Dissertations / Theses: 'Art of painting'

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Domin, Jacqueline. "Painting perceptions /." Online version of thesis, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/10902.

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Akenson, David J. "Art in parallax: painting, place, judgment." University of Southern Queensland, Faculty of Arts, 2008. http://eprints.usq.edu.au/archive/00006176/.

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[Abstract]The point of this thesis is to undertake a critical engagement with the art and life debate. This debate involves, in particular, the question of the location of art. Does art belong to an autonomous field removed from ‘everyday life’, or is art located amongst the objects and daily activities of our lives? Contributors to this debate usually defend one or the other position; either defending autonomy or arguing that art is, or at least should be, part of life. The debate is located through three historical points: the avant-gardes of the early 20th Century Europe; the neo-avant-garde of North America in the 1950s – 1970s; and American formalist art and criticism of the 1930s – 1970s. The thesis then engages the debate through more recent examples of art where the binary art/life is again the principal issue. Minimalism, Installation art, Site-specific art and Wall Painting are examined in the context of the ‘end’ of modernist painting. The argument presented by the thesis will be informed by a recently emerging theoretical frame which engages the reception of Kantian and Hegelian forms of aesthetic judgment. This critical context includes the Slovenian philosopher, Slavoj Zizek; the Marxist-Hegelian theory of the German critic, Peter Burger, and the U.S. formalist critic, Clement Greenberg. The positions held by these theorists and critics will be examined through examples of art from both the modern period and more contemporary works. Through this context, the thesis positions the art and life debate within a structural analysis, arguing that art, including objects of ordinary life understood as art, occupy places within an art structure. The thesis argues that the choice between art and life is not so much a positive choice of one or the other, but rather a choice between one and the same thing seen differently; that is, the one thing seen in parallax.

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Gao, Jianping. "The expressive act in Chinese art : from calligraphy to painting /." Uppsala : Uppsala University, 1996. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb376704405.

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Bundgaard, Helle. "An Indian cloth painting and its art worlds : perceptions of Orissan patta paintings." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1994. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/29346/.

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This study examines how a particular kind of Indian painting comes to have value. The focus of analysis is on the social life of paintings rather than the purely aesthetic. This is explored through a detailed examination of perceptions of the paintings amongst producers, consumers and art critics. The study is an attempt to apply the sociological institutional theory of art on Orissan patta paintings by developing the sociological approach into what I consider to be an anthropological approach. The Orissan patta paintings, with which the study is concerned, are circulated not only within India but also abroad and thus move through different cultural milieus. Following Arjun Appadurai (1986) pattas can be said to have a social life, whose value and meaning change through time and place (1986). The paintings are located in several value systems. These systems will often meet in the very transaction which moves a painting from one sphere to another. One of the central questions raised in the thesis is how particular kind of paintings come to have value and whether they are endowed with different layers of value. The model I have developed is of an art world consisting of interpenetrating layers with different semantic registers. The differences in evaluation and interpretation of the paintings at different points in their "social life" lead me to argue that the layers have the character of separate yet interacting worlds.

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Wong, Sau-mui Alice, and 黃秀梅. "Fashioning food in impressionist painting." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B46599058.

