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Title:
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Unofficial Canonization
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Creator:
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Freeman, James Matthew
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Subject:
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Thesis (M.F.A.) -- Painting
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Subject:
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Savannah College of Art and Design -- Department of Painting
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Rights:
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Copyright is retained by the authors or artists of items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
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Abstract:
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"My thesis paintings are figurative, meticulously composed and rooted in the Realism style. Concepts and emotions are rendered through both symbolic images and iconography while maintaining the naturalism of the images. This gives the intangible a perceptibility or visual weight that equalizes it to the importance of the things we can physically touch. The intimacy of my experiences became important to the content of my work even when framed by larger contexts such as realism, historical portraits, and Martin Heidegger's concepts of being. By painting my father and the manifestations of his tattoos, or painting my mother with her symbolic plants, it was an act of unofficial canonization. Veneration of personal saints, replete with gold leaf halos." --Abstract
*Keywords: figurative, portrait, iconography, Realism, commitment, meaningful existence |
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Publisher:
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Savannah, Georgia : Savannah College of Art and Design (eLearning)
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Date:
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2020-05
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Format:
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PDF (50 pages, color illustrations, portraits)
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