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Four stage & 3 months in-between | Romo, Vanessa | Time stops right before change occurs. As you cease to exist in your usual state of mind, you find yourself alone, reflecting, and ask what lies ahead? This sliver in time feels like a terminal. Years pass and you move far from the moment you thought was the death of newness. It becomes a distant pa... | Art/Art History | 2017-07 |
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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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American landscape painting: Dutch influences in the works of Thomas Doughty, Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, George Inness, Frederick E. Church, and Albert Bierstadt | Napper, Angela Sierra | Many connections exist between the American artists of the Hudson River School, specifically Thomas Doughty, Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, George Inness, Frederick Church, and Albert Bierstadt, and the Dutch landscape painters of the seventeenth century. Among these connections are similarities in ... | Art/Art History | 2007-12 |
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The art world expanded | Truxes, Anna | This paper explores the evolution of the concept of the art world, starting with the going-away, in order to show that effective art criticism requires knowledge of the art world. The nature of criticism implies that a critic logically identify, define and evaluate a work of art. Reasons are use... | Art/Art History | 2008-12 |
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Constructed realities and metaphotography Gregory Crewdson's twilight series | Cook, Ashlee | Gregory Crewdson's Twilight (1998-2002) is a series o f photographs depicting scenes o f American suburbia embedded in psychological anxiety and uncanny undercurrents. Crewdson stages these photographs, constructing fragmented narratives evoking fantasy, magic and the supernatural, pulling fro... | Art/Art History | 2009-12 |
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Emanuel de Witte's market scenes reexamined: an analysis in economic studies and material culture | Stout, Jeffrey Dale | Emanuel de Witte (1617-1691/92) is generally considered the finest Dutch architectural painter of the seventeenth century. Scholars have focused almost exclusively on De Witte's paintings of church interiors; however, De Witte produced a number of exceptional market scenes that have gone relatively ... | Art/Art History | 2006-12 |
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The architectural development of block eighty-eight, plat A, Salt Lake City survey during the era of Brigham Young 1847 to 1877 | Rogers, Janie L. | The object of this thesis is to document the architectural development of Block Eighty-eight, Plat A, Salt Lake City Survey during the time of Brigham Young's presidency of the LDS church in Utah, 1847-1877. The history of the block is introduced by discussing the architectural trends of the per... | Art/Art History | 1996-08 |
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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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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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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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A study in form: process and results | Burgos, Francisco | This thesis documents the interests that inspired the body of work that is the core of this MFA; it mentions the biographical antecedents that led to it; it muses on the thoughts and dilemmas that were present while the work progressed; it describes the technical details of such progre... | Art/Art History | 2006-12 |
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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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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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Be somewhere | Habben, David | I've always been intrigued by the idea of creating motion within my work. Simple dynamics in composition or figure have failed to truly capture, from my perspective, the sense of fluidity that can be found so readily in other media, such as film and animation. It seems odd to be so concerned about i... | Art/Art History | 2017-05 |
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Tom Betts & ephemeral realism | Betts, Thomas John | As Tom Betts researches his ontology through the creative act of art a hyperrealist oil painting is produced that alludes to society's consumption of time in an age where temporal states of awareness and interaction are governed by technology. He uses the subject of a teacup, a family heirloom that ... | Art/Art History | 2010-05-05 |
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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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A revolution revealed: David Alfaro Siqueiros' from porfirio to the revolution | Peay, Casey James | In his mural From Porfirio to the Revolution, found in the National Museum of History in Mexico City, David Alfaro Siqueiros paints the history of the 1910 Revolution. However, the history of the 1910 Revolution is only one topic of this complicated mural, which contains several layers of meaning... | Art/Art History | 2007-05 |
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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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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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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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The art of the book | Powers-Torrey, Mary Noreen | These six books were produced between May 1999 and November 2000. The process of making these books became inherently involved with the process of formulating the story. The story is my own story. These books that I have written, designed, illustrated, printed, and bound are made of my experience... | Art/Art History | 2001-05 |
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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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Exhaling the earth | Hedrick, Antonia | My Master of Fine Art exhibit consisted of nine translucent, fiberglass body shells installed with seven graduated photographs, four sculptural briefcases, five oil on canvas paintings, and 40 home-made artifacts in plexiglass boxes. I completed this chronology of works during two years of gradua... | Art/Art History | 1997-06 |
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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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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 |