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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"painting practices"”.
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In Savonarola's Shadow: Art, Agency, and Reform in the Dominican Nunneries of Central Italy
… workshop and was sustained through the nuns’ painting practices. It also explores the multiple identities of Dominican artistic nuns in each house to better understand the nature of artistic production within convent walls and how the didactic functions of devotional paintings were adapted to …
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Roman Paintings from Panayia Field, Corinth, Greece: A Contextual Study
… dissertation focuses on the unpublished wall paintings from Panayia Field, Corinth, Greece and examines the paintings within their archaeological, architectural, and cultural contexts at Roman Corinth. The paintings from Panayia Field originally decorated two distinct phases of domestic …
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Hybrid sketching : a new middle ground between 2- and 3-D
… we present a technique, inspired by classical painting practices, whereby the designer can explore a range of curves with a single stroke. As the user draws near an existing curve, our technique automatically and interactively replaces sections of the old curve with the new one. Second, we …
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The shape of the support : painting and politics in Syria's twentieth century
… dissertation offers an intellectual history of painting in Syria in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s that accounts for new regimes of political representation, from French Mandate rule to the mass mobilizations of youth-oriented ideological parties to Cold War cultural diplomacy. After an extended …
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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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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, …