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1	The Committee on Taste and Leisure Barrie, Katherine E 01 January 2019 (has links) Within my studio practice I have been examining the aesthetics of leisure spaces, the implications of good and bad taste, and what it means to live one’s best life. Considering the history of design motifs and the influence of color upon the human psyche, my thesis exhibition of abstract paintings contains references to patterns, design movements, and modes of artifice that have historically been seen as brazen and tacky. These include nods to the Memphis Design group, faux marble, terrazzo, stucco, and artificial sand. Each has held an important place in the history of designed spaces, and at one time or another they were deeply celebrated before being criticized. I am drawn to the parallels between the surface treatment of furniture and architectural spaces, and the surface of a canvas. My use of materials includes a mixture of high- and lowbrow to reinterpret media such as highly pigmented acrylic paint, natural and artificial sand, volcanic pumice, and hardware store products for DIY home improvement. I use a formal, modernist painting language to elevate the artificial and superficial to the hierarchy associated with the moral underpinnings of modernism. By being entirely serious about the unserious, this work aims to question the value we assign to play and why tastefulness rarely aligns with fun. Color Hard-edge Abstraction Surface Design Histories Architecture Play Interior Design Painting
2	L'influence d'Auguste Herbin après 1945 / The influence of Auguste Herbin after 1945 Berchiche, Celine 30 November 2012 (has links) Après 1945, Auguste Herbin (Quiévy 1882 - Paris 1960) devient le maître en France de l’abstraction géométrique, une référence pour la seconde génération d’artistes abstraits, à la fois en Europe et dans le reste du monde. Les peintures d’Herbin réalisées à partir de son alphabet plastique, c’est-à-dire de 1942 à 1960 posèrent les jalons d’expérimentations nouvelles dans le domaine de l’art optique, de l’art cinétique, de l’art concret et de l’hard edge. La plupart des travaux réalisés par les artistes présents dans le Paris de l’après seconde guerre mondiale, tels Baertling, Agam, Dewasne, Vasarely, Soto, Fruhtrunk etc., n’auraient pu se concevoir sans la connaissance et l’assimilation du vocabulaire herbinien. Avait-on véritablement pris la mesure du rôle d’Auguste Herbin dans l’histoire et l’évolution de l’art abstrait ? / After 1945, Auguste Herbin (1882-1960) became the leading French abstract, geometric artist and an inspirational figure to abstract artists in both Europe and the Americas. Herbin’s Plastic Alphabet paintings are the forerunners of the wider experimentation in op’art, concrete art and hard edge painting. Much of the work by artists dominant in Paris in the 50’s and 60’s, such as Baertling, Agam, Dewasne, Vasarely, Soto, Fruhtrunk, is unimaginable without the advance wich Herbin represents. Art abstrait Abstraction géométrique Art concret Constructivisme Art construit Néoplasticisme Art cinétique Art optique Abstract art Concrete art Constructivism Neoplasticism Op’art Minimal art Hard edge Geometric abstraction
3	Kingdom Compossible Lauterio, Ryan 01 January 2009 (has links) Does God exist? Can we know for sure? What might it mean to know this? Furthermore what might it look like to make works of art while also seeking to find answers to these questions? This thesis details my personal experiences growing up in a world steeped in postmodernism and my move to answer such questions while looking to develop a meaningful, clear worldview and body of work. I have turned my focus on specific episodes in my life, which significantly illuminate a progression of thinking and experience. Together these thoughts and experiences have become the impetus for both questions and propositions embedded within the long haul of my work culminating in my thesis exhibition. painting theme parks God worldview evolution truth expressionism impressionism science high jump Martin Kippenberger Venice Beach post-painterly abstraction hard edge abstraction Bay Area figuration Sacramento Art and Design Arts and Humanities

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