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Painting Out of Context

Description: I wanted to produce a body of work related to the problem of decontextualizing objects. By challenging the object's habitual associations, I hoped to provoke a new set of relationships for the viewer. I kept a journal of personal information, dreams and events, that might later provide imagery for and insights into the work. My goal in the endeavor was to acquire concision and complexity in imagistic language, a language in which the definite and the indeterminate would coincide very simply to … more
Date: May 1987
Creator: Hansen, Elaine
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The Evolution of Symbols Generated In a Body of Work

Description: In order to discover more about the nature of my work, I conducted an investigation of the evolution of symbols generated in a body of work. For the purpose of this study the term symbol was defined as something that represents the term symbol was defined as something that represents another entity by association, resemblance, or convention, specifically, a material object or image used to represent an idea.
Date: August 1987
Creator: McKenzie, J. Michael
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An Investigation Into the Relationship Between Media and Content

Description: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between media and content in my work. I began a series of paintings in the fall of 1985 which was based on 35mm transparencies. At this point, the slides were nothing more than a visual aid, a way to augment my technical skills; my chief interest in these paintings was narrative. I was also taking a drawing class at the time, and several times I recycled a transparency I had used with a painting to create a drawing. Sometimes Both ve… more
Date: March 1987
Creator: Crouch, Ron Taylor
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Portrait of a Dog

Description: Painting of blue, green, red and orange featuring two human figures and a dog. The figure on the middle part is walking a dog while the figure on the left is nude and leaning over a bathtub. The composition on the far right is a detail view of a toilet, toothbrush and a tube of toothpaste.
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Date: 1987~
Creator: Fischl, Eric
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Repetitious Vision

Description: Painting of red, black and while vertical lines containing three rows of repeated objects.
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Date: 1987~
Creator: Bleckner, Ross
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