Date of Award

2011

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Humanities

First Advisor

Anderson, Kim

Keywords

Dolphins, Watercolor, Fragmentation

Area of Concentration

Art

Abstract

This thesis challenges stereotypes of dolphins by presenting them in a manner that is contradictory to mainstream representations of animals as graceful, joyous and free. Through experience volunteering at Mote Marine Laboratory and interning at Dolphins Plus in Key Largo, Florida, I have come to understand that stereotypes offer an incomplete idealized image of dolphins.The art for this thesis shows dolphins in a large-scale, fragmented format with an anthropomorphic gaze that confronts the viewer. The negative space delineated from the fragmentation creates a grid system of bars or windows which pushes the question, who is in captivity: the dolphin or the human? Artists who were investigated for this thesis include Robert Wyland, William Wegman, Walton Ford, and John James Audubon

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