PAINTING

The traditional dichotomy in painting between Representation and Abstraction and its resolution in Contemporary painting

Abstract

Research focuses on painting at the level of its procedure and is consequently a mode of examination which seeks to study from painting rather than symbolize it in terms of external interpretative interests. Enchanting as a point of removal the notion that what is at venture for painting is the design of the 'radically new' I have used from the field of biosemiotics in order to examine creativity within formal development. In part this is to argue against the notion that painting is an exhausted observe by investigating how the 'end' is obviated when past and present are implicit to be syntheses of the work rather than as exterior determinations. The main aim and objective of the research is to examine the traditional dichotomy in painting between Representation and Abstraction and its resolution in Contemporary painting. To the scope that the thesis begins with the predominance and specificity of the work it reveals a mode of formalism. Though, through an examination into what is 'at work' in painting, into accurately what cannot be given to illustration, certain methodological givens have been brought into issue.

Table of Content

Abstractii

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION1

Definition1

Background of the research1

Problem Statement1

Aims and Objectives1

Research Question2

Theoretical Frame work2

Limitation of the Study5

Reliability5

Validity6

Ethical Concern7

CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW9

Mimesis10

CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY17

Research Design17

Data Collection Method17

Data Analysis17

CHAPTER 4: DISCUSSION19

Abstract Expressionism20

Rhetorical Approach To Criticism29

Traditional Dichotomy In Painting Between Representation And Abstraction Modernist Period29

CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSION33

REFERENCES35

BIBLIOGRAPHY37

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

Definition

According to Tolstoy, art cannot be defined as an activity which produces beauty. Beauty cannot be defined objectively, and therefore cannot be used as a criterion to define what is, or is not, art. The aim of art is not merely to produce beauty, or to provide pleasure, enjoyment, or entertainment. Art is a means of communication, and is an important means of expression of any experience, or of any aspect of the human condition.

Background of the research

At the beginning of the last quarter of the twentieth century, the idea of the avant-garde, which has provided the dynamo for a kind of 'modernist' faith in contemporary art circles, has been severely shaken. The current debate over 'modernism' and 'post-modernism' is a sure indication that something underlying the whole project of the avant-garde has faltered. In the visual arts, this tendency seems to be taking the form, both in the United States and in Europe, of a reawakened interest in painting and specifically of a renewed concern for figuration.

Problem Statement

The main aim and objective of the research is to examine the traditional dichotomy in painting between Representation and Abstraction and its resolution in Contemporary painting.

Aims and Objectives

The main aim and objective of the research is to examine the traditional dichotomy in painting between Representation and Abstraction and its resolution in Contemporary painting.

Research Question

The traditional dichotomy in painting between Representation and Abstraction was played out during the Modernist period.

Examine how these opposing modes have been resolved in Contemporary painting that is now pluralist, with a mixture of representation ...