This thesis project, called "Standing Stones: My Spiritual Markers", consists of a written document and a series of 12 paintings. Each painting depicts a specific spiritual event in my life through which God intervened to reveal to me new insights into His character, His purpose…
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Few doubt the significance of Emil Nolde among the artists in Germany now loosely called Expressionists. From 1909 until his death in 1956, he painted over fifty pictures with religious subjects. Arguably, they represent the premier accomplishment of a long and prodigious career…
For many participating in and observing the migration of African Americans from the South to the North in the middle of the twentieth century, it seemed as if the migrants were moving from the past into the future, or at least into the present. It seemed as if they were entering…
In this dissertation, I examine the life and later Orientalist painting of John Frederick Lewis (1805–1876). Though certain aspects of this artist's biography have become the stuff of legend—notably his adoption of Middle Eastern clothing and cultural habits during a ten-year pe…
As with any “absolute” music, Schubert’s Piano Sonata in A Major, D. 959 lacks any extramusical references or program. This study addresses the question of how one can reach an understanding of its “spiritual content and expression,” to quote G.W.F. Hegel’s concept of “meaning” …
Is Marie-Guillemine Benoist’s Portrait of a Black Woman (1800) an affirmational portrait of an individual? Or is it a vehicle for a racially-charged stereotype? I argue that the painting is suspended between these possibilities, largely because Benoist was trying to represent a …
My series of drawings and paintings is an exploration of the awkward moments that we often encounter in our adult lives. The figures are a depiction of the psychological reaction of characters confronting an awkward situation. In other situations, characters are used as case stu…
La presente investigación estudia la serie de once cuadros de La Pasión de Cristo del Convento de San Francisco de Lima atribuidas al artista flamenco Pedro Pablo Rubens. Este trabajo pretende generar nuevos aportes a los dos grandes vacíos que dicho objeto de estudio presenta: …
Generally speaking depictive theories attempt to explain the experience of looking at paintings and drawings, in particular they describe the process by which a viewer makes sense of a surface that has been intentionally marked in such a way as to describe some thing in the worl…