I Sing the Body Electric: Drawing and Painting Active Bodies in an Active Workplace

dc.contributor.authorBanks, Charlotte Susan
dc.date.accessioned2018-06-05T04:47:08Z
dc.date.available2018-06-05T04:47:08Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractThis project explores how drawing and painting based on extended observation can render vitality. Having embedded myself in my local automotive repair workshop, I made a large number of experimental paintings and drawings. I tested how forms of figuration and abstraction varied in their ability to convey the vitality of the scene and the painter’s presence. The investigation led to a final body of paintings in which areas of figuration broke down, allowing other elements such as gesture and colour to be freed from form, and to convey energy, rhythm, noise and rotation. This particular capacity of drawing and painting means that those practices still have a place to play in the depiction of everyday workplaces—currently, largely, the province of photography and documentary filmmaking.en_AU
dc.identifier.otherb53507241
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/143903
dc.language.isoenen_AU
dc.subjectgestural paintingen_AU
dc.subjectfigural paintingen_AU
dc.subjectgenre paintingen_AU
dc.subjectvitalityen_AU
dc.subjectembedded researchen_AU
dc.subjecteverydayen_AU
dc.subjectmechanicsen_AU
dc.titleI Sing the Body Electric: Drawing and Painting Active Bodies in an Active Workplaceen_AU
dc.typeThesis (MPhil)en_AU
dcterms.valid2018en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationDepartment of Painting, College of Arts and Social Sciences, The Australian National Universityen_AU
local.contributor.authoremailsbanks@grapevine.com.auen_AU
local.contributor.supervisorOrmella, Raquel
local.contributor.supervisorcontactraquel.ormella@anu.edu.auen_AU
local.description.notesthe author deposited 5/06/18en_AU
local.identifier.doi10.25911/5d6907be92db5
local.identifier.proquestYes
local.mintdoimint
local.type.degreeMaster by research (Masters)en_AU

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