Components of self

Date Issued:: 2010
Summary:: My thesis exhibition is comprised of approximately eleven large-scale portrait paintings done primarily in oil paint on canvas. This body of work investigates the ways the identity of both artist and subject can coexist in a portrait and evolved from my desire to combine portrait painting with writing as well as to develop methods of using paint to express a merging of myself with the individual depicted in the portrait. My creative research has focused on the traditional form of the portrait as a powerful form of representing an individual and how meaning can be expanded through scale, brushstroke, color, texture, composition and the many variables that portraiture deals with. I expanded on the traditional portrait painting by cataloguing my memories and thoughts along with the thoughts of the subject by painting under, into and over the subject in my own handwriting. My "hand" is visible both in the brushstroke and in the cursive writing, preserving my identity in a "readable" way both literally and through graphology, or handwriting analysis.

Title:	Components of self.	111 views 33 downloads
Name(s):	Major, Christina Maya. Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters Department of Visual Arts and Art History
Type of Resource:	text
Genre:	Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Date Issued:	2010
Publisher:	Florida Atlantic University
Physical Form:	electronic
Extent:	v, 33 p. : ill. (some col.)
Language(s):	English
Summary:	My thesis exhibition is comprised of approximately eleven large-scale portrait paintings done primarily in oil paint on canvas. This body of work investigates the ways the identity of both artist and subject can coexist in a portrait and evolved from my desire to combine portrait painting with writing as well as to develop methods of using paint to express a merging of myself with the individual depicted in the portrait. My creative research has focused on the traditional form of the portrait as a powerful form of representing an individual and how meaning can be expanded through scale, brushstroke, color, texture, composition and the many variables that portraiture deals with. I expanded on the traditional portrait painting by cataloguing my memories and thoughts along with the thoughts of the subject by painting under, into and over the subject in my own handwriting. My "hand" is visible both in the brushstroke and in the cursive writing, preserving my identity in a "readable" way both literally and through graphology, or handwriting analysis.
Identifier:	624618630 (oclc), 2100583 (digitool), FADT2100583 (IID), fau:3402 (fedora)
Note(s):	by Christina Maya Major. Thesis (M.F.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2010. Includes bibliography. Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2010. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subject(s):	Major, Christina Maya Self (Philosophy) in art Subjectivity in art Visual communication in art Visual perception in art
Persistent Link to This Record:	http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/2100583
Use and Reproduction:	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Host Institution:	FAU

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