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Painting as a Reflective and Generative Process
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Jian, Dan
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Year and Degree
2016, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, Art.
Abstract
This paper investigates questions and interests in my studio practice and how they influence the work I have made leading up to the 2016 Department of Arts MFA Thesis Exhibition. Beginning with the challenges in addressing one’s intention, the reader is invited to share my memory and the thought-process in creating two paintings listed in chapter one. Expanding a personal history to a cultural history, Laura Owens’ appropriation of Chinese artist Muxi serves as analogy to explain the aesthetic dialogue in which I am engaged. Through discussing the potential pitfalls in expressing personal and cultural specific feelings, I state that a body is both the subject and object of a historical force and thus needs to be the agent in my painting process.
Committee
George Rush (Advisor)
Laura Lisbon (Committee Member)
Michael Mercil (Committee Member)
Pages
23 p.
Subject Headings
Aesthetics
Keywords
reflection, painting practice, body, generative process, unknownbility
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Jian, D. (2016).
Painting as a Reflective and Generative Process
[Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1460927194
APA Style (7th edition)
Jian, Dan.
Painting as a Reflective and Generative Process.
2016. Ohio State University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1460927194.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Jian, Dan. "Painting as a Reflective and Generative Process." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1460927194
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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Painting as a Reflective and Generative Process by Dan Jian is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at etd.ohiolink.edu.
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