Browsing by Subject "art"
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Formal Exhibition
(2013-05-17)This paper examines surface and glaze exploration within ceramic sculpture. By using wheel and hand building techniques to make the foundation of forms, graduate student Brianna Deterling experimented with the surface and ... -
The Hopi Katsina Art and Ritual: Preserving a People of Peace
(2012)This thesis examines the visual culture of the Hopi through Katsinam. The Hopi have survived for thousands of years by maintaining their cultural traditions through their relationships with Katsinam. Katsinam are ... -
Hybridity and Representation in an Ancient Mediterranean Context: The Cultures In-Between Cypriote Culture
(2006-03)This working paper examines the art, culture, and religion of ancient Cyprus in order to study the ancient Mediterranean in the context of a global community. -
Pieces: the Women of Nauvoo
(2013-06-04)This art installation commemorates the experience of Mormon pioneer women who helped to build, lived in, and were eventually expelled from the city of Nauvoo, Illinois in the mid nineteenth century. It consists of oil ... -
Spiritualty in Modern Art
(2010)This thesis includes the interpretation of art as a religious device in early history that was essentially, exclusively used within the context of spirituality. Art from around the world reveals the deep roots between ... -
Using the computer-driven VR environment to promote experiences of natural world immersion
(2013-03-04)In December, 2011, over 800 people experienced the exhibit, <1>:"der"//pattern for a virtual environment, created for the fully immersive CAVE (Trademarked) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This exhibition took my ... -
Venus Anadyomene: The Mythological Symbolism from Antiquity to the 19th Century
(2011)This thesis includes reading the chosen artworks as a visual interpretation of the written mythological birth of Venus by the sea. Reading the selected painting as visual novels, the pictorial symbolism helps prove or ...