Inspiration: a functional approach to creative practice. PhD thesis in Art, Design & Media, by Gil Dekel. 9.2 Core themes (pt 2 of 2) While exploring the use of abstract shapes in the process of art making I noted that colours come next. Kandinsky (1972)...
Inspiration: a functional approach to creative practice. PhD thesis in Art, Design & Media, by Gil Dekel. 9.2 Core themes (pt 1 of 2) The core themes which I developed from my reflections on the actions that I undertook are captured by the chapters’...
Inspiration: a functional approach to creative practice. PhD thesis in Art, Design & Media, by Gil Dekel. 9.1.3 Actions3 – collective individuals This group consists of collaborative works and the making of them into the films What is Love?, A Fallen Angel,...
Inspiration: a functional approach to creative practice. PhD thesis in Art, Design & Media, by Gil Dekel. 9.1.2 Actions2 – individual in a group This group consists of the films Unfolding Hearts, Interview with authorial-Self, Explorers of the Heart, poetry...
Inspiration: a functional approach to creative practice. PhD thesis in Art, Design & Media, by Gil Dekel. 9.1.1 Actions1 – individual The first group of actions, Actions1, consists of my first two films, videos made of paper presentations, as well as the...
Inspiration: a functional approach to creative practice. PhD thesis in Art, Design & Media, by Gil Dekel. 9.1 Artistic choices All actions undertaken focused on trying to externalise inner thoughts and presence, through a dialogue between the internal image...
Inspiration: a functional approach to creative practice. PhD thesis in Art, Design & Media, by Gil Dekel. 9. A Body of Practical Actions This chapter will describe the developments in the process of my research of making artworks, interviewing artists,...
Inspiration: a functional approach to creative practice. PhD thesis in Art, Design & Media, by Gil Dekel. 8.1.7 Humour Former USA Secretary of State and Ambassador to the UN, Madeleine Albright (2003: 320) asserts that in order to begin a dialogue between...
Inspiration: a functional approach to creative practice. PhD thesis in Art, Design & Media, by Gil Dekel. 8.1.6 Data collection and analysis For this research I created short films and videos, poetry, graphic designs, installations, photography,...
Inspiration: a functional approach to creative practice. PhD thesis in Art, Design & Media, by Gil