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This thesis explores the various roles of food in Impressionism by examining paintings of food so as to sort out their relationship with one another and their linkage to modern life in Paris in the 19th century. Food was related to spectacle, class reconfiguration, gender relations, consumerism and capitalism, and leisure, all of which were part of the revolution of modernity in Paris. By analyzing Impressionist images of food production, display and consumption in relation to these modern social and historical developments, the thesis explores the relationship between food and people, meaning the social dimension of food culture. In addition to standard art historical approaches, two research methods are especially important. First is to understand the general historical context of food imagery by examining 19th-century cookbooks, novels and treatises related to food, and popular visual culture including posters, menus, and prints. Second is to identify and analyze particular food motifs by studying recipes, statistics, and dictionaries of food. Five chapters deal with five aspects of food. Chapter one talks about the crystallization of food into spectacle as a result of the conspicuous consumption facilitated by the construction of Les Halles, the central food market. Chapter two examines two different kinds of food production – rural agriculture and urban artisan cuisine – as expressions of two dissimilar attitudes towards labor, linked to competing conceptions of time as continuous and discontinuous. Chapter three raises the issue of sociability, where the pleasure of eating can only be obtained through the engendering of a semi-private space linking private eating to public identity. Chapter four shows how the coalescing of food and women in Impressionism intensifies the pleasures of visually and physically consuming the female body, while paradoxically entrapping male viewers in desire. Whereas these first four chapters emphasize social aspects of food, chapter five shows how food affected the interiority of particular artists, demonstrating the embodiment of psychological traits in Impressionist still lifes of food. Overall, the thesis shows that Impressionist paintings of food actively interpreted and defined modern food culture as a continuous process of spectacularization and systemization, and that they consciously draw parallels between food consumption and visual consumption as similar processes of pleasurable consumption. By revealing that Impressionist food imagery sometimes does not comply with other Impressionist genres in interpreting modernity, the thesis opens new ways of thinking about both food culture and Impressionism. published_or_final_version Fine Arts Master Master of Philosophy

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Branham, Barbara Leedy. "Some visual issues of painting : an exploration of the painting process." PDXScholar, 1989. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3856.

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Gettings, Michael. "Breaking Art Apart." VCU Scholars Compass, 2010. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/2036.

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The human figure, allegory, myth, and the appropriation of other artist’s compositions are elements in my work. I aim to update traditional stories to conform to contemporary times and culture. In addition, I am striving to create a new method to visually express figurative storytelling. Breaking from the traditional flat painting surface, I use multiple shaped panels. The surface is broken into different shaped panels at varying distances from each other and from the wall. This allows for more exploration into shape and negative space while depicting the dramatic height of a story. As part of this method, my paintings explore the discrete nature of human vision, or how we focus on individual parts of a scene while the brain filters the gestalt.

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Walsh, Kerry. "Potions and painting." View thesis, 2003. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20040701.155706/index.html.

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Thesis (M.A. (Hons.)) -- University of Western Sydney, 2003. "A thesis presented to the University of Western Sydney in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts (Honours) Creative Arts, December 2003" Includes bibliography.

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Moffett, Jessica. "Painting the impulse." Thesis, Montana State University, 2005. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2005/moffett/MoffettJ0505.pdf.

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My primary focus in my paintings is the male figure. These paintings have evolved in a non linear progression. I went from representational to partly abstract and back to representational infused with sequential art. During this development, I decided to paint my figures to resemble comic book characters of my own creation and paint them to represent emotional qualities of spontaneity and dualities of my psyche.

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Henry, Anne L. "Animated electronic painting /." Online version of thesis, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/12240.

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Loayza-Lauffs, Mariana. "The art of Guillermo Kuitca." Thesis, Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B21021508.

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Hattam, Katherine, and katherine hattam@deakin edu au. "Art and Oedipus." Deakin University. School of Communication and Creative Arts, 2003. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20070816.121927.

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Allen, Ruth Esther. "Clement Greenberg : pure art in an impure world." The Ohio State University, 1994. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1144433966.

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Hennig, Sybille. "The machine and painting: an investigation into the interrelationship(s) between technology and painting since 1945." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1009435.

