Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA
Date of Award
5-2010
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
Art
First Advisor
Dr. Reynaldo Santiago
Second Advisor
Richard Hyslin
Third Advisor
Dr. Carlos Roberto De Souza
Abstract
My work is organized around the search for my direction, as a person, and as an artist, my trips, my suffering, my dreams, and my family. Through my sculpture I try to describe my own experience with life, capturing the essence of those things that bring me peace or make me suffer. My three-dimensional work is influenced by Mexican expressionism and by individual artists who also searched for ideas and feelings related to cultural identity. Artists like Diego Rivera, Mardonio Magana, Octavio Medellin, and Patrocinio Varela, artists who communicated through the use of expressionism in advancing technique and style which influenced the world art.
Granting Institution
University of Texas-Pan American
Comments
Copyright 2010 Benjamin Martinez-Alvarez. All Rights Reserved.
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