Thesis
Music, science, but mainly formalism
Washington State University
Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Washington State University
2011
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/102764
Abstract
With a focus on how formal elements create non-representational landscapes, informed by the scientific ideas of microcosm and macrocosm, I use color, shape, form, texture and line to promote visual compositions that relay a sense of the musical and provide a realm within the spiritual. Color fields present a bass line, or rhythm, while texture and line work add the melody and bits of the staccato. There are vibrations that occur between colors, there are tensions that form between different types of surfaces and there are harmonies that unfold when moving your eye from line into shape back into line. I strive for visual compositions that evoke sound and have a pulse of life. The commanding ability of color, shape and form, texture, and line is seen within a large and small scale. There is a push and pull between the gigantic and the tiny; new visual experiences occur depending on the frame of the viewer's perspective. Standing back, being pulled in, noticing the ripe amoeba-like movement or colony growth on the surface of the piece, and then stepping back again to engage with and explore how these formal elements create compositions that resonate with a living pulse and pursue the complex ideals of the joyous and the musical.
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Details
- Title
- Music, science, but mainly formalism
- Creators
- Molly Jean Wicks
- Contributors
- Chris Watts (Degree Supervisor)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Fine Arts, Department of
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University; [Pullman, Washington] :
- Identifiers
- 99900524862501842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis