Art & Art History ETDs

Publication Date

7-14-1977

Abstract

By painting in a representational style, I have become more aware of the way in which I relate visually to the world around me. Exploring this relationship has provided me with a physical and mental activity by which I can establish a self-identity compatible with my personality and intellectual capacities. It also gives me the means to provide worthwhile experience for many other people. I have explored these interests through a style which is traditional yet still seems to me to offer contemporary challenges. By taking attention away from the painting as art object and putting it on the world re-created within the painting, I hope to awaken in the viewer insights that I have acquired in carefully exploring the perception of object so familiar to us as to be normally taken for granted.

Language

English

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Arts

Level of Degree

Masters

Department Name

UNM Department of Art and Art History

First Committee Member (Chair)

Robert M. Ellis

Second Committee Member

Milton Bryan Howard

Third Committee Member

Illegible

Fourth Committee Member

Howard David Rodee

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