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A Critical Analysis of Twenty Paintings by Western European Artists from the Anthony Denney Collection c.1950-1965 (open access)

A Critical Analysis of Twenty Paintings by Western European Artists from the Anthony Denney Collection c.1950-1965

This study is concerned with an analysis of twenty paintings by Western European artists from the thirty-five-item segment of the Anthony Denney Collection on permanent loan to the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. The paintings were considered separately in a two phase visual and verbal analysis accompanied by visual diagrams. Phase one described the primary visual qualities of each painting through examination of the art elements and principles. Phase two was a verbal description of each painting. The purpose of this investigation is to provide an analysis format suitable for abstract and non-objective works of art.
Date: May 1972
Creator: Brumbach, Mary Alice
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Landscapes of S. Gertrude Schell (1891-1970) (open access)

A Study of the Landscapes of S. Gertrude Schell (1891-1970)

The topographical landscapes of Miss Schell represent diversity in subject matter and media that includes oil, watercolor, and lithograph pencil scenes of Canada, New England, and Pennsylvania. Documentation used in the research included interviews and correspondence with her friends and students; photographs and slides of her paintings and drawings; exhibition lists of her works; and writings of her art ideals. This data formed five chapters of the thesis. The Introduction is a research overview; the second is her biography; the third analyzes three landscapes; the fourth compares her landscapes with eight contemporaries; and, the fifth states a conclusion of her importance as an art educator who transmitted Robert Henri's philosophies. A catalogue also is included,
Date: May 1975
Creator: Hardy, Diane Elizabeth
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Needs Survey of Interior Designers in the South Texas Area with Implications for Curriculum Revision of the Interior Design Program of the Department of Home Economics at Southwest Texas State University (open access)

A Needs Survey of Interior Designers in the South Texas Area with Implications for Curriculum Revision of the Interior Design Program of the Department of Home Economics at Southwest Texas State University

The problem of this study was to compare the expectations of the interior design profession regarding entry level requirements of new graduates of Southwest Texas State University and the present interior design curriculum at Southwest Texas State University. Questionnaires seeking information regarding skills and knowledge thought necessary for graduating interior design students were sent to professional interior designers in the South Texas area. Simple descriptive statistics were used to analyze the responses. The survey of the interior designers practicing in the South Texas areas conducted in this needs assessment of the Interior Design program at Southwest Texas State University supports giving consideration to the development of new courses or content revision of existing interior design courses offered at Southwest Texas State University.
Date: May 1981
Creator: Laman, Jene T.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Student Interior Design Laboratory Manual for Perspective Drawing 134 (open access)

A Student Interior Design Laboratory Manual for Perspective Drawing 134

This paper is to present a student interior design laboratory manual for Perspective Drawing 134. A mechanical and freehand approach to the grid method of perspective is used. Chapter I reviews the significance of the problem, definitions of terms of perspective, data sources and method of procedure. Chanter II explains a brief overview of perspective from primitive man to its present use in interior design. Chapter III reviews the general principles of perspective. Chapter IV presents the grid method to one-point and two-point perspective, both mechanical and freehand approaches. Included are step by step illustrations and explanations of the method. Chapter V summarizes the intent of this study.
Date: May 1977
Creator: Farias, Anna Laura
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Use of Fantasy by European Artists from 1250 to 1650 A.D. (open access)

The Use of Fantasy by European Artists from 1250 to 1650 A.D.

The use of fantasy by the artists of the period 1250-1650 A.D. will be discussed under five categories. 1. Fantasy was used by artists in religious paintings, which served as a visual book to be viewed by the people. The artist used fantasy to show or illustrate events or miracles which could not be logically explained. 2. Fantasy was used by the artists to portray Greek and Roman mythological subjects and events. 3. Fantasy was used by the artists to present allegorical figures and ideas. 4. Fantasy was used to illustrated dreams or visions. 5. Finally, fantasy was used to create and present all kinds of fantastic creatures and monsters of the subconscious or dream world.
Date: May 1964
Creator: Polk, Annabell
System: The UNT Digital Library
Existential Influences on the Use of Space by a Contemporary Painter (open access)

Existential Influences on the Use of Space by a Contemporary Painter

The aim of this study is to seek to determine the philosophic grounds which prompt this painter in particular to incorporate both two- and three-dimensional space within each painting.
Date: May 1968
Creator: Carlman, Sandra Marcom
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Technique for Developing Interior Color Schemes Based on the Additive and Subtractive Principles of Color-mixing (open access)

A Technique for Developing Interior Color Schemes Based on the Additive and Subtractive Principles of Color-mixing

As its objective this study develops a modus operandi for the interior designer who must understand and work with both additively and subtractively mixed colors in constructing interior color schemes.
Date: May 1969
Creator: McDonnell, Michael L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Investigation of Line and Plane Relationships in Two Concepts of Painting (open access)

An Investigation of Line and Plane Relationships in Two Concepts of Painting

The problem of this investigation is the combining of the spatial concepts of Paul Cezanne and the Analytical Cubists in a single painting.
Date: May 1971
Creator: Reed, Emil Patrick
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Investigation of the Use of Acrylic Polymer Paints in Printing Photographic Silk Screen Images (open access)

An Investigation of the Use of Acrylic Polymer Paints in Printing Photographic Silk Screen Images

This study investigates the adaptability of plastic paints to photographic silk screen materials and methods. The problem was to experiment with and further develop another technique for the artist, the silk screening of photographic images directly onto the painting surface with acrylic polymer paint.
Date: May 1972
Creator: Blue, Monte L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ultrastructured Elements of the Microcosm as a Stimulus for Painting (open access)

Ultrastructured Elements of the Microcosm as a Stimulus for Painting

This paper is to present a study of ultrastructured elements of the microcosm as a stimulus for painting.
Date: May 1973
Creator: McCarter, Samuel Charles
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aesthetics in the Popular Culture (open access)

Aesthetics in the Popular Culture

The purpose of this thesis is to consider three opposing statements regarding aesthetics in our popular culture. The first statement is that the youth of this age are demolishing the old standards of aesthetic taste and are creating a nonaesthetic; the second statement is that the youth are enlarging the vision and scope of the accepted standard of aesthetic and changing its direction; the thrid statement is that the creations of the youth in our popular culture of today are neither new nor nonaesthetic, but merely a continuation of aesthetics as they are accepted. One statement will be chosen as the most valid of the three.
Date: May 1968
Creator: Holland, Barbara
System: The UNT Digital Library