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Introduction: We, i.e. contemporary Western man, live in a society which has increasingly embraced Science and Technology as the ultimum bonum. The Machine, i.e. Science and Technology, has come to be seen as an impersonal force, a New God - omniscient, omnipotent: to be worshipped and, alas, also to be feared. This mythologem has come to pervade almost every sphere of our lives in a paradigmatic way to the extent where it is hardly ever recognized for what it is and hence fails to arouse the concern it merits. While some of the more perceptive minds - such as Erich Fromm, Rufino Tamayo, Carl Gustav Jung, Konrad Lorenz and Arthur Koestler, to mention but a few - have started ringing the alarm bells, the vast majority of our species seem to plunge ahead with their blinkers firmly in place (more or less contented as long as they can persude themselves that these blinkers were manufactured according to latest technological and scientific specifications). Man’s uniquely human powers - his creative intuition, his feelings, his moral and ethical potential, have become sadly neglected and mistrusted. Homo sapiens – “homo maniacus” as Koestler suggests? - is now at a crossroads: he has reached a point where the next step could be the last step and result in the annihilation of man as a species. Alternately, avoiding that, there is the outwardly less drastic but essentially equally alarming possibility of men becoming robots, while a third alternative has yet to be found. While it does appear as if a lot of young people, noticeably among students, have started reacting against the over mechanization of life, these reactions often tend to follow the swing-of-the-pendulum principle and veer towards the other extreme, throwing out the baby with the bathwater and falling prey to freak-out cults in a kind of mass-irrationalism, rejecting science and technology altogether. Artists who by their very nature perhaps are particularly sensitive - in a kind of seismographic way - to the currents and undercurrents of their age, have become aware of the effects of science and technology on our way of living, and many of them have in one way or another taken a stand in relation to the position of man in our highly technological world. Looking at the art produced over the last four decades, it is truly astonishing to what extent our changed world reflects in our art - a world and a Weltbild very different from that of our ancestors even just a few generations ago. The purpose of the present study is to survey some of the observations and commentaries that painters and certain kindred spirits from the sciences over the last few decades have offered, in the hope of, if not answering, at least defining and posing anew some of the questions that confront us with ever-increasing urgency.

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Parker, Margaret Ina. "Landscape painting : connection, perception and attention /." Access full text, 2006. http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/thesis/public/adt-LTU20080225.113947/index.html.

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Thesis (M.Visual Arts) -- La Trobe University, 2006. Research. "An exegesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Visual Arts by Research, School of Visual Arts and Design, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora". Includes bibliographical references (leaves 87-92). Also available via the World Wide Web.

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Dupuis, Matthew. "Charles Lebrun : painting the king and the king of painting." Thesis, McGill University, 1997. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=26684.

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This thesis examines the transformation in the representation of painters during Charles LeBrun's tenure as Life-Chancellor to the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, from an initial definition in terms of the monarchy at Versailles to one founded on the practice of the art of painting. To promote the status of painters and painting, Louis XIV was celebrated as the protector of the arts in a royal portrait by Henri Testelin and was depicted as the ideal subject of art in paintings by Nicolas Loir and others. A painter's stature was then derived from the skillful manner in which he painted the history of the King. Engraved portraits accompanied by verse of Charles LeBrun and Adam Frans Van der Meulen identify allegorical painters as more distinguished than those who painted in a natural style. In both cases, Louis XIV is posited as being the source, subject, and eloquence of the art celebrating his achievements. Nicolas de Largillierre's Portrait of Charles Lebrun is modeled on Testelin's royal portrait and offers a portrayal of the artist which advocates service to the monarchy, but it grounds aesthetic activity in the body of the painter. This conception of LeBrun, in turn, serves as a paradigm for Pierre Mignard to create a self-portrait that proclaims his status in relation to the art of painting rather than through service to the King.

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Lykins, Victoria L. "Painting in a sculptural manner." Virtual Press, 1993. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/864931.

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Robins, Amanda School of Arts UNSW. "Slow art : meditative process in painting and drawing." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Arts, 2006. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/31214.

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This exegesis is an exploration of meditative process in painting and drawing and accompanies an exhibition of paintings and large drawings called What Lies Beneath. The text contains several passages, called &quotmeditations,&quot which accompany the themes approached in the chapters and give insight into the thoughts and practices of the artist. The methodology involves the examination of the evidence of the work produced by selected artists, looking at the words of artists in notebooks, diaries and interviews and surveying a small number of local contemporary artists. The text opens up the possibilities of drapery and garments and of still life as paths to meditative practice in painting and drawing. The qualities that characterize meditative process/practice, derived from my observations, are categorized. Some of the strengths of these processes are revealed through the examination of the work of artists, both contemporary and historical. The work of Vermeer, Sanchez Cotan, Francisco Zurbaran and contemporary artists Anne Judell, Simon Cooper, Jude Rae, Alison Watt and Eva Hesse highlight different aspects of the meditative process in painting and drawing. The art works in the exhibition are documented and bring out the meditative processes that have contributed to their creation, including the use and meaning of the subject (drapery and the garment as a form of still life).

