Browsing by Subject "Abstraction"
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Abstraction, representation, and entropy
(2012-05)The following graduate report is an overview of my artistic endeavors spanning the past three years at the University of Texas at Austin. While at UT, I have concentrated on making paintings that focus on the relationship ... -
A culture of dissonance : Wassily Kandinsky, atonality, and abstraction
(2014-05)A Culture of Dissonance: Wassily Kandinsky, Atonality, and Abstraction by Lynn Edward Boland, Ph.D. Supervisor: Linda D. Henderson Wassily Kandinsky's interest in music as a source for ... -
Degrees of abstraction in French and English generic nouns : an analysis of word association tasks
(2010-12)In language, there exists a distinction between abstract words and concrete words. It can be said that abstract words refer to generic concepts, while concrete words pertain to physical actions or objects associated with ... -
Experimentation, diversity, and feeling : Adolph Gottlieb’s career in painting reconsidered
(2013-08)Adolph Gottlieb’s (1903–1974) mature career in abstract painting has been described in previous scholarship in terms of three phases: the time of his Pictograph paintings, beginning in 1941; a period of transition primarily ... -
Exploiting language abstraction to optimize memory efficiency
(2010-08)The programming language and underlying hardware determine application performance, and both are undergoing revolutionary shifts. As applications have become more sophisticated and capable, programmers have chosen ... -
The Leo Castelli Gallery in Metro magazine : American approaches to post-abstract figuration in an Italian context
(2012-08)Between the years 1960 and 1970, New York gallerist Leo Castelli was closely involved with Milanese editor and publisher Bruno Alfieri's Metro magazine--an international review of contemporary art. By placing his artists ... -
Painting in 2010
The paper is a report of the work done by Daniel Barlow Lane as a Master of Fine Arts in graduate school. The paper outlines his understanding of what painting is in today’s world as well as his individual work. The paper ... -
Wassily Kandinsky, Rudolf Steiner, and the missing object
(2016-10-06)This thesis examines the resonances between the thought of philosopher and Theosophist/Anthroposophist Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) and Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) by locating Steiner, and in turn Kandinsky, ...
