Document Type

Thesis

Date of Degree Completion

Spring 1973

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

Fine Arts

Committee Chair

Philip Koch

Second Committee Member

Harriet Dolphin

Third Committee Member

George Stillman

Abstract

Research has proven that the impact of two-dimensional painting and drawing occurs in the first tenth of a second on viewing. All viewing thereafter is investigative. Therefore it is of utmost important that the major response be in this period. This interest in the firm, momentary presence of visual impact has precedence in Milton Avery's work as related by Hilton Kramer in his text on Milton Avery. To make the use of color as the basic mainspring of my work seemed to be the most effective way of gaining this time response. With this in mind I intended to produce paintings which interrelated pictoral representation with color schemata in a manner which seems to me to influence human response.

Comments

This thesis also includes 12 color film slides. For more information on how to access these please email ScholarWorks@cwu.edu

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