Re-conceptualising ornamentation within a fine art painting practice

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2004
Authors
Sutcliffe, Pearl
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Jervis, Ian
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Thesis
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Master of Arts in Art and Design
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Auckland University of Technology
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This thesis project explores the artistic potential for ornamentation by re-conceptualising and re contextualising it through a fine art painting practice. It seeks to place ornamentation as a valid, viable and contemporary subject and critiques the historical debasement of ornamentation within progressive fine art contexts, in particular the developmental history of western aesthetics. A practice-based research approach is taken using the medium of paint.

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Ornamentation , Floral pattern
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