Gliubich Tomat, Matilde (2023) On Encountering the Divine in the Act of Drawing. Masters thesis, York St John University.
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Abstract
The aim of this research was to define, circumscribe, and contextualise my drawing practice and understand its “encounter with the divine” while looking for a framework that would validate those experiences.
While I noticed how most of the literature always points back to the artefact as the means to understand the method and the artist, I used drawing followed by a self-reflective journaling system to explore the processual part of the practice with regards to these spiritual experiences. Once I realised that both performativity and in-the-zoneness were providing incomplete answers, materiality presented a connection to alchemy which offered a means to reading my drawing experience.
The findings confirmed the spiritual experiences, but also indicated that among all the assessable parameters, at the conjuncture between the Artist, the Material, and the Work, there is always something elusive and ineffable.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Status: | Published |
| Subjects: | N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR |
| School/Department: | School of the Arts |
| URI: | https://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/9423 |
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