THE CREATIVE PROCESS IN PAINTING: A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE
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1981
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Masters
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This thesis concerns itself with the transformation of idea through the manipulation of visual language in the creative process of painting. The concept of idea includes visual ideas derived from conscious thought about experience with naturalistic forms, from subconscious dream sources and fantasy and from intuition through the abstract process of imagination. Visual or
pictorial language includes the media with which the artist creates, that is, the paints, inks, crayons, pencils and other physical media along with the various techniques used to transfer these media to a picture plane. Visual language also includes the creative elements of painting which are line and plane, that combine into form and volume, space, created through form relationships, the sensation of movement and visual weight, and colour which creates light, internal illumination and atmosphere in a painting. The artist uses all of these elements in combination, each reliant upon the other to create a balanced, unified painting. A painting achieves pictorial unity through an adherence to basic pictorial laws.
Part one of this thesis will concern itself with a general discussion of the creative act and the role of imagination as part of that process. It will also deal with the creative process in painting and some of the laws governing pictorial creation. Included in the discussion of pictorial laws and visual language will be a brief analysis of the use of symbolic forms in art. Both universal and personal aspects of symbolic forms will be discussed and will provide an introduction to Part two of the thesis. Part two of the paper will concentrate on an analysis of my actual paintings produced from September nineteen seventy-six to March nineteen seventy-eight which comprised my M. A. Graduate Exhibition. This analysis will attempt to demonstrate the actualization of pictorial laws, the transformation of idea through the creative process of
painting and the development of personal symbolism through the use of pictorial language.
Part three will consist of a brief concluding statement.
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Master of Arts (M.A.)
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Art and Art History
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Art