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Showing 1 to 20 of 195 for “"portraiture"”.
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Essence of Portraiture.
<p>Personages from my past and present have spoken to me in a familiar language that demanded a translation of their own ‘essence’ into visual form. Using the methods exampled by Cézanne and Matisse, I have sought to create portraits that are revelations of both the sitters and myself.</p> <p>The …
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Hebbel's portraiture of women
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University, 1928. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive.
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Pope's portraiture : a critical examination of portraiture in the poetry of Alexander Pope
This work examines and critically evaluates what the author considers to be the chief concerns of Pope's verse portraits, and particularly attempts to trace the manifestations of these concerns in the formal, rather than argumentative or polemic, qualities of Pope's writing. The works selected have …
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Egon Schiele’s Double Self Portraiture
… artist to systematically explore double self-portraiture’s potential to convey multiple meanings, by painting, drawing and collaboratively photographing thirteen works in the genre. In this dissertation, I argue that these works reflect Schiele’s interest in establishing a deep engagement with …
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A Portraiture of Evelyn Thompson Lawrence
… and books to add a deeper dimension to the portraiture. To verify the information Lawrence provided, three subjects who had connections with Lawrence in specific areas of her life were interviewed. The interviews from this qualitative research with Lawrence and the secondary subjects were …
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Interactive portraiture : designing intimate interactive experiences
… portraits extend traditional photographic portraiture in two ways: adding motion and interaction. I present seven interactive portraits prototypes that react to viewer's presence and gender, as well as portraits that react to neighboring portraits. I demonstrate how interaction design …
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Cypriot Donor Portraiture: Constructing the Ideal Family
… Lusignan and Venetian periods. Although donor portraiture is a mode of expression that dates to antiquity, in the medieval period an increasingly prosperous upper middle class used this genre more frequently. My concern is with the addition of children to these portraits and the ways in which …
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Intimation of life : photographic portraiture in art
… of their social world through the genre of portraiture. However, in attempting to make known the lives of those around them, portraitists encounter a range of complexities inherent in the representation of the human subject in a two-dimensional visual field. Portraits were initially an …
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Dualism and the Critical Languages of Portraiture
… of representation in the history of Western portraiture. Dualism - or the separation of soul and body - takes the form in portraiture of the representation of the head or head and shoulders at the expense of the body, and since its emergence in Classical Greece, has been the major influence …
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Seeing death : portraiture in contemporary postmortem photography
… Death: Portraits of the Dying (2004). The use of portraiture in each of these artist's series is crucial as it suggests an interest in the 'subjectness' of the corpse. Katarzyna Majak's (2011) theory of socialization as an attempt to lessen the scandal of the corpse through representation is …
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Bernardino Licinio: Portraiture, Kinship and Community in Renaissance Venice
… contribution to shaping a tradition of female portraiture. The chapter thus challenges the accepted conceit of women’s “artistic invisibility” in Venetian art, while simultaneously highlighting Licinio’s role in forming the genre of family portraiture. Chapter four presents a case study of two …
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Exploring the Coming Out Experience Through Animal Self-portraiture
<p>The intent of this study is to explore the use of the animal self-portrait with individuals navigating the coming out process. For lesbian, gay. bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) individuals, coming out may not only be a significant event, but a life long process affecting many aspects of …
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Youlogy : self/portraiture, Canada, and Taras Polataiko's YOU series
… face the question of identity in terms of self/portraiture. Centring my discussion around YOU , a series of self-portraits by Ukrainian-born Canadian artist Taras Polataiko, I will face the question of identity first with regard to portraiture, by defining the aspects of the self a portrait aims …
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Concealment and revelation: Surrealism's contribution to 20th century portraiture
… and whether it has added to an understanding of portraiture as a genre. It uses Richard Brilliant's Portraiture (1991) and Shearer West's Portraiture (2004) as points of reference, using the limited examples of surrealist portraiture provided by both authors and their criteria for the …
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Paul Gauguin’s Self-Portraiture and the Concept of Androgyny
<p>The dissertation contextualizes Paul Gauguin’s self-portraits within the nineteenth-century notion of androgyny. The first chapter explores Gauguin’s textual figurations of self in relation to the contemporary medical and philosophical understanding of androgyny and to the literary …
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Unjoyful Laughter and the Non-Likeness of Photographic Portraiture
… Among other subjects, my research compares portraiture to clownish performance. Hence, the photographic portrait shifts register, becoming less a likeness of the sitter, rather a portrait of the viewer´s process of interpretation. As an extension of our understanding of the genre …
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The faithful and/or flattering in 19th Century portraiture
… for this examination is limited to the painted portraiture of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and John Singer Sargent and photographic portraiture of Julia Margaret Cameron and Félix Nadar Tournachon. Rossetti and Cameron represent two Victorian artists whose vision is turned inward to the imagination, …
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Frida's moustache : making faces in women's self-portraiture, an exegesis
… art practice to interrogate the idea that self-portraiture by women artists can be positioned, and interpreted, as a practice that strategically intervenes in the politics of representation, gender and identity. The focus of this study is the face. The represented female face is identified as a …
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Portraiture, revolutionary, identity and subjucation: Anne-Louis Girodet’s citizen Belley
During the French Revolution, portraiture played an important role in the forging of identities for the new ruling class. In my thesis I will examine a portrait painted in 1797by Anne-Louis Girodet of Jean-Baptiste Belley, a black who held a position as deputy to the French National Assembly forth …
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The Experiences of Undocumented College Students Through Critical Evocative Portraiture
… The qualitative method of critical evocative portraiture (Lyman, Lazaridou, & Strachan, 2013) was used to collect, analyze and present the data. Congruent with the methodology, the researcher constructed a critical evocative portrait of each of the participants. The portraits provide a full …
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