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1	Spotlighting Truth and Beauty: Willa Cather's Tenebraic Word Pictures Mackas, Maria 08 August 2017 (has links) This thesis explores the way Willa Cather’s writing parallels visual art’s tenebrism – a dramatic way of illuminating a single person, object or idea by juxtaposing light against dark. Throughout her career, Cather uses this technique to convey truths relating to self realization, aestheticism, spirituality, and social awakening. Willa Cather Tenebrism Truth and beauty Aestheticism Cather and art Ekphrasis
2	Tenebrism in the paiting of Odd Nerdrum from 1983 to 2004 Conradie, Johannes Hendrik 19 November 2007 (has links) The hypothesis of this dissertation is that contemporary Norwegian painter, Odd Nerdrum (b 1944), uses tenebrism as a mode of beauty and a device to emphasise psychological states of being. Tenebrism is an effective kitsch device to create an impression of realism and so-called truthfulness while pointing to the deepest human sentiments and emotions. I argue that Nerdrum’s tenebrist art questions dark truths about modernity and its effect on the self. The darkness of his tenebrist style amplifies the emotional states of his human characters, and becomes a negative form of transcendence into absence and the power of its nothingness. Nerdrum’s paintings are a visual record of the human capacity to withstand selfdestruction and strive for restoration from the inane. His physical act of painting opens and refines consciousness by slowing down time, for insight and contemplation. / Dissertation (MA (Fine Arts))--University of Pretoria, 2008. / Visual Arts / MA / unrestricted Suffering Sublime Existentialism Isolation Kitsch Loss Painting Realism Empathy Emotion Destruction Absence Beauty Death Darkness Avant-garde Transcendence Tenebrism UCTD

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Spotlighting Truth and Beauty: Willa Cather's Tenebraic Word Pictures

Tenebrism in the paiting of Odd Nerdrum from 1983 to 2004