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The hat people | Kimball, Patricia | The paintings in this exhibit are the result of two years of exploration dealing initially with landscape and then primarily with the figure. Looking back, the challenges were similar regardless of subject: first, how to expand the subject beyond an "objective" reality more or less faithfully r... | Art/Art History | 2001-05 |
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Iconography of the trail | Brunvand, Sandra Lynne | A focusing element in my work is to confront the theme of life and death and how this dichotomy could be cast as metamorphoses of states of being. In many ways this is such a fundamental theme of our existence as to be at once too simple and too pervasive to be fully comprehended. As I co... | Art/Art History | 2004-12 |
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Improvisational structure | Hixon-Longaker, Victoria | I believe archetypal rhythms create life cycles and are manifest in the emotional, philosophical, and physical world. This environment is continuously churned by forces both positive and negative. My work is a direct response to this environment and its impact on the human experience. The power o... | Art/Art History | 1996-06 |
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In my neighborhood: an installation | Hart, Allyn | My thesis installation, titled "In My Neighborhood," combined collage prints, paintings, and sculptural elements. The installation was loosely based on the structure of an ideal 1950's suburban American home. Found objects played a prominent role in both two- and three-dimensional constructions. ... | Art/Art History | 1996-08 |
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Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol: two disparate American artistic identities shaped by the nature-machine dichotomy | Vergadavola, Salvatore F. | In 1942, in response to Hans Hofmann urging him to look outside himself and seek sublimity in nature Jackson Pollock replied, "I am nature," and later moved to The Springs, a rural area on Long Island, where in the isolation of his bam/studio created his signature hand-poured canvases. Two decades ... | Art/Art History | 2004-12 |
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Mabel Dodge Luhan: portrait of a patron | Steadman, Kandace Celeste | Mabel Dodge Luhan (1897- 1962) occupies an important and pivotal place in the artistic culture o f early twentieth-century America. Yet despite her prominence, Luhan is seldom heard o f today. This study examines Luhan's life and significance, using painted portraits, word portraits, and photograp... | Art/Art History | 2006-05 |
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MFA exhibition | Bench, Ryan Joe | The subject of my paper is a body of work representing my personal interpretations, experiences, memories, and processes of creating images using the mediums of printmaking, painting and drawing. The subject matter represents broad visual sketches of the landscape, not direct visual copies; but inst... | Printmaking | 2017-09 |
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Multicultural: Facts and findings from the two years I spent living under a microscope | Mehr, Annette | This final project paper is an accompaniment of my thesis work: a series of 11 oil paintings of bacterial cultures. These bacterial cultures were collected from volunteers, throughout 2016-2017. The paintings of these cultures are defined as portraits of the people who volunteered their bacteria. Th... | Art & Art History | 2017-12 |
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Onchi Koshiro and individualism in Japanese woodblock printing | Dee, David L. | By the turn of the twentieth century, the vitality of the traditional woodblock print industry in Japan had dissipated. Out of this dormant state of the graphic arts, two woodblock printmaking movements emerged in early twentieth- century Japan: (a) shin-hanga (new prints) and (b) sosaku-hanga (cr... | Art/Art History | 2000-08 |
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Painter of sentiment, painter of politics: Lilly Martin Spencer's allegorical truth unveiling falsehood | Weiss, Jessica R. | Lilly Martin Spencer was one of the foremost American female painters of the nineteenth century. Having built her career on domestic genre painting using the language of sentiment to communicate with her audience, her large allegorical work Truth Unveiling Falseho... | Art/Art History | 2009-08 |
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Pathway to color: the art and life of Henri Moser | Alder, Thomas Moyle | John Henri Moser's (1875-1951) paintings are among the most collected in the State of Utah. He is represented in numerous museums and private collections, but his Parisian art training, prolific Expressionist artworks, and adoption of Fauvist colors and painterly techniques have been largely negle... | Art/Art History | 2007-12 |
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The quasic garden | Sevenans, Monique Ann | Within this thesis I will discuss the origins of the work I have created for The Quasiac Garden. It will begin with an explanation of how I use the creation of art as an instigator of my intuition. There is a dependent relationship between the creation of materials and the formal elements of de... | Art/Art History | 1998-03 |
