Essays about: "Contemporary painting"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 15 essays containing the words Contemporary painting.
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1. The Controlled Hallucinations of a Fragmented Gaze
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/HDK-Valand - Högskolan för konst och designAbstract : I break down images, both physically as well as philosophically, into bits and pieces to explore questions surrounding visual perception; examining ways of dismantling, reconstructing, and fragmenting them; and questioning the way an image is (or can be) built up by breaking it down and building it back up again. What I am after is to dissect images and dive deep into them. READ MORE
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2. Who's there? : monologues on painting, indexicality and perception. A thinking process.
University essay from Konstfack/Institutionen för Konst (K)Abstract : What we encounter in painting is not so much the authentically revealed self of the painter, but rather signs that insinuate that this absent self is somewhat present in it. /Isabelle Graw/ So, then what is a painting? Perhaps it is all about time, a certain amount of time in the constant murmuring stream of consciousness and the unconscious. READ MORE
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3. Marten van Cleve - The Massacre of the Innocents : Comparative study of different versions of the subject and the function of drawings in flemish workshops during the 16th-century
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetikAbstract : The thesis examines Marten van Cleve’s painting the Massacre of the Innocents from the Stockholm University Art Collection through a series of technical examinations that were conducted at Spökslottet in January 2020 (X-ray, UV, IRR). The aim of the thesis is to examine Marten van Cleve’s painting technique, style and composition by comparing the painting with five contemporary similar versions of the subject the Massacre of the Innocents. READ MORE
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4. Still Life Portrait : Contemporary jewelry in the form of still life painting
University essay from Konstfack/ÄdellabAbstract : This paper presents an investigation in how a jewelry artist understands the life and death, permanence and impermanence of human, objects, and other creatures, by communicating still life in the form of jewelry. I will bring up a fact that death and impermanence have been forgotten by my peers, and use still life and contemporary jewelry to discuss it. READ MORE
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5. The Art of Producing Unique Copies in the Workshop of Marten van Cleve : Contextualizing a Technical Examination of one Massacre of the Innocents
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetikAbstract : This paper examines the Massacre of the Innocents attributed to Marten van Cleve, located at the Scheffler Palace in Stockholm, through a technical examination done in the spring of 2020. The results will be contextualized through the economic-historical context of 16th century Antwerp and its affiliated art market. READ MORE