Essays about: "Abstract Painting"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 essays containing the words Abstract Painting.

1. 1. The Sublime as an Aesthetic Experience of Art : The Aesthetic Experience of Mark Rothko's Abstract Paintings

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Filosofiska institutionen

   Author : Vendela Haviland; [2022]
   Keywords : Mark Rothko; Aesthetics; Philosophy of Art; Sublime; Kant; Kantian Sublime; Philosophy of Painting; Art and the Sublime; Aesthetic Experience of Art; Abstract Painting; Abstract Expressionism; Philosophy of Abstract Art; Aesthetic Experience of Abstract Art; Mark Rothko; Abstrakt konst; estetisk upplevelse; sublim; Kant;

   Abstract : 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. READ MORE

3. 2. A Palette of my Inner Universe – To Use Synesthesia in Artistic Processes

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Högskolan för scen och musik

   Author : Maria Palmqvist; [2021-10-21]
   Keywords : Synesthesia; musical processes; artistic processes; improvisation; composition; lyrics; graphic scores; intuition; creativity; inspiration; water colour; visual music;

   Abstract : In this thesis, the author investigates how the active use of synesthesia can be a tool for artistic work and creative processes, with the aim of finding new creative paths and to find a deeper understanding for inner synesthetic patterns. A method is created by using elements from the author’s synesthesia. READ MORE

4. 3. Dealing With Strokes

   University essay from Konstfack/Institutionen för Konst (K)

   Author : Isæus-Berlin Dina; [2021]
   Keywords : abstraction; process; painting; aikido; abstraktion; process; måleri; aikido;

   Abstract : Dina Isæus-Berlin is an abstract painter. The essay examines an artistic practice, its intentions, methods and connection to aikido. Aikido is shortly presented as are the artistic process - how a painting is made. The studio and the dojo are central places. READ MORE

5. 4. Breaking Myths! : Unveiling the storytelling processes in the reception of Hilma af Klint from the 1980s and 2010s

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

   Author : Anni Reponen; [2020]
   Keywords : Hilma af Klint; Art criticism; spiritual art; early abstract art; art historiography; the 1980s; the 1990s; Moderna Museet; Swedish art;

   Abstract : This dissertation studies the critical reception of Hilma af Klint trough three exhibitions: Spiritual in Art – Abstract Painting 1890-1985 (Los Angeles, 1986), Secret Pictures by Hilma af Klint, (Helsinki, 1988) and Hilma af Klint – A Pioneer of Abstraction (Stockholm, 2013), addressing the crucial prominent figures and voices in the discursive field around af Klint. The aim is carried out through the Critical Discourse Analysis by Norman Fairclough, coupled with Pierre Bourdieu's concept of the cultural field and habitus. READ MORE

6. 5. Inger Ekdahl : Swedish Abstract Expressionism

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

   Author : Alexander Engström; [2020]
   Keywords : Inger Ekdahl; Spontaneity; Tachism; Abstract Expressionism; Action Painting.;

   Abstract : Inger Ekdahl was a female painter at the center of Swedish Abstract Expressionism in the fifties. This essay investigates how her art was received in Stockholm and Paris. READ MORE