Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA
Date of Award
5-2009
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
Art
First Advisor
Richard Hyslin
Second Advisor
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Third Advisor
Dr. Philip Field
Abstract
The painting, Edge of Existence best describes my surreal world at its current state. The idea started with the crisis of global warming. I want to express the peril of the creatures that are on the frontier of the global warming effect. The idea for the structure of the painting came from a Magritte painting called, The Domain of Arnheim. He has transformed an undeniably grand impression of a moonlit mountain landscape by means of a mental technique related to that of Poe and his imaginary friend Ellison, who described a magnificent, complicated, and weird landscape in which the natural phenomena have been retouched by the spiritual intervention of superior beings. I chose the number three in the glacier mountain to represent the three wise brings that are in deep thought of a solution to the immediate global warming problem as one's beak starts to melt.
Granting Institution
University of Texas-Pan American
Comments
Copyright 2009 Mack Liao. All Rights Reserved.
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