
Department
Art
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Abstract
My artistic development is in response to an adventurous love in the creation of depth. These variations sonsist of several flat planes built up with contrasting textures in a style similar to Japanese landscapes. By including exaggerated hills, clouds, or vegetation, my work allows a conversation to begin between the image and the mind. I begin to explore nature and its complex workings, then I simplify the works into structure, form and movements that nature incurs. All I desire to invoke to the people of the world are these four words: Live, Love, Laugh and Learn. In conclusion, it was just as important to find a suitable material to create the image upon as it was to allow the image to be created. Some of it was controlled, and some of it left to the forces of nature. In the end, the experiments of material and motif proved to be extremely self-gratifying in the blending between art and life, in both a separateness and a unity. This experiment became my own spiritual emergence.
Keywords
Printmaking, Etchings, Lithographs, Processes & techniques, Drawings, Creative ability, Fort Hays State University
Advisor
Francis "Frank" Nichols
Date of Award
Summer 1996
Document Type
Thesis - campus only access
Recommended Citation
Kitten, Marvin J., "Spiritual Emergence" (1996). Master's Theses. 2576.
DOI: 10.58809/JNHZ3749
Available at:
https://scholars.fhsu.edu/theses/2576
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