Browsing by Author "Atkinson, Kevin"

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    An investigation of the metaphoric potential of the relationship between pictorial and sculptural space
    (1994) Penfold, Denise Marcelle; Atkinson, Kevin
    The aim of this dissertation is to provide a background to the ideas and works that have informed the practical body of work. The practical body of work has developed from an intention to locate a means of articulating personal experience in visual form. The departure points for this process are thus largely idiosyncratic and personal (subjective), while the focus of the investigation is on the potential for the dialectic of pictorial/physical space to articulate metaphors that can mediate personal experience. This dialectic of pictorial/physical space can be related to one of the primary philosophical debates that underpins Western art practice and theory; viz., the relationship between art and reality, or in other terms, between culture and nature.
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    Open diary : biography/autobiography as historical context
    (1992) Greenblatt, Francine Scialom; Atkinson, Kevin
    Alberto Savinio in his travelogue and wartime diary "The departure of the Argonaut" (1918) graphically expressed reservations about his endeavour. "I write - that is, I lay out little black cadavres on the immaculate shroud of the page - but this doesn't begin to capture the magnificent innocence of sky and sea ..... "(1) How inadequate then does a painter feel in attempting to locate belief systems in a foreign medium that is slower than pictures? Words reduce the real experience of a painting to an approximation, and its absence constitutes a kind of willed barrier. Literary studies proposed that paintings are,independently of how they are interpreted. The nature of art works is in part determined by the art-theoretical context in which they are set. The forced shift in medium, therefore assists this author in questioning some of the familiar mental, visual and emotional landmarks by which thinking has been oriented over the past 20 years.
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    Painting as a response to a sense of dislocation in the South African social fabric
    (1994) Hartzenberg, Randolph Joseph; Atkinson, Kevin
    My proposal was to produce a series of paintings as a response to a sense of dislocation in the South African social fabric. The body of paintings is entitled Domestic Baggage and consists collectively of paintings on canvas and preliminary works entitled The Grids. Thematically consistent, the works and the accompanying research document emphasize the disturbed and marginalized dimensions of fragmented society. A significant frame of reference is the claustrophobic, persistent presence of increasing violence and loss of life arising from the dislocation ethos. lconographically, a strategy of allusion has been adopted, allowing for the interaction of figurative, gestural and material referents. Dependence on overtly illustrative or purely narrative modes of representation has been deferred. An extensive background essay highlights the appropriately identified specifics of the backdrop against which the series of paintings has been developed. A detailed art historical contextualization foregrounds those precedents most pertinent to the formal and conceptual processes informing the Domestic Baggage series.