Perspective

Date of Award

2011

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Humanities

First Advisor

Anderson, Kim

Keywords

Painting, Still Life, Subjectivity

Area of Concentration

Art

Abstract

My still life paintings act as a metaphor for the way mankind relates to reality, by containing and distorting it. The glass jars in these paintings obscure the view of their surrounding objects, representing the way we alter reality through the lens of perspective, which I use in terms of a mental view rather than a spatial relationship. This thesis draws on Normon Bryson�s theories in Looking at the Overlooked, as well as the practices of artists Audrey Flack and Janet Fish to support my attempt at illustrating the subjectivity in how we view the world. My goal is to document our culture�s sensitivity to individual perspective, as well as the analytic trend in art towards this distortion.

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