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- Title
- Mercury Express.
- Creator
- Gran, Cangshu, Prusa, Carol, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Visual Arts and Art History
- Abstract/Description
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My thesis exhibition “Mercury Express” is the culmination of my creative research and the paintings that I have created over the past three years. This body of work is comprised of fourteen oil glaze paintings on canvas, ranging in size from 16x 16 inches to 36 x 48 inches. These paintings demonstrate, through subjective color and the application of misty layers of luminous paint, my residence on the edge of moving to the future and looking to the past. Through imagination my paintings...
Show moreMy thesis exhibition “Mercury Express” is the culmination of my creative research and the paintings that I have created over the past three years. This body of work is comprised of fourteen oil glaze paintings on canvas, ranging in size from 16x 16 inches to 36 x 48 inches. These paintings demonstrate, through subjective color and the application of misty layers of luminous paint, my residence on the edge of moving to the future and looking to the past. Through imagination my paintings express a longing for connections and offer glimpses of happiness tinted with a pervasive overcast of melancholy. Mercury Express is a visual expression of what I consider to be ‘Kitsch’, ‘Sentimental’ and ‘Adventurous’. Through this work I salvage and renew the child-like wonder that managed to survive into my adulthood. Through the positioning of remembered objects in imaginary landscapes, Mercury Express recalls and explores my childhood memories, ideas and aspirations to reclaim the wonder I have lost as an adult.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2019
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013211
- Subject Headings
- Painting, Art
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Creative anachronism: paintings on history and authenticity.
- Creator
- Boehm, Megan, Broderick, Amy S.
- Date Issued
- 2012-04-06
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3348626
- Subject Headings
- Creative Anachronism, Paintings authenticity, Historical painting, Visual arts, Art history
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Mechanisms oftriorganotin toxicity to macroinvertebrates and the role of the biofilm as a controlled release medium.
- Creator
- Laughlin, R. B., Jr., Cobet, A. B., Guard, H. E., Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute
- Date Issued
- 1988
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007330
- Subject Headings
- Organotin compounds, Tributyltin, Paint, Antifouling, Biofilms
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Tributyltin-contemporary environmental issues.
- Creator
- Laughlin, R. B., Jr., Lindén, O., Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute
- Date Issued
- 1987
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3333088
- Subject Headings
- Tributyltin, Tributyltin--Environmental aspects, Paint, Antifouling
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Lifeline: Expressions of Intimacy Through Paint.
- Creator
- Cassens, Ashley Nicole, Prusa, Carol, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Visual Arts and Art History
- Abstract/Description
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Lifeline: Expressions of Intimacy Through Paint is a body of paintings that seeks to bridge physical distance by sensually applying layers of oil paint to recreate the physicality of my husband. I allow the viewer to enter into a private exchange by the use of intimately charged spaces, like the bed, which demonstrates how paint can be a conduit for touch in absentia. By intensely remembering my partner in these works, I reconstitute my knowing him through paint and seek to move beyond mere...
Show moreLifeline: Expressions of Intimacy Through Paint is a body of paintings that seeks to bridge physical distance by sensually applying layers of oil paint to recreate the physicality of my husband. I allow the viewer to enter into a private exchange by the use of intimately charged spaces, like the bed, which demonstrates how paint can be a conduit for touch in absentia. By intensely remembering my partner in these works, I reconstitute my knowing him through paint and seek to move beyond mere representation to know and express him better. Therefore, these paintings not only bridge the physical distance between my body and his, but search for meaningful expressions of my internal conversations as I make visual discoveries that expand my understanding of him.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2017
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004869
- Subject Headings
- Memory., Symbolism in art., Figurative painting--21st century., Painting, Modern--21st century., Painting--Psychological aspects., Painting--Technique.
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Made Up.
- Creator
- Crowley, Margaret Louise, Prusa, Carol, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Visual Arts and Art History
- Abstract/Description
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Made Up, a body of paintings, expresses my love/loathe relationship with the beauty/fashion industries and the fantasy/deception they instill. Aging amplifies my fear of being rejected or invisible and is assuaged by being made-up. Pages torn from fashion layouts are manually distressed to become the visually striking crumpled images that are the basis for my painting. The wrinkled nature of my source communicates my frustration with aging and never being able to meet the standards of modern...