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Ferguson, Catherine. "Painting, Deleuze and the art of 'surface effects'." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.436209.

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Tierney, Mark C. "No revelations /." Online version of thesis, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/11609.

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Cleveland, Chad L. "The music of art /." Online version of thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/11203.

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Bachtel, April. "Innate Materiality." Kent State University Honors College / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1304282952.

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Whearty, Lauren Ann. "Making Space: Language, Painting, Poem." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1307394266.

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Ambron, Michael. "Painting as Becoming." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1343739050.

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Kristoff, Donna. "Wall works : painting as record and revelation /." Online version of thesis, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/11746.

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Pataki, Eva. "Haitian painting, the naives and the moderns /." Access Digital Full Text version, 1987. http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/bybib/10730862.

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Morris, Ryan L. "Hand/Face/Object." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent155655052646378.

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Coyne, Elizabeth. "When attitudes become form /." Online version of thesis, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/8826.

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Missia, Frano G. "Painting the nude by male artists in Western art /." Access Digital Full Text version, 1993. http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/bybib/11396210.

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Thesis (Ed.D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University, 1993. Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: Justin Schorr. Dissertation Committee: Rene Arcilla. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 112-113).

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Loveday, Thomas. "The Darkened Room: Painting as the Image of Thought." Sydney Collage of the Arts, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1103.

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PhD This thesis is an interdisciplinary explanation of correspondences between painting and philosophy. It does not offer, as could be assumed, a critique of philosophical concepts or an instrumental description of painting. Instead, it shows how concepts from philosophy can be used to see painting in new ways, particularly abstract painting. The philosophy discussed here is limited to continental or speculative philosophy, mainly, but not exclusively, the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. The work of philosopher Richard Rorty also plays a part because he presents a clear description of the relationship between vision and philosophy. From a philosopher’s point of view, painting is highly relevant to an image of thought and is in general, used to explain conceptual assemblies. Rarely, however, do philosophers talk of painting’s own philosophy. This thesis argues for an account of painting as philosophy of sensation.

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Cumberland, S. "Sensible signs : pictures and not painting after conceptual art." Thesis, University of Westminster, 2019. https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/item/qq49w/sensible-signs-pictures-and-not-painting-after-conceptual-art.

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This PhD by published work contributes to debates regarding aesthetics versus art history and theory. It provides a contextual review of anti-aesthetic legacies of pop and conceptual art developing from an understanding of modern art as de-humanized. The research is concerned with why, how and what to paint after conceptual art and proceeds by making a distinction between postconceptual painting and a return to painting. These themes are tested in the first of two of the author's solo exhibitions titled 'Four Circle Paintings'. The show consisted of lo-fi mechanical mono-chrome copies of gestural painting and promotes a conclusion that the label postconceptual painting is applied to artworks that are representations of painting and as such are not real painting. The thesis argues that in its urgency to distinguish itself from (authentic) painting, postconceptual painting demonstrates a contradictory appeal to aesthetics, which prevents the artwork from becoming merely a sign. Therefore, at risk of the same return to painting, the postconceptual painter values sensibility with the intention that the "fake" painting--or sign--is vexed by a 'real' aesthetic. In an attempt to circumnavigate the requirement to validate medium, the second exhibition titled 'Handmade Colour Pictures' argues for a categorical shift from the making of 'paintings' to 'pictures'. The show consisted of eight mid-sized works, using painting conventions--oil paint on primed linen stretched over rectangular frames--to produce images, derived from a hunting theme, that brought attention to their own pictorial conditions. The author, having outlined visual attention as a premeditated motivation, concludes that the "there" and "not there" quality of the picture that must be consciously switched between to see it as either image or object, provides an "experience of meaning" that is significant for the artwork in its distinction from an anti-aesthetic dominance of rationality.

