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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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Intersection | Dolberg, Daniel Glen | The unifying theme that runs throughout the paintings in my MFA show is that of space versus form. Light versus darkness and the interaction and relativity of color are secondary themes that I explore in my paintings. The subject matter I have chosen to explore in-depth is the architectural form o... | Art/Art History | 2005-12 |
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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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Language and fragmentation | Blundell, Simon Henry | As our environment becomes increasingly mediated, so does our experience. My work is a direct response to an overmediated enviroment. Through mediation, our experience becomes fragmented. I am exploring the role of photography in the process of fragmentation and the way we construct meaning from our... | Art/Art History | 2003-12 |
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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 thesis show by: James McGee | McGee, James | The body o f work represented it this packet reflects on remembered and imagined experiences from childhood. Mostly symbols from a suburban world, the subject matter includes above ground pool and BMX bikes; the people portrayed are my family. These paintings illustrate what is specific about memor... | Art/Art History | 2005-06 |
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Motion pictures | Moore, Amanda Jane | Art cannot be created in a bubble. Motion Pictures is no exception. This body of work is a culmination of my education, location, and personal interaction with pop culture. Without my move from Atlanta to Salt Lake City, I would not have become so obsessed with my subject matter. Without my subje... | Art/Art History | 2006-05 |
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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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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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Reflection | Lockett, Steven Dennis | My art is based on my life. These life experiences acquired fuel my imagery. They speak a personal language of emotions both positive and negative. Using the human figure as my subject, I look for interesting ways to capture the essence of my thoughts as I create an image. The focus is on an inn... | Art/Art History | 2006-04 |
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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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Ritual - ceremony - immortality | Freeman, Etsuko Ogura | The following pages describe my experience in the University of Utah's Master of Fine Arts graduate program in ceramics. The technical aspects are not the main focus. The focus is on the symbolism, ritual and ceremony of the installation, "Ritual - Ceremony - Immortality."The challenge was to sea... | Art/Art History | 2005-12 |
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Rural decline | Hill, Jay David | Driving past Burley, Idaho on my way to Boise for what must be the umpteenth time, I pass an aged and worn out motel sign, broken and unlit, perched far above the highway on three naked metal poles. The motel, once an oasis for the road-weary traveler, is gone. The sign stands proud but weary, in th... | Art/Art History | 2006-08 |
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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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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 |
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Toward figurative expressionism | Kasicharemvat, Veera | The paintings selected for my M.F.A. show evolved during the last year of my graduate study. These paintings were a result of my continual search for the life force or essence of the object through the immediacy of paint. The four monotypes and four series of paintings represented a consid... | Art/Art History | 2002-08 |