism: Articulations of Painting in Turkey (1910s-1940s)
… that came to articulate the parameters of painting in the late Ottoman Empire and the Turkish early republic. I follow the trajectories of a selection of artists who became leading figures in the Turkish art world over the course of their careers: These painters contributed to the artistic …
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The genesis of English landscape etching
… as an integrated object. In printmaking, unlike oil painting, representational accuracy cannot be measured by a standard of “perfection of illusion.” The printmaker must consciously employ symbols or conventions of drawing. Printmaking, like poetry, may be said to be based upon the distance or …
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The Art of Adjustment
… found in nature. These elements unify my oil paintings and computer generated artwork and form a substructure that serves to magnify the unique concord found in nature.
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