Essays about: "Contemporary painting"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 15 essays containing the words Contemporary painting.

  1. 11. Glitch Art Narratives: An investigation of the relation between noise and meaning

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

    Author : Virginia Sotiraki; [2014]
    Keywords : Semiotics; Paul Virilio; Noise; Glitch Art; Arts and Architecture;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates the ontological meta-narratives of glitch art and focuses on it as the transition from images with noise, into a site of meaning. In the first chapter I will discuss glitch art as a failure in communication that stimulates our perception. READ MORE

  3. 12. Contemporary Art as a Catalyst for Social Change : Public Art and Art Production in a Community of Practice

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Avdelningen för Kultur, samhälle, mediegestaltning – KSM; Linköpings universitet/Filosofiska fakulteten

    Author : Matilda Lindström; [2014]
    Keywords : Contemporary Art; Community; Community of Practice; Mural Painting; Ghana; Community Art; Public Art; Representation;

    Abstract : This master thesis contextualise, and discuss the contemporary art as a catalyst for change, and raises social issues through art production in the urban district Nima. Perspectives of "community", and "community of practice" affiliates with examples of placed based art, mainly mural paintings performed in the urban landscape of the community, in the stigmatised community Nima, an area in Ghana’s capital Accra. READ MORE

  4. 13. (Untitled)

    University essay from Kungl. Konsthögskolan

    Author : Mads Aarøe; [2013]
    Keywords : Semiotic resource; communicative art; semiotic regime; affordance;

    Abstract : The work revolves aorund the notion of the artist as a jester. In 6 parts the text points to both (art) history and contemporary art. The form resembles to an extent the structuring of the later solo-exhibition and seeks to prevent a linear reading and as such, form becomes content. . READ MORE

  5. 14. Archive of Fear and Love - On the discourse of history, memory and nostalgia in contemporary art

    University essay from IT-universitetet i Göteborg/Tillämpad informationsteknologi

    Author : Lars Olsson; [2011-02-28]
    Keywords : archive; history; memory; nostalgia; contemporary art; installation art; video art; nuclear energy; technological determinism;

    Abstract : In my master thesis project, I deal with the ongoing discourse in contemporary art on archive, memory, nostalgia and history. I am making different versions of archival “total” installations dealing with nuclear power, fear, hope and connections between the political and the private. READ MORE

  6. 15. Common Objects : postmodernist discourse, naivety and the logic of consumption in the work of Donald Baechler

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

    Author : Joakim Borda-Pedreira; [2007]
    Keywords : Baechler; Donald; 1956-; postmodernism; consumer society; Pop Art; Naivism; Contemporary painting; konsumtion; Art History; Konstvetenskap; Arts and Architecture;

    Abstract : This is a poststructuralist study of strategies of representation in the work of American artist Donald Baechler. Tracing late-modern discourse on consumer society and cultural fragmentation - as well as art historical debates on the demise of painting - in a number of paintings by Baechler, I attempt to shed some light on key issues in contemporary figurative art. READ MORE