Show moreMade Up, a body of paintings, expresses my love/loathe relationship with the beauty/fashion industries and the fantasy/deception they instill. Aging amplifies my fear of being rejected or invisible and is assuaged by being made-up. Pages torn from fashion layouts are manually distressed to become the visually striking crumpled images that are the basis for my painting. The wrinkled nature of my source communicates my frustration with aging and never being able to meet the standards of modern beauty ideals. My careful repainting of the disfiguration demonstrates my desire to intimately repair and own the image. In taking my power back through painting, the defiled magazine spread becomes a layout of my ability and power as a painter to create and control the illusion. Paint enables me to accept myself through the virtuosity of its application, scale, and in the resulting illusion, in which cathartic moments of subversive humor play out.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2019
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013195
- Subject Headings
- Painting, Beauty culture, Aging, Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The legacy of the Highwaymen.
- Creator
- Rudolph, Elissa., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
- Abstract/Description
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In the 1950s, a group of African-American artists based around Ft. Pierce, Florida, began selling their landscapes of palm hammocks, colorful sunsets, and Evergladian fauna to tourists traveling south to the Sunshine State. Mass-produced in the artists' backyards, these subtropic landscapes found their way into Florida's motels, hotels, banks, and office buildings as well as private homes. The regional art form fell out of favor until the mid-1990s when an art aficionado coined the name ...
Show moreIn the 1950s, a group of African-American artists based around Ft. Pierce, Florida, began selling their landscapes of palm hammocks, colorful sunsets, and Evergladian fauna to tourists traveling south to the Sunshine State. Mass-produced in the artists' backyards, these subtropic landscapes found their way into Florida's motels, hotels, banks, and office buildings as well as private homes. The regional art form fell out of favor until the mid-1990s when an art aficionado coined the name "Highwaymen." Since then a resurgence of interest has brought new fame to the surviving members of the group. Along with this modern interest in the Highwaymen comes another facet of the subject : Several Highwaymen have sons and daughters who paint. Do the children paint like their parents? Are the children riding on the coattails of their parents or have they developed their own original style? Is the legacy of the Highwaymen continued in their progeny?
Show less - Date Issued
- 2005
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/58011
- Subject Headings
- Landscape painting, American, African American painting
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Toxicity of tributyltin to marine bivalves.
- Creator
- Laughlin, R. B., Jr., Pendoley, Peter D., Woon, Gail L., Bokman, Elizabeth, Chiles, Thomas C.
- Date Issued
- 1988-05-15
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3359102
- Subject Headings
- Tributyltin, Bivalves, Paint, Antifouling, Mercenaria mercenaria, Crassostrea virginica
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- STYLE DEVELOPMENT IN PAINTING AND IMPLICATIONS FOR COLLEGE LEVEL STUDIO TEACHING.
- Creator
- OBRENTZ, EVAN JON., Florida Atlantic University
- Abstract/Description
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Style development in painting is an important aspect in the maturation of the artist. In the propulsive theory, inspiration and critical control dictate the development of the work of art. In the finalistic theory, the final image is cognated in pre-production and dictates the work. Emphasis on style development is necessary in the college art studio. It is the single most important aspect in personal growth and success. Influences on style development include: a consistency in the work, the...
Show moreStyle development in painting is an important aspect in the maturation of the artist. In the propulsive theory, inspiration and critical control dictate the development of the work of art. In the finalistic theory, the final image is cognated in pre-production and dictates the work. Emphasis on style development is necessary in the college art studio. It is the single most important aspect in personal growth and success. Influences on style development include: a consistency in the work, the physical act of painting, media, psychological integration with personal expression, societal or technological stimuli, personality, and originality. A program to foster style development stresses a professional association between student and instructor where roles are defined, and freedom in the studio exists. Students write contracts to determine objectives and projects. Galleries and alternative spaces provide additional areas for expression. The program is complemented by indivualized readings, peer discussions, critiques, and written evaluations.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1983
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14177
- Subject Headings
- Art--Study and teaching, Painting--Study and teaching
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Nurtured beauty: cultivating balance between chance, control, extravagance, and restraint.
