Title
Creating Beautiful Art: Challenging Comfort
Date of Award
8-18-2011
Document Type
Undergraduate Capstone Project
Degree Name
Master of Liberal Studies
Organizational Unit
University College, Arts and Culture Management
Disciplines
Liberal Studies
First Advisor
Judith Cassel-Mamet
Abstract
Creating Beautiful Art: Challenging Comfort investigates the notion of beauty and its relationship to art while asking what is and can be art. Throughout the work, research supports the concept of beauty elevating art even with the use of atypical, unconventional, or mundane materials. Direct attention is given to this idea by completion of a Creative Capstone Project. I incorporated aesthetics with unconventional materials in order to challenge viewing comfort, as well as added value to the existing body of knowledge concerning beauty in contemporary art. The reflective section summarizes the importance of unconventional materials creating beauty in art in order to progress itself linearly by creating and reinventing the new.
Publication Statement
Copyright is held by the author. Permanently suppressed.
Recommended Citation
Wimmer, Kyle, "Creating Beautiful Art: Challenging Comfort" (2011). University College: Arts and Culture Management Capstones. 67.
https://digitalcommons.du.edu/ucol_mals/67