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Showing 1 to 20 of 219 for “"painter"”.
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Evolution: The Progress of a Painter
This analysis explores the progression of my work over the past three years of study. My initial pursuits involved ideas that revolved around contemporary feminism, however, with time I expanded upon those ideas by exploring other subjects. I realized the connection in all of my work lies in the …
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The house and studios of a painter
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1894.
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The studio of the painter: process and play
… works as a kind of grand collage of the painter’s studio and is an inventory of such pieces. This investigation is a thorough exploration of a way of working that is less defined by a particular discipline and open to more expansive possibilities in a playful practice that is governed by …
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The Painter and His Poets: Paul Gauguin and Interartistic Exchange
<p>Many scholars have read the work of Symbolist painter Paul Gauguin through the tales of his travels to Tahiti (1891–93) in <em>Noa Noa</em>, despite the fact that they are an artful fiction, written upon his return to France in collaboration with the writer Charles Morice. Instead of …
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Creating a Female History Painter: Vigée-Lebrun, Labille-Guiard, Mongez, and the French Academy
… Labille-Guiard, and Mongez as history painters, and the first discussion connecting the three women. In three chapters, I consider the careers and oeuvre of the artists and their efforts to elevate themselves to the status of and define themselves as history painters, considered the …
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Sublime and infernal reveries : George Romney and the creation of an eighteenth-century history painter
The image of George Romney presented in his early biographies is of a successful society 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 …
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A dreamer and a painter : visualizing the unconscious in the work of Arthur B. Davies, 1890-1920
The paintings of U. S. artist Arthur B. Davies (1863-1928) spoke to his viewers in terms of the emergent discipline of psychology, creating visualizations of dreaming. This dissertation examines his work and its reception between 1890 and 1920, exploring the diversity characterizing American …
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Privileged, unique and temporary: interpreting aesthetic experiences of the painter-painting relationship through an address to and from practice
… collaboration with six contemporary abstract painters in an address to and from painting practice. The collaboration was conducted in order to examine aesthetic absorption from the perspective of studio practice in order to develop greater understanding of its relevance to contemporary …
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Revisão taxonômica das espécies neotropicais de Heterostylum Macquart, 1848 (Diptera, Bombyliidae, Bombyliinae)
… species (H. bicolor (Loew), 1861, H. duocolor Painter & Painter, 1974, H. ferrugineum (Fabricius), 1805, H. haemorrhoicum (Loew), 1863, H. hirsutum (Thunberg), 1827, H. pallipes Bigot, 1892 and H. rufum (Olivier), 1789), two new ones were added, H. evenhuisi Cunha & Lamas, 2005 and H. …
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Portinari, poeta de imensidões
In the work of the painter Cândido Portinari, poetry, if one takes the term in the wide sense of a phenomenon which may be applied to different art-forms, is evident as a mark that unites his great range of technique and stylistic tendencies. With the methodologi- cal support of Gaston Bachelard's …
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A arte de Antônio Teles, escravo e mestre pintor setecentista, no Mosteiro de São Bento do Rio de Janeiro
… the work of eighteenth-century slave master painter, starting with an overview of the Benedictine Order, limiting, gradually, the matter until the artist's work, but without forgetting its context, which is spirituality Benedictine lived in the Benedictine Congregation of Brazil. Despite the …
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The disciples of light: a way of seeing and the educational transfer of ideas linking spirituality and art among southern painters in the Hensche-Hawthorne tradition
… of in-depth oral history interviews with seven painters who studied with Henry Hensche at The Cape School of Art in Provincetown, MA, a school of American plein air painting that is linked with Impressionism. Charles W. Hawthorne, a painter who was a protégé of American Impressionist William …
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Abstraction, experience, reduction : time and periodicity in the work of Myron Stout and postwar American art history
… is the first full-career study of the American painter Myron Stout (1908- 1987). Stout is best known for a series of small black and white abstract paintings he made between 1955 and 1980. He is most often associated with American hard-edge painting of the early 1960s, the movement which set the …
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Abstraction, Experience, Reduction: Time and Periodicity in the Work of Myron Stout and Postwar American Art History
… is the first full-career study of the American painter Myron Stout (1908-1987). Stout is best known for a series of small black and white abstract paintings he made between 1955 and 1980. He is most often associated with American hard-edge painting of the early 1960s, the movement which set the …
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Ben Moore's "Dear Theo," For Tenor Voice and Piano: A Performer's Guide
… composer Ben Moore (b. 1960) is a well-regarded painter, pianist, and composer whose compositions have been sung by leading singers of the Metropolitan Opera. This document serves as a performer’s guide to Moore’s song cycle Dear Theo. The song cycle utilizes Moore’s own text adaptations of …
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