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Budrytė, Kristina. "Lithuanian Abstract painting in Soviet period." Doctoral thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2009. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2008~D_20090312_110650-92526.

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The Aim of the research is to define and analyse works of Lithuanian abstract painting during the Soviet period by establishing and comparing the diversity of criticism and practices of abstract art in Lithuania over several decades (from the end of the 1950s to the 1980s). In this thesis abstract paining is treated as a radical artistic reaction in Lithuania in terms of its theoretical and historical characteristics, and the general artistic context during the Soviet period is analysed in terms of socio-political issues. This is a study of the most celebrated examples of Western European art (also American art) presenting the most recent tendencies that developed out of them and juxtaposing it with the Central European culture (as the area of Soviet influence). Western European culture and its artistic movements were a complete opposition to the artificially built Eastern Block during the Soviet period. The forced separation of this period defined its unique qualities that found one expression in Central Europe and a different one in countries occupied by the Soviets (eg. in Lithuania); it also formed the position of freedom of an alternative art. Whereas in the West abstraction, in its own time, was the great boom of modernism because it freed painting from the traditional language of ‘representation’ and illustration, in Lithuania, in its local context, it had more functions: it was considered to be the great achievement of late modernism that helped to discover newer than... [to full text] Disertacijos santraukoje nurodomi analizuoti Lietuvos abstrakčiosios tapybos kūriniai sovietmečiu, išskiriant ir lyginant kelių dešimtmečių (nuo šeštojo pabaigos iki devintojo) dailės ir dailės kritikos įvairovę Lietuvoje. Abstrakčioji tapyba, peržvelgus jos teorinius ir istorinius akcentus, vertinama kaip radikali meninė reakcija Lietuvoje, o bendras meninis kontekstas sovietmečiu analizuojamas iš sociopolitikos problematikos perspektyvos. Tai Vakarų Europos (bei iš JAV atkeliavusių) žymiausių pavyzdžių analizė, pateikianti išsivysčiusias iš jų naująsias tendencijas ir Vidurio Europos (kaip sovietmečio įtakos lauko) kultūrų sugretinimas. Visiška priešingybe sovietmečio dirbtinai suręstam Rytų blokui buvo Vakarų Europos kultūra ir jų meninės srovės. Priverstinis to laikotarpio atskyrimas nulėmė savitumus, vienaip pasireiškusius Vidurio Europoje, kitaip – sovietų okupuotose šalyse (pvz., Lietuvoje), ir iššaukusius kitokio meno laisvės poziciją. Vakaruose abstrakcija buvo modernizmo suklestėjimas, tai reiškė išsivadavimą iš tradicinės dailės kalbos, susijusios su vaizdo atvaizdavimu. Lietuvoje abstrakcijos apraiškos turėjo ir kitokių funkcijų: plastinės meninės kalbos įvairove buvo bandoma paneigti priverstinai primestą socrealizmo ideologiją. Disertacijos santraukoje atskleidžiamos Lietuvos abstrakčiosios tapybos formavimosi prielaidos ir galimybės. Abstrakčiosios tapybos užuomazgos –– S. Kisarauskienės, V. Kisarausko darbų pavyzdžiai, J. Švažo, L. Katino ir kt. tapyba XX... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]

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Bobiy, Mikaela. "Painting the zone : Chernobyl and the "Art of witness"." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape2/PQDD_0020/MQ54344.pdf.

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Brault, Daniel. "The Fragmentation of Painting or the Art of Associations." Thesis, Université Laval, 2006. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2006/24082/24082.pdf.

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Sprinkle, Mark E. "Picturing home: Domestic painting and the ideologies of art." W&M ScholarWorks, 2004. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623460.

