Master's Theses

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

Rights

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