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Si la peinture abstraite n’a pas bien sûr fait mourir la peinture figurative qui existe après elle, si elle n’a pas supprimé le paysage pictural, quel peut bien être le sens, la nature et la portée, au sein de la peinture contemporaine elle-même, du paysage abstrait ? Quelles en sont les conditions de possibilité ? A quelles conditions un paysage abstrait est-il possible, c’est à dire réalisable pour le peintre et pensable pour l’historien et le théoricien de l’art ? Telles sont les questions rectrices de cette thèse qui entend déployer et explorer le paradoxe d’un paysage séparé — ce qui est bien le sens strict d’abstrait — de l’exigence de représentation mimétique d’un espace naturel ou urbain extérieur « d’un lieu assez élevé, où tous les objets auparavant dispersés se rassemblent sous un seul coup d’oeil » selon l’expression de Fénelon. Ce déploiement et cette exploration s’effectue sur les deux exemples des oeuvres de Cy Twombly et Gerhard Richter interprétées comme deux modalités différentes d’une relève du paysage, dépassant et conservant à la fois ce dernier sur le mode de l’évocation : par un langage purement pictural, par le langage des titres et des mots dans la peinture pour Twombly, par la photographie et la photo-peinture pour Richter. A cet égard, Twombly et Richter tentent tous les deux de mettre en oeuvre aux deux sens duterme, une rupture et une continuité : entre la forme du genre paysage et l’expérience paysagère au sein de l’espace de la galerie d’exposition, entre la tradition du paysage occidental (Poussin, Turner, Friedrich) et la peinture des peintres américains contemporains (Pollock, Rothko et Rauschenberg), entre la peinture et les autres média ou les autres arts auxquels elle se confronte (la poésie pour Twombly, la photographie et la littérature pour Richter). La thèse est donc construite comme un ensemble de croisements qui rend possible le paysage abstrait renouvelant le genre du paysage, lelibérant de ses règles traditionnelles et, ainsi, l’ouvrant à des formes inédites et étonnantes. / If abstraction did not kill landscape painting, how would the pictorial genre survive within the context of contemporary painting? What would be the meaning of the term abstract landscape? Under which circumstances and conditions would an abstract landscape be possible? This research tries to address these questions by investigating the paradox of a landscape which does not represent mimetically space seen from a higher point at a glance, as Fénelon would put it.The works of Cy Twombly and Gerhard Richter are used as means for this exploration since they present two different modalities of a landscape which overcomes and preserves itself at the same time. In this respect, both Twombly and Richter attempt to implement rupture and continuity: between landscape form and landscape experience within the gallery space, between western landscape tradition (Poussin, Turner, Friedrich) and contemporary American painting (Pollock,Rothko and Rauschenberg), between painting and other media or arts (poetry for Twombly, photography and literature for Richter). This way, this study is constructed by a set of contradictions which make abstract landscape possible. This abstract landscape renews landscape genre, frees it from its traditional rules and opens it to new and surprising forms

This thesis attempts to demonstrate an approach to secondary art education which will emphasize the student's own experience as the basis of his art work. Furthermore, the students' learning activities are given a broader context by the inclusion of material from the history of art within the framework of the studio course. Such an integrated approach can give meaningful insight to the adolescent as he deals with experience in a visual form. This orientation to art education has evolved through the writer's own teaching experience and from reading the works of art educators. In preparation for the thesis, I researched the history of landscape painting, current material on art education and adolescent psychology, and the formal technical aspects of using color in art. The problem became that of integrating this diverse information into coherent teaching units. Landscape painting is the subject of the teaching units, or chapters; and each chapter deals with a different approach to the world of nature. The thesis consists of five chapters, including an introduction and a summary. The central chapters contain two sections: one based on the history of art and the other on related student experiences and classroom procedures. A specific lesson plan is included at the end of each chapter.

Master of Visual Arts / The Elephant and the Journey is about what and how people see in the land and how this is expressed through art forms. The dissertation consists of three main parts. The first in the introduction explains the use of the narrative figuration form in Thai temple mural painting in my practice, and how I used it to apply to the contemporary context in Australia. The second concerns three main groups of work including Australian landscape paintings in the nineteenth century, aboriginal art works and Thai mural painting, which apply to the topic of landscape. The second part in Chapters I and II, examine how significant the perspective view in the landscape was for artists during the colonial period in Australia. At the same time I consult the practice in Aboriginal art which also concerns land, and how people communicate through the subject and how both practices apply to Thai art, with which I am dealing. Chapter III looks at works of individual artists in contemporary Australia including Tim Johnson, Judy Watson, Kathleen Petyarre Emily Kngwerreye, and then finishes with my studio work during 2004-2005. The third part, the conclusion refers to the notions of cultural geography as suggested by Mike Crang, Edward Relph and Christopher Tilley, which analyse how people relate to a location through their own experience. I describe how I used a Thai narrative verse written by my father to communicate my work to the Australian society in which I now live.

