As It Is: The Proceedings of The Representational Art Conference 2015 - Paperback

by Selected Conference Presenters (Author)

The Representational Art Conference 2015 was held in Ventura California. Visitors to the event enjoyed demonstrations of painting, drawing and sculpture by master artists from around the world, and heard inspiring presentations about a broad variety of topics by leading figures in the revival of representational art. The conference included off site trips in convoys of buses that carried enthusiastic members of the TRAC community to five gallery exhibits. This volume contains a record of many of the papers and speeches that were presented at the conference.

CONTENTS

Preface
Michael J. Pearce PhD MFA

Jamie Wyeth: Loves and Obsessions

Elliot Bostwick Davis, PhD

What is Fine Art and Why Realism?
Frederick C. Ross, MA

Representational Art and Truth: A Study from the perspective of Theological Aesthetics
Sheng Yu Peng, PhD

Beauty across cultures: Male Beauty in Chinese and Western representational art. (From the late nineteenth-century to the present)
Aihua Zhou Pearce, MFA

The Training and Use of Visual Memory For Representational Landscape Painters
Deborah Paris, JD, BFA

Selected Works of Contemporary Representational Chinese Figurative Ink Painters
Nan Liu, PhD

Female Heroes: A Survey of Warrior Women in Painting and Sculpture
Felice House, MFA, MS Lynette House, MS

Visita Interiora Terrae: Dino Valls Painting The Psyche
Lucio Giuliodori, PhD

The Representational Option: Un-Mere Realism and the Digital Age
Peter Frank, MA

From Roman "Virtus" to Contemporary Times: the Heroic Nude as a Representational Male Prototype
Jorge Egea, PhD

Representational Painting and Consciousness
William Oberst, PhD, MFA

From Self-Portrait to Selfie: Representational Painting in the Digital Age
John Devane BA (HONS) MA RCA

Meaning and Purpose: Morality and Politics in 21st Century Representational Art
Anne Emerson Hall

Do Both Genders Share the Same Ideologies and Aesthetics in Art, or Have Women Been TOLD Throughout History What is Legitimate?
Lori Escalera, BA

The Role of Intuitive Perceptions in and of Art
Virgil Elliott

The Bicameral Brain and the Primacy of Perception
Brian Curtis, MFA

Allegorical Still Life Painting: More than Just Objects
David Cunningham, MFA

Representational Art Can Reveal Unique Climate Change Solutions: Art in Service to the Environment
Robert Chianese, PhD

Max Ginsberg: An analysis of aesthetics, morality and significance in recent works.
Suzy Hart

Drawing Is Thinking
Domenic Cretara, MFA

The Spaces Between-Thoughts on the Nature of Composition
Archer Dougherty, BFA