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This dissertation describes domestic painting in Atlanta, Georgia between 1995 and 2004 as a market defined by its intentional connection of the ideologies and spaces of art with those of bourgeois domesticity. The first half of the work seeks to contextualize the market's various objects and texts within public and academic discourses on culture that commonly posit an antithesis between the practices of bourgeois women (especially decoration) and "high" or avant-garde art, as suggested by the sentiment, "GOOD ART WON'T MATCH YOUR SOFA." Thus, Chapter 1 addresses the promises and pitfalls of sociological approaches to understanding art in general, Chapter 2 addresses two recent field studies of local markets as examples of how methodological decisions can mask ideological bias, and Chapter 3 discusses the historical context behind the divorce of art and the home as part of the gendering of aesthetic creativity as a predominantly masculine pursuit, each chapter examining the place of the literature itself in the creation of the categories of art. The second part of the dissertation provides an account of the way paintings produced in the market encode its social and spatial relations as a way of visualizing the private home and its interpersonal contents. In Chapter 4, the author proposes intuitive vision to name distinctive visual habits and bodily practices of bourgeois domesticity in contemporary Atlanta, especially the role of artworks in the phenomenological space of the home. Chapter 5 focuses on integration as domestic painting's central quality and goal: the market's various agents are integrated in a coherent social milieu not restricted to art-related roles, but that is, nevertheless, focused through aesthetic experience of the physical and stylistic features of artworks as they, themselves, are integrated into specific domestic settings. Chapters 6 and 7 chart the concrete terrain of 'home-like' spaces devoted to the production and distribution of paintings in the market, while developing the distinction between phenomenological and sight-based representations of domesticity. Finally, the Conclusion returns to the supposed antithesis between avant-garde aesthetics and the various practices known collectively as decoration as a way to address the question, "What is bourgeois art?"

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Nicolaisen, Lelani. "Immersed in paint : Understanding painting installations through art practice." Mini-Dissertation, University of Pretoria, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/65593.

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Brault, Dan. "The fragmentation of painting or the art of associations." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/18486.

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Millward, William. "Abstract painting the development and analysis of innovative processes." Saarbrücken VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2003. http://d-nb.info/990055116/04.

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Wilks, Guntram. "Das Motiv der Rückenfigur und dessen Bedeutungswandlungen in der deutschen und skandinavischen Malerei zwischen 1800 und der Mitte der 1940er Jahre." Marburg Tectum-Verl, 2005. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2622110&prov=M&dokv̲ar=1&doke̲xt=htm.

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Pfohl, Katie A. "American Painting and the Systems of World Ornament." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11537.

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This dissertation examines the work of nineteenth-century American painters Frederic Edwin Church, William Michael Harnett and Albert Pinkham Ryder, and focuses on the relationship between their work in painting and their work in the decorative arts. Through their decorative work, all three artists explored "systems of world ornament" that introduced them to an international range of ornamental form by compiling, cataloguing, and comparing ornament from nearly all cultures and eras. Combining all of world culture single folios, these "systems of world ornament" promised to help American artists and designers study and sort a wide range of cultural influences into temporal and geographic order and thus make sense of the increasingly internationalized nature of American material culture. As this dissertation argues, the study of these "systems of world ornament" became for American artists and designers a powerful--if problematic--tool for distilling the increasingly international nature of American art and culture into a material form--and a formal painterly language--that opened it up to comment and critique. Ornament has to a large extent been understood as a mode of retreat rather than engagement with the clean lines and streamlined aesthetic of the twentieth-century, a crust that had to be cleared from painting's surface so that it might embrace the revolutionary potential of the technological and artistic innovations of the twentieth-century, but this dissertation argues the opposite--that ornament crucially informed American painters' attempts to update painting in response to the artistic challenges of increasingly internationalized twentieth-century life. History of Art and Architecture

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Taschian, Helen. "Naturalism and Libertinism in Seventeenth-Century Italian Painting." Thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3612041.

