Degree Name
MFA (Master of Fine Arts)
Program
Art
Date of Award
8-2015
Committee Chair or Co-Chairs
Mira Gerard
Committee Members
Vanessa Mayoraz, Scott M. Kotterbay
Abstract
This supporting document for the thesis exhibition entitled “Veils: Truth in Translation” will discuss Block’s exploration of painting during her time at East Tennessee State University. The supporting document also provides the historical background and influences which have contributed to Block's overall process and techniques. These influences include the Abstract Expressionists, Carl Jung, Ferdinand de Saussure, John Dewey, Theodor Adorno, Joan Mitchell and Gerhard Richter. In the supporting document Block probes the idea that non-objective painting is more than a language confined by linguistic elements of sign, signifier, and signified, but is a process of thinking, which is communicated on a higher level of perception than verbal speech or visual symbolism. Block will discuss how she translates experiences from the metaphysical realm of feeling and thought to the physical reality of paint and surface which communicates the experience to the viewer.
Document Type
Thesis - unrestricted
Recommended Citation
Block, Katherine M., "Veils: Truth in Translation" (2015). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 2540. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2540
Copyright
Copyright by the authors.