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Puppet Master

Palencar, Christian L
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1524495452335687

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2018, MFA, Kent State University, College of the Arts / School of Art.
The landscapes I depict are meant to create a space that we can inhabit. Although the work is only a painting or a drawing, the various compositional cues and formal decisions I make are meant to draw the viewer into the two-dimensional space and they are performed through a thorough rendering of both the structural and figurative elements in order to create a sense of tactility and seduction while the abstraction of sky and ground depicts an open-ended space where the audience can plant their feet. Looking to Regionalism and the artists within the movement, Andrew Wyeth and Edward Hopper depict both the real and surreal respectively. While the latter definitions can be applied to both artists interchangeably, I aspire to be the joining force between the two; mixing the surreal emptiness of Hopper's cafes with the austere and magic somberness of Wyeth's landscapes.The artificial connection between the placement of the figures in the landscape and the landscape itself references a disassociation I feel from not personally knowing the figures in my source material. With the advent of more obtainable technology, such as smartphones with high quality cameras, current mainstream forms of social media also serve as a vast and endless database of source material. Taking screenshots from friends Snapchat stories, public Facebook pages, and Instagram profiles of complete strangers, these images are so far removed from any sort of sustainable context that when placed into a composition, they feel out of place, awkward, or completely alien.
Gianna Commito (Advisor)
Jonas Sebura (Committee Member)
Davin Ebanks (Committee Member)
John-Michael Warner (Committee Member)
30 p.
Fine Arts
christian; palencar; kit; landscape; figure; puppet; master; painting; MFA; drawing; wyeth;

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  • Palencar, C. L. (2018). Puppet Master [Master's thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1524495452335687

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Palencar, Christian. Puppet Master. 2018. Kent State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1524495452335687.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Palencar, Christian. "Puppet Master." Master's thesis, Kent State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1524495452335687

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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© 2018, some rights reserved.Creative Commons License Puppet Master by Christian L Palencar is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at etd.ohiolink.edu.
This open access ETD is published by Kent State University and OhioLINK.