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Rembrandt's landscapes: a study of visual language | Bradley, Juliette | Rembrandt van Rijn seems most well-known as a painter of histories and portraits. Yet, he expressed a fervent interest in rendering landscapes. Eight authentic landscape paintings survive today. A previously biased academic tradition delayed analysis of these paintings by considering them meanin... | Art/Art History | 2005-05 |
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Saint John the Baptist: the model Florentine the transformaiton of John the Baptist's image in fifteenth-century Florentine painting | Muren, Gladys Elizabeth | Since the earliest years of Italian painting, artists have depicted John the Baptist as an emaciated, weathered, hermit-prophet, a portrayal that reflects his reclusive biblical experience in the wilderness. In the mid-fifteenth century, some Florentine patrons commissioned images of John the Bapti... | Art/Art History | 2005-12 |
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Seeing and reflection | Bateman, Edward James | Art has become a term that eludes definition. Inasmuch as art is a truly human activity, I believe that any attempt to explore this complex topic must establish as its foundation basic human capacities. I propose that this foundation consists of three aspects of human interest that come together i... | Art/Art History | 2003-08 |
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Sequential figuration | Gerhart, Daniel Lyle | The show contained twenty-two sculptures of the human form. All but three of the figures in the show were derived from five half life-size figures. Of these five figures three were female and two male. The group of five figures were each represented in the three media of beeswax, aluminum, an... | Art/Art History | 2001-12 |
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Simulations of input | Ragland, Gregory S. | My art is based on my dreams. By viewing my work you are experiencing simulations and reproductions of my dreams. My work is in paint, ceramics, and other mixed media. I use whatever media it takes to re-create the image I saw. I am an artist who uses signs, symbols and dreams to make decisions ... | Art/Art History | 2003-08 |
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Suggested thinking spots: on suggested photo spots and the center for land use interpretation | Bacall, Analisa Coats | Designed by Melinda Stone and Igor Vamos for the Center for Land Use Interpretation, Suggested Photo Spots is a multisited project engaging with the intersection between tourism and anthropic, or human-altered, landscapes. The project consists primarily of photographs of sites in which "Suggested P... | Art/Art History | 2008-05 |
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Surface image self | Lindsay, Marjorie | The work in my Master of Fine Arts show consists of seven large oil paintings on a paper structure with collage, twelve mixed-media prints, and three mixed-media drawings. I have moved away from making art based on perceptual experience of the environment toward work that derives from my persona... | Art/Art History | 1996-06 |
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Survival skills: art and video installations at the Fort Douglas theatre | Harding, Elaine S. | This thesis reflects the six pieces developed as resident artist at a Salt Lake City inner-city elementary school. They cover a broad spectrum which include empathy, awareness, devotion, wonderment and transformation. Evidently the creative process is imperative to producing higher-order thinking ... | Art/Art History | 1998-08 |
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Swimming in the gene pool | Gillett, Eric A. | Swimming in the Gene Pool is a creative project that applies specific concepts observed in genetics towards developing a working graphic design methodology. The methods, based on four types of genetic mutation that occur in nature, include duplication, deletion, translocation and inversio... | Art/Art History | 2003-08 |
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Symbiosis | Dewitte, Elizabeth | We have arrived at a point where we, as a community, must reconsider our relationship with the Earth. Our impending growth and the resulting environmental destruction is an issue that must be re-evaluated and focused upon in our everyday lives. As an illustrator, I have set out to create work that ... | Art/Art History | 2000-12 |
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Symbolic duality computer animation | Yeom, Hee-Kyung | The thesis project is an approximately ten-minute-long animation, produced through the use of computers and edited with sound. The animated story is about ancient Toaism and points out that these ancient ideas still dominate the people's life and belief. This project is motivated by the commonalit... | Art/Art History | 2001-05 |
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The symbolic image and its relation to Christianity and morality in contemporary painting | Hoeft, David William | Weakening moral standards and the increasing speed and distractions of contemporary life have contributed to the diminished capacity of individuals within Western society to feel and comprehend more deeply. The scales of available information are tipped to the sensual, inconsequential and commercial... | Art/Art History | 2002-08 |
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Timepieces | Dow, Valarie | This work involves my exploration of the beauty of places and objects which contain a human history and illustrates my interest in the passing of time. I illustrate this with the use of reflective surface. I hope to say that our past brings a richness to our present and deserves honor. The compil... | Art/Art History | 1999-12 |