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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"still-life"”.
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THE UN-STILL LIFE
Contrary to the common definition of still life painting as a grouping of inanimate objects, I want my still life paintings to be full of life. I have always been intrigued by the numerous approaches and different mediums used by artists for still life arrangements. I want the objects I paint to …
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MOVING IMAGE - STILL LIFE
… Central to my research is the aim to create a still-life image from filmed scenes documenting the everyday actions in my living environment. In some cases however the scenes being staged function as allegories of the states and situations of daily life. I decided to mix staged and 'real' scenes …
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Site and still life
This thesis uses the still life as a medium for investigating architecture and the city . An analogy is established between what the thesis defines as still life and an urban composition (a site in East Cambridge). Through this analogy a specific understanding of architecture, site, and still life …
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Liminal Perspective: Still-Life and Interactive 3D Animation
… to what have been historically proposed by still-life painters in classical history such as those in the Dutch Golden Age. Using 3D animation in combination with computer vision and physical computing, Liminal Perspective explores new interpretations of pictorial space and how our perceptual …
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Still Life and Death Metal: Painting the Battle Jacket
… is situated within the genre of contemporary still life and appropriative painting. The paintings presented with the written thesis document a series of jackets and creatively explore the jacket form and related imagery. The study uses a number of interrelated critical perspectives to explore …
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Life Still: A Sequence of Paintings Reimagining Dutch Golden Age Still Life
… which took as starting point Dutch 17th century still life painting. The works use an idiosyncratic graphite medium to interpret, appropriate and reposition the genre, resulting in a sequence of common focus. The sequence is illustrated in full, and is accompanied by a chronology of individual …
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Teacher Artistry and the Not-So-Still Life of Arts-Centered School Reform
… schools and school reform continue to proliferate. This study describes, interprets and evaluates arts-centered school reform which is defined within this study as <em>the comprehensive and intentional restructuring and re-culturing of schools using the theories and practices of the arts …
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"A painterly performance of politeness: Jean-Étienne Liotard’s ""Still Life: Tea Set"" and identity in eighteenth-century England"
… how Jean-Etienne Liotard’s 1783 painting, Still Life: Tea Set, functioned within its eighteenth-century context. Rather than considering the image as an academic exercise, depiction of the chinoiserie craze, or as evidence of the aging artist’s waning virtuosity, as other scholars have …
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Masters, master, masturbate (a master's debate) - relooking at the home, body and self through seventeenth century Dutch still life painting
The still life genre has been, and arguably still is, regarded as the lowest form of painting in Western fine art history. The absence of the human figure in still life painting means that the artist does not require knowledge of either human anatomy or history for the production of the work. Given …
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An exploration of the work of David Bintley, a very ‘English’ choreographer, with particular reference to his use of English Morris dance in Still Life at the Penguin Café and the process of translating ‘genuine’ English Morris dance to a theatrical environment.
… Particular reference is made to Bintley’s ballet Still Life at the Penguin Café (1988) and the extent to which he has drawn from English Cotswold Morris dance in the Humboldt’s Hog-nosed Skunk Flea section of the ballet. The comparison between Bintley’s selection of movements and their traditional …
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Unreal Reality: Post-socialist China's Massive Infrastructural Agenda in Jia Zhangke's "Three Gorges Films"
… director Jia Zhangke’s “Three Gorges films” <em>Still Life</em> (2006) and <em>Ash Is Purest White</em> (2018) to demonstrate the impact of post-socialist China's massive infrastructural agenda on Chinese citizens’ lives and psyches in contemporary Chinese society. Starting with the analysis of …
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Estevão Silva e a pintura de naturezas mortas no Brasil do século XIX
… interest in nineteenth-century Brazilian art, still-life painting remains almost an unexplored field. This research intends to displace the lack of studies on the theme by approaching the work of one of the most distinguished still-life painters among us, Estevão Roberto da Silva (1845-1891). …
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"Telling Balzac's Stories: Narration, Narrators, and Narratees in ""La Comedie Humaine"""
… of early nineteenth-century France is not a still-life; rather it is, as Michel Butor observed, a mobile romanesque. It is as active, engaged readers that we set this work of art in motion.
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The Architecture of Morning and Afternoon
The architecture of Morning and Afternoon. Create still life paintings using tenets of Purism to search for new form(s) from real objects. The paintings will be used to inspire and inform new designs for and architecture project. Using painting to study architecture will necessitate a dual world of …
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Oblique Strategies: Queer Opacity in Figurative Painting
… methodology engages modes associated with the still life genre, wherein assemblages of objects and props are staged in cryptic configurations and painted from observation. Motifs such as curtains, cloaks and apertures, containing obscured figures, represent conspicuous visual obstructions. An …
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Oblique Strategies: Queer Opacity in Figurative Painting
… methodology engages modes associated with the still life genre, wherein assemblages of objects and props are staged in cryptic configurations and painted from observation. Motifs such as curtains, cloaks and apertures, containing obscured figures, represent conspicuous visual obstructions. An …
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