Towards a Personal Aesthetic (open access)

Towards a Personal Aesthetic

This paper discusses the author's work creating 30 ceramic vessels experimenting with the relaxation of jar forms. James Robert Salazar discusses how these jars retain their proportions and structure despite the relaxation process, and the inspirations that created a personal aesthetic evident in the works.
Date: July 1998
Creator: Salazar, James Robert
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Balance of Contradictions: Abstraction and Representation, Formalism and Symbolism (open access)

The Balance of Contradictions: Abstraction and Representation, Formalism and Symbolism

This paper discusses the concept of figurative formalism and its application in six paintings on canvas by the author. Linda Leonhart McCall explores the work of Johannes Vermeer, Edward Hopper, and Richard Diebenkorn in discussing abstraction and representation.
Date: May 1998
Creator: McCall, Linda Leonhart
System: The UNT Digital Library