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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 2006. / Title from title screen (viewed 26 February 2007). Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Sydney College of the Arts. Includes bibliographical references. Also issued in print.

This paper, in conjunction with a series of paintings and drawings, attempts to outline the theme of anonymity. The work contains images portraying the feeling of remaining anonymous within a city. The inquiry not so much records the necessity of remaining anonymous for the purpose of urban experience but examines whether the subject matter of the artwork could be communicated to a group of spectators. During an exhibition of the artworks, 20 subjects were surveyed for their opinions. Questions relating to subject matter and aspects of anonymity were posed to the spectators in a questionnaire and structured interview format. In a large majority of cases, spectators of the artworks isolated the multiple-choice answer that most described the subject matter of the artworks. This study gave a strong indication to the artist that the group of spectators could comprehend the subject matter of the paintings exhibited / Master of Arts (Hons) Visual Arts

Thèse (M.A.) -- Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 2002. / Bibliogr.: f. [59]-63. Document électronique également accessible en format PDF. CaQCU

La ricerca che ho condotto è stata resa possibile da un lavoro di recupero dei carteggi inediti tra Jacques Maritain e Georges Rouault. Il fondo Rouault-Maritain è collocato attualmente nell’Archivio della Fondazione Georges Rouault di Parigi. La corrispondenza di Rouault è frutto di una donazione di Antoniette Grunelius a Isabelle Rouault, proveniente in parte dall’Archivio Maritain di Kolbsheim. Il difficile lavoro di recupero delle corrispondenze, durato tre anni, è stato reso possibile grazie al concorso attivo dei nipoti di Rouault a Parigi. La corrisponenza epistolare consta di 104 lettere (alcune di queste molto lunghe) e un corpus più ridotto di lettere (circa 30) tra I Maritain e la famiglia Rouault. La prima difficoltà che l’indagine ha richiesto è stata la decifrazione della calligrafia di Georges Rouault, di difficile intelleggibilità. Si è quindi repertoriata una griglia orientativa della morfologia dei caratteri adottati tendenzialmente da Rouault in modo da favorire il lento lavoro di comprensione. Tutte le lettere sono state catalogate secondo un criterio cronologico e attraverso un codice identificativo. Le lettere sono citate secondo questo codice, e dal contesto si evince sempre il mittente e il destinatario. Altra difficoltà incontrata è la struttura sintattica della corrispondenza non chiara e talvolta errata; la velocità e l’urgenza sono i tratti ricorrenti dello stile epistolare di Rouault, almeno nei confronti di Maritain. Questa difficoltà ha quindi originato un lavoro aggiuntivo che ha coinvolto tutta la famiglia Rouault per fornire un senso preciso a ciascuna lettera. La terza fase del lavoro è stata quella della contestualizzazione di ciascuna lettera attraverso la individuazione delle circostanze e delle implicite allusioni. Il tutto è stato corredato da note esplicative a piè di pagina. Per il caso delle lettere di Jacques Maritain la situazione è stata molto più agevole grazie alla ben nota chiarezza calligrafica del filosofo. Il carteggio ha portato alla luce dati inediti che apportano sostanziali integrazioni biografiche e che illuminano molteplici aspetti della relazione fraterna e amicale tra Georges Rouault e Jacques Maritain e le loro rispettive famiglie. L’ultima parte della ricerca si è orientata nell’analisi dei carteggi e nella scoperta di 4 convergenze di natura poetico filosofica tra Rouault e Maritain a partire dagli aspetti inediti rinvenuti nella biografia epistolare e dalle loro opere. / The research I conducted was made possible by a process of recovery of unpublished correspondence between Jacques Maritain and Georges Rouault. The fund Rouault-Maritain is currently located in the Archives of the Foundation Georges Rouault in Paris. The correspondence of Rouault is the result of a donation of Antoinette Grunelius Isabelle Rouault, coming in part from the Archives of Maritain Kolbsheim. The hard work of recovery of the matches, which lasted three years, was made possible thanks to the active assistance of the grandchildren of Rouault in Paris. The correspondence consists of 104 letters (some of these very long) and a smaller corpus of letters (30) between the Maritain and family Rouault. The first difficulty that the survey was required to decipher the handwriting of Georges Rouault, of difficult intelligibility. It is therefore repertoriata a grid to orient the morphology of the characters tend adopted by Rouault so as to favor the slow work of understanding. All letters have been cataloged chronologically and through an identification code. The letters are cited according to this code, and the context shows always the sender and the recipient. Another difficulty encountered is the syntactic structure of the correspondence is not clear and sometimes wrong; the speed and urgency are the recurrent features of the epistolary style of Rouault, at least against Maritain. This difficulty has therefore given rise to extra work that involved the whole family Rouault to provide a precise meaning to each letter. The third phase of the work has been to the contextualization of each letter by identifying the circumstances and implicit allusions. All this was accompanied by explanatory footnotes. For the case of the letters of Jacques Maritain, the situation was much smoother thanks to the well-known calligraphy clarity of the philosopher. The correspondence has unearthed new information has emerged that make substantial additions biographical and that illuminate many aspects of the fraternal relationship and friendship between Georges Rouault and Jacques Maritain and their respective families. The last part of the research is focused in the analysis of the correspondence and in the discovery of 4 convergence of poetic philosophical nature between Rouault and Maritain since the new aspects found in the biography and letters from their works.

The following work investigates the nature of the aesthetic experience of the abstract expressionist paintings of Mark Rothko. I suggest that the aesthetic experience in relation to his paintings best is understood in terms of the sublime. To support my position, I discuss the impact of abstraction in comparison to figuration in art on our aesthetic experience. Abstraction in art, I suggest, provides the basis for an aesthetic experience where the viewer can enjoy the visual features and composition free from connecting any depicted imagery to our physical world. This, I hold, provides the basis for a unique type of aesthetic experience. Further, I suggest that the visual complexity in the abstract paintings of Mark Rothko, as well as the aesthetic appeal of his artworks, provides a sense of great magnitude and depth whilst captivating our aesthetic attention. The notion of abstraction allows our minds to never reach a final conclusion as to what type of object we are perceiving. The artistically refined manner in which the artworks are presented captivates our aesthetic attention, allowing us to fully perceptually engage in the limitless sense of depth and visual complexity of his paintings. This, I suggest, provides an encounter in which we through means of perception encounter the idea of a complete form of which magnitude we can never fully comprehend. I argue that this suggests that the aesthetic experience of the abstract expressionist paintings of Mark Rothko best is understood as that of the sublime.