Painting's Identity Problem: A Coming of Age Story

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School of Arts, Design and Architecture | Master's thesis
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2012

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Department of Art
Taiteen laitos

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Master's Degree Programme in Visual Culture
Visuaalisen kulttuurin maisteriohjelma

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en

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61

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This thesis is a self- exploration to find my new artistic language and identity. To gain this new understanding I engage in a dialogue with my future Painting, Untitled. Untitled has come to me for help to find its identity and through writing and a physical piece of artwork, Untitled is born. We search together for our new identities and processes by looking at four other artists: Franz West, Angela De La Cruz, Lee Bontecou and Yves Klein. We try to understand our new language within three-dimensional Installational Painting by learning from art critics such as; Donald Judd and Lucy Lippard. At the end of our journey together it becomes more clear on what Untitled wants to say to the world and to help ground these ideas we look at W.J.T Mitchell, James Elkins and other’s. After Untitled’s birth I hope to better understand myself as an artist, how to work within Painting three-dimensionally and how this type of artwork has come to be in today’s world.

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Euro, Pia

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Ryynänen, Max

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Painting, Sculpture, Three Dimensional, Installation, Empathy, Identity

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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:aalto-201206102264

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