<p>The present dissertation deals with the artistry of the Swedish artist Vera Frisén (1910-1990). The emphasis is being put on her landscape paintings from Västerbotten, in the northern parts of Sweden, but also includes self-portraits from her early years as a painter. Vera Frisén was born in Umeå, but lived more than half her life in Stockholm. During springtime and summer, she did however return to Västerbotten and the vil¬lages of Stöcksjö and Kolksele, where she painted the majority of her landscape paintings.</p><p>The study has been given a chronological frame, where the first part sketches out the contexts and environments that came to have an influence on Vera Frisén and her artistic development. Consequently, the thesis starts with a brief biographical presen¬tation, but then moves forward to issues more central to the subject. Important as¬pects are for example her years as a student in the art academy of Otte Sköld in Stockholm during the late 1920’s, and her first separate exhibition at the gallery Färg & Form in 1941. Other issues that are being illuminated in the study are the artistic and cultural conditions in Vera Friséns hometown Umeå. The discussion mainly cen¬ters on issues that took place during the 1930’s and the 1940’s – the time when Vera Frisén established herself as an artist.</p><p>The second part of the dissertation includes analyses of Vera Friséns paintings. In the search of concepts that further can explain the more profound existential values in her work, the study also links the themes in her paintings to other painters in the his¬tory of landscape painting. Concepts central for discussion are for example the aes¬tethical and philosophical issue of the sublime, as it is formulated in the discourse of Immanuel Kant during the late 18th century. Thoughts expressed by other artists, writers and philosophers, linked to Vera Friséns own thoughts on the subject, are also valuable instruments in gaining a deeper understanding of her work.</p>

The present dissertation deals with the artistry of the Swedish artist Vera Frisén (1910-1990). The emphasis is being put on her landscape paintings from Västerbotten, in the northern parts of Sweden, but also includes self-portraits from her early years as a painter. Vera Frisén was born in Umeå, but lived more than half her life in Stockholm. During springtime and summer, she did however return to Västerbotten and the vil¬lages of Stöcksjö and Kolksele, where she painted the majority of her landscape paintings. The study has been given a chronological frame, where the first part sketches out the contexts and environments that came to have an influence on Vera Frisén and her artistic development. Consequently, the thesis starts with a brief biographical presen¬tation, but then moves forward to issues more central to the subject. Important as¬pects are for example her years as a student in the art academy of Otte Sköld in Stockholm during the late 1920’s, and her first separate exhibition at the gallery Färg &amp; Form in 1941. Other issues that are being illuminated in the study are the artistic and cultural conditions in Vera Friséns hometown Umeå. The discussion mainly cen¬ters on issues that took place during the 1930’s and the 1940’s – the time when Vera Frisén established herself as an artist. The second part of the dissertation includes analyses of Vera Friséns paintings. In the search of concepts that further can explain the more profound existential values in her work, the study also links the themes in her paintings to other painters in the his¬tory of landscape painting. Concepts central for discussion are for example the aes¬tethical and philosophical issue of the sublime, as it is formulated in the discourse of Immanuel Kant during the late 18th century. Thoughts expressed by other artists, writers and philosophers, linked to Vera Friséns own thoughts on the subject, are also valuable instruments in gaining a deeper understanding of her work.

Thesis (doctoral)--Freie Universität, Berlin, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-294)

Master of Visual Arts / The Elephant and the Journey is about what and how people see in the land and how this is expressed through art forms. The dissertation consists of three main parts. The first in the introduction explains the use of the narrative figuration form in Thai temple mural painting in my practice, and how I used it to apply to the contemporary context in Australia. The second concerns three main groups of work including Australian landscape paintings in the nineteenth century, aboriginal art works and Thai mural painting, which apply to the topic of landscape. The second part in Chapters I and II, examine how significant the perspective view in the landscape was for artists during the colonial period in Australia. At the same time I consult the practice in Aboriginal art which also concerns land, and how people communicate through the subject and how both practices apply to Thai art, with which I am dealing. Chapter III looks at works of individual artists in contemporary Australia including Tim Johnson, Judy Watson, Kathleen Petyarre Emily Kngwerreye, and then finishes with my studio work during 2004-2005. The third part, the conclusion refers to the notions of cultural geography as suggested by Mike Crang, Edward Relph and Christopher Tilley, which analyse how people relate to a location through their own experience. I describe how I used a Thai narrative verse written by my father to communicate my work to the Australian society in which I now live.

Thesis (M. Arch.)--Carleton University, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 136-138). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Universiteit van Amsterdam, 2004. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-331).