Case studies
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Case study 1:
Title:
An investigation into the roles of intuitive and rational thought in the construction of abstract painting
Researcher / Degree/ Date:
Kingston, R/ Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)/ 2007
Structured or performance:
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Researcher create an abstract visual language.
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Paintings are unstable and subjective.
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The work may be scrutinised at various distances and viewpoints, according to the manner in which it is constructed.
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There is the view from across the room, the view of the work in situ.
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The scale, the materials and how the work is presented are all issues
of content.
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Examined close up the work the work presents different issues, in the type
of materials used, their inherent qualities, the actual mark making, what kinds of
marks and how the materials behave.
My notes:
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examine the role of intuition in the creative process
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His artefacts explored binary relationships, such as intuition/rational thought, body/mind, and the object/illusory nature of painting
URL:
<https://researchbank.rmit.edu.au/view/rmit:160393>
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Case study 2:
Title:
A GROUP-THEORETIC ANALYSIS OF SYMMETRY IN TWO-DIMENSIONAL PATTERNS FROM ISLAMIC ART
Researcher / Degree/ Date:
BIXLER, HARRY NATHANIEL/ Ph.D / 1980
Structured or performance:
The ideas and their exposition in this work are accessible to mathematicians, crystallographers, artists, and anyone interested in the field of repeating patterns; the writer uses as few mathematical symbols as possible, employing in their stead a wide variety of verbal constructs and visual materials.
My notes:
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Studying structural similarities between mathematics and art.
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The researcher discussed geometric proportions as a design tool.
Created successive constructions based on the infinite number.
URL:
<http://search.library.unisa.edu.au/record/TN_proquest303037557>
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Case study 3:
Title:
Instantiating ideas of limitless space: thinking through painting
Researcher / Degree/ Date:
Maddox, LucilaNalvarte/ Ph.D/ 2015
Structured or performance:
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This project is a studio-based investigation directed towards experimentation with painting materials, techniques and strategies rather than the finished work.
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The researcher uses artistic examples in order to trigger the ideas behind the works.
The serial visualisation offers a strategic model through which eachpainting becomes part of a conversational vocabulary of thought where thinking serially is processing fragments of thoughts.
My notes:
By framing painting as a register of processes of thinking through an ongoing experimentation with painting materials, techniques and strategies.
URL:
<http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:16718>
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