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A history of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts | Allen, Ronald C. | In April 2003, an assessment of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts was completed. The results of the assessment revealed that there were substantially differing accounts of the museum's history. This study raised a critical question: What is the history of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts? The last few years ... | Art/Art History | 2005-05 |
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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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Across the Road | Meikle, David W. | The rolling foothills, rugged mountains, and sharp red rock found in the West have always held great appeal to me. I am a keen observer of the environment around me. I am constantly making mental notes about what is happening to the land at various times of day and at different times of year. A... | Art/Art History | 2006-05 |
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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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The art of Aaron Douglas, the evolution of jazz and the Harlem Renaissance | Duffin, Lance W. | Never before in American history had there been a more concentrated and energetic outpouring of literary, visual and musical artistic production than that of the period known as the Harlem Renaissance. This period, from 1919 through 1934, was an optimistic, dynamic time for many African Americans ... | Art/Art History | 1998-08 |
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The art of staring | Graham, Richard Nathan | My Master of Fine Arts exhibition consists of six monoprints on paper, two acrylic paintings on paper, and eighteen oil and/or acrylic paintings on canvas. My goal has been to explore new ways of paint application, to further develop my skills in dealing with formal issues in painting, and to reach ... | Art/Art History | 1996-03 |
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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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Bodily housed | Perreault, Alison Marie | Exhibiting work has to do with communication. Like the Berkeley illustration of a tree falling in the forest, a receiver must be present in order for the sound to be heard. In the sharing of the work is the desire to communicate the experience. My Master of Fine Arts graduate exhibition consists of... | Art/Art History | 1999-05 |
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Break the square | Wang, Fei | This thesis traces the process of my two years' study. After graduation from college in China with a BFA degree in graphic design, I still felt something was missing in my education, that is, the typography experiments. It became one of the reasons I chose to pursue graduate study in the US, a Weste... | Art/Art History | 2004-08 |
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Carl Theodor Dreyer and La Passion de Jeanne D'Arc: expanding avant-garde modernism in the early twentieth century | Dixon, Hilary | Danish film maker, Carl Theodor Dreyer (1889-1964) is acknowledged as one o f the world's great directors. His 1927 film, La Passion de Jeanne d 'Arc is often cited as his greatest masterpiece. However, the works of Dreyer are rarely screened or discussed because they cannot be cate... | Art/Art History | 1999-08 |
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Change through process | Coberly, Claudia Furnish | After maintaining a professional painting career for more than twenty years, my primary objective for graduate school has been to gain maturity in my painting. I was determined to expand my work ethic beyond self-imposed limitations. I believe growth and renewal can be achieved through the willin... | Art/Art History | 1998-12 |
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Concerning the spiritual in Spiral Taffy | Christensen, Kent David | My thesis documents the body of work I have built since May 2004. This work was the result of an exploration o f the Still Life tradition since the 16th Century. I looked at the unique aspects and historical evolution of the Still Life tradition from the 16,h Century to the present. An examination ... | Art/Art History | 2005-12 |
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Design methods inspired by the Bonneville Salt Flats | Conger, Jeffrey Scott | This creative project examines the unlikely topic of automobile racing at the Bonneville Salt Flats to foster new ways of working with graphic design layout. Through this project I created four graphic design methods by studying the principles and methodologies of hot rodders and dry lake racers... | Art/Art History | 1998-08 |
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Design of Nature | Bunker, Carol Ann | This paper embodies three main topics that repeatedly surfaced throughout my graduate experience. What is a design process? An intense study of the thing that you are designing. The design process is different for each individual depending on his or her attitude, character, and personal experience... | Art/Art History | 1998-06 |
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Dormiens vigils (while sleeping, watch) | Webster, Maryann S. | Dreams about a disappearing ecosystem and an increasing awareness of the fragile nature of our existence inspired the eighteen works in this exhibition. These works express a deepened concern through understanding of life and nature as fragile, precious and sacred. I have interpreted the gallery s... | Art/Art History | 2001-05 |
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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 endurance of memory | Charles, James | My Master of Fine Arts exhibition consisted of nine prints and five mixed-media paintings. A variety of print making techniques were used. Photographic elements were incorporated with a Xerox-transfer method. The mixed-media paintings were done with traditional and nontraditional materials. My ... | Art/Art History | 1998-03 |
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Evolutionary intuition | Barton, Kent J. | This body of work is the result of exploring new directions. The desire to push and to open myself to new information has always been my driving force. Making these forms required me to work and think about clay in a different way, building on my vocabulary with the material. Producing this series... | Art/Art History | 2002-05 |
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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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Exploration of the art object | DeCola, Jacob Nicholas | I am a sculptor who works with materials, an object maker concerned with both physical and conceptual process. A critical part of my method of working is to allow a record of this process to exist in the finished sculptures. Perhaps the most difficult and rewarding part of my graduate experien... | Art/Art History | 2001-08 |
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The four graces | Ashby, M. Grace | The Four Graces is the culmination of two years of graduate work in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Utah. All but three pieces in my MFA exhibit were inspired by early- to mid-Twentieth-Century photography. It was the space and the placement of the figures that I wanted t... | Art/Art History | 2004-12 |
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Hand to mouth | Ramachandran, Sylvia Meena | Just as we make tools to try to overcome our limitations, we make gestures to try to connect with people and things beyond ourselves. In this exhibition, I consider the utensil as a poetic extension of the body. The work follows a decade of contemplating the meaningfulness of daily tasks and of th... | Art/Art History | 2006-08 |
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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 |