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The work of Caravaggio, which was recognized as revolutionary in his own time and exerted a profound influence on seventeenth century painting all over Europe, has prompted a wide range of interpretations among modern art historians. Some, emphasizing the controversy generated by his religious pictures, have seen him as a daringly irreverent artist, while others have found his unidealized "naturalistic" style fundamentally well-suited to the spirit of the Catholic Counter-Reformation. Some detect a boldly overt homoeroticism in many of his pictures, while others claim not to see it at all. Some understand him to have worked in an unprecedentedly direct, almost visceral way, while others emphasize his sympathy with new directions in the sciences or the intellectual sophistication with which he played his naturalistic style against the precedents of classical and earlier Renaissance art. Caravaggio's difficult personality has also lent itself to different readings. Some see him as a sociopath, if not a psychopath, while others see him calculatedly performing the role of social rebel in a manner that looks forward to the self-consciously dissident posturings of modern artists. Some art-historians have been led to conclude that he had highly-developed non-conformist values and tendencies that could be described as "libertine" in at least some of the varied senses in which that word was used during his time. The aim of this dissertation is to discuss the relation of Caravaggio's work and personal example to his immediate art-historical and cultural context, but also to trace their influence on an ever-more-disparate group of artists active in the seventeenth century in order to see whether his style, sometimes characterized as "Baroque Naturalism," actually implied a set of values beyond its efficacy as an artistic strategy, whether a commitment to it implied or was understood to imply a non-conformist or libertine orientation that might be a matter of deep conviction on the part of the artist or a position felt to be appropriate to certain themes or in certain contexts. The first chapter examines Caravaggio himself, while the second discusses three artists—Giovanni Baglione, Orazio Gentileschi, and Guido Reni—who knew him personally and responded to his work as it burst so dramatically on the scene in the very first years of the century. The third chapter discussed three artists who were active shortly afterward, whose engagement with Caravaggio testifies to a wider field of influence: Valentin de Boulogne, Domenico Fetti, and Guido Cagnacci. The final chapter sets two very different artists—Salvator Rosa and Nicolas Poussin—side by side in order to expose both the radically different responses to Caravaggio's legacy and the diverse senses in which the word "libertine" must be understood. While the evidence does seem to suggest that at least some artists utilized Caravaggesque naturalism in order to invoke a well-defined "alternative tradition," one that was understood to imply a certain range of values, very few committed themselves to his approach strictly or for very long. Poussin rejected it emphatically. Yet Poussin, too, deliberately positioned himself on the margins of the Roman art world in order to cultivate a distinctive approach to art, one that seems to have been consciously based on deeply-held philosophical convictions. The lesson seems to be that Caravaggio's example made it possible for later artists to develop strategies with which to express their dissent from the prevailing values and practices of their time, and that even if their work did not look like his, they were indebted to him.

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Belda, Angel. "PAINTING MUSIC : Creating a new performance to explore the relation between music and painting." Thesis, Kungl. Musikhögskolan, Institutionen för klassisk musik, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kmh:diva-4206.

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This work seeks to explore the relationship between two arts: music and painting. The aim of this thesis is the creation and execution of an interdisciplinary performance in which music and painting dialogue live, "Painting music", to investigate how both arts relate and influence each other when they are part of a single artistic act and how performers and audience perceive this relationship. To do so, we will investigate interdisciplinary performances, synesthesia (union of perceptions) and the different ways in which painting and music can relate to each other.

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Shao, Yiyang, of Western Sydney Nepean University, Faculty of Visual and Performing Arts, and Department of Art History and Criticism. "Major trends in contemporary Chinese painting." THESIS_FVPA_SD_Shao_Y.xml, 1996. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/531.

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Three major trends are evident in Chinese ink painting: academic reformism, modernism and neo-traditionalism. While reformists are calling for stylistic freedom and a return to humanism, modernists seek the adoption of Western modes of thought and practice to develop and reform Chinese tradition. The new literati painting which has seen a resurgence of innovative theory and technique of an indigenous Chinese painting tradition distinguishes neo-traditionalism. Many scholars believe that developments in Chinese painting represent a decline in the history of Chinese art but, in this authors’ opinion, this has been a period of transformation in aesthetic conception and expression. Chinese ink painting, which is still the dominant stream in twentieth century Chinese art and a continuation of its development, can be seen in the work of many contemporary artists. It is more than likely that the pluralism in contemporary Chinese art discussed in this thesis will continue although the forms it takes will to some extent be determined by political and economic factors. It is unlikely that contemporary Chinese art will totally reject the established cultural and aesthetic systems and establish a new one, based on the Western system. The traditions of Chinese culture remain strong, and it appears much more probable that an internal ‘re-shaping’ of both indigenous and imported elements will result in an artistic tradition that remains distinctively ‘Chinese’ as well as contemporary Master of Arts (Hons)

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Torres, Anita Jacinta. "The Flora and Fauna in Eighteenth-Century Colonial Mexican Casta Paintings." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2006. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5210/.