- Creator
- Spivey, Kim., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Visual Arts and Art History
- Abstract/Description
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Interested in nurturing beauty, I create paintings that reference life processes through layers of struggle, discovery, recovery and generation. Employing a metaphor of the garden, my paintings can be seen as spaces where I determine what grows, stays, is mulched, or weeded out. I seek a balance between coexisting desires of restraint and control and extravagance with a sense of coming unbound. I emphasize the painting field as a whole, while also paying deep attention to the minute, inviting...
Show moreInterested in nurturing beauty, I create paintings that reference life processes through layers of struggle, discovery, recovery and generation. Employing a metaphor of the garden, my paintings can be seen as spaces where I determine what grows, stays, is mulched, or weeded out. I seek a balance between coexisting desires of restraint and control and extravagance with a sense of coming unbound. I emphasize the painting field as a whole, while also paying deep attention to the minute, inviting the viewer to discover complex worlds at different scales within each environment I create. My intimate, domesticated painted environments offer the viewer the possibility to experience the spaces I find beautiful and to add to the conversation of where beauty resides today in contemporary art.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2011
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3172945
- Subject Headings
- Symbolism in literature, Painting, Modern, Themes, motives, Self-perception in art, Mimesis in art, Postmodernism
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Solace: Intimately Remembered Places.
- Creator
- Francoeur, Michele, Prusa, Carol, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Visual Arts and Art History
- Abstract/Description
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The culmination of my graduate research and investigations is my thesis exhibition Solace; Intimately Remembered Places. This body of paintings is a visual representation of land, water and flora that focuses on my abstraction of nature to extract essential elements that expresses my deep connection to a specific time and place, layered with associated memories. By revisiting a landscape over a sustained period of time, I developed a personal visual vocabulary to communicate the essential...
Show moreThe culmination of my graduate research and investigations is my thesis exhibition Solace; Intimately Remembered Places. This body of paintings is a visual representation of land, water and flora that focuses on my abstraction of nature to extract essential elements that expresses my deep connection to a specific time and place, layered with associated memories. By revisiting a landscape over a sustained period of time, I developed a personal visual vocabulary to communicate the essential abstract forms of nature and record the subtle nuances of color, light, shape, texture, positive and negative space to evoke a particular time and place. I expanded my painting techniques through the addition of a laser cutter. Rooted in a background of graphic design, my thesis also incorporated and included a book form using similar strategies.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2017
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004971, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004961
- Subject Headings
- Dissertations, Academic -- Florida Atlantic University, Painting--Exhibitions., Art, Abstract., Artists' books., Etching.
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Fractal analysis applied to ancient Egyptian monumental art.
- Creator
- Robkin, Jessica., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
- Abstract/Description
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The study of ancient Egyptian monumental art is based on subjective and qualitative analyses by art historians and Egyptologists who use the change in stylistic trends as Dynastic chronological markers. The art of the ancient Egyptians is recognized the world over due to its specific and consistent style that lasted the whole of Dynastic Egypt. This artwork exhibits fractal qualities that support the applicability of applying fractal analysis as a quantitative and statistical tool to be used...
Show moreThe study of ancient Egyptian monumental art is based on subjective and qualitative analyses by art historians and Egyptologists who use the change in stylistic trends as Dynastic chronological markers. The art of the ancient Egyptians is recognized the world over due to its specific and consistent style that lasted the whole of Dynastic Egypt. This artwork exhibits fractal qualities that support the applicability of applying fractal analysis as a quantitative and statistical tool to be used in this field. In this thesis, I show the fractality of ancient Egyptian monumental art by analyzing black and white line drawings of twenty-eight spearate bas-reliefs with three separate programs : Benoit 1.3, ImageJ, and Fractal3e. After preparing the images with GIMP2 software - used to remove non-original lines - I analyzed each image using the fractal box-counting analysis function in the above programs and calculated their fractal dimension, D. The resulting fractal dimension supported the consistency visually identified in the artwork from ancient Egypt, both chronologically and geographically.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2012
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3358966
- Subject Headings
- Egypt, Antiquities, Mathematical models, Art, Egyptian, Conservation and restoration, Mural painting and decoration, Ancient, Chronology, Egyptian, Fractals in art
- Format
- Document (PDF)