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The primary objective of this thesis is to identify patterns of appearance among the flora and fauna of selected eighteenth-century New Spanish casta paintings. The objectives of the thesis are to determine what types of flora and fauna are present within selected casta paintings, whether the flora and fauna's provenance is Spanish or Mexican and whether there are any potential associations of particular flora and fauna with the races being depicted in the same composition. I focus my flora and fauna research on three sets of casta paintings produced between 1750 and 1800: Miguel Cabrera's 1763 series, José Joaquín Magón's 1770 casta paintings, and Andrés de Islas' 1774 sequence. Although the paintings fall into the same genre and within a period of a little over a decade, they nevertheless offer different visions of New Spain's natural bounty and include objects designed to satisfy Europe's interest in the exotic.

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Gephart, Kathryn B. "Ellen Anderson, Mildred Burrage, and the Errancy of Modernist Painting." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1367942693.

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Smith, John Arthur. "An analytic sociology of art : art and society and the origins of modernist painting." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.286130.

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Mikl, Aimee Sue. "Fairy painting in nineteenth century art and late twentieth century art a comparative study /." Menomonie, WI : University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2004. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2004/2004mikla.pdf.

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Qian, Zifan. "Enhanced realism in the development of my painting." PDXScholar, 1989. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3919.

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It is a basic truth that the artist must have independent experience and personality in order to create art from life. Combining a traditional realistic style with some elements of abstract composition fits my personality. My paintings represent a pursuit of this idea that is the enhanced realism in the development of my painting.

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Maeng, Hyeyoung. "Documentation art and Korean Bunche painting : an investigation of Deleuze's Transcendental Realism through the painting process." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2017. http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/125344/.

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This art practice-based research aims to rediscover Gilles Deleuze’s theory of art as an aesthetics of Transcendental Realism through the process of Korean Bunche painting. Bunche painting, which I have been working on for twenty years, refers to a thousand-yearold traditional Korean painting technique which uses powder pigments mixed with water glue (Agyo) on Korean paper (Hanji) in multiple layers. By means of an action research methodology, a series of my Bunche paintings’ processes were documented with digital photography and film, and reinvented as an independent video art piece which I call Documentation Art. This Documentation Art project challenges the conventional understanding of modern Korean Bunche painting in relation to the influence of Japanese Nihonga and Western abstract painting, and produces a new experimental potentiality, by means of interdisciplinary studies of Deleuze’s theory of art and the Korean art movement of Trueview (Jingyeong) realism. Throughout this research project, I explore how Deleuze’s process ontology and ‘virtuality’ give form to Documentation Art through ‘becoming’ and ‘desubjectification’ associated with transcendental time. Deleuze’s concept of the transcendental field of immanence, as a condition of real experience, radically recasts Plato’s Idea and subverts the notion of representation derived from Kantian transcendental aesthetic. This is the basis of the aesthetics of Transcendental Realism which integrates Deleuze’s ‘transcendental aesthetics of sensation’ with the aesthetics of ‘view from Tao’, based on Deleuze’s ontological position of the univocity of being. As a result, the Documentation Art is provisionally defined as Agencement machines, which operate by connecting different fields, and giving the connected assemblages entirely new sensesthrough the experimental process. In Deleuze’s aesthetics of Transcendental Realism, the Documentation Art project searches for the real in the deepest of Deleuze’s ontological layer, where transcendental time is encountered, underneath conceptual representation and interpretation.

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Reed, Laurel Elizabeth. "Approaches to fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century painting in Dalmatia." Diss., [La Jolla] : University of California, San Diego, 2009. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3355597.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2009. Title from first page of PDF file (viewed July 7, 2009). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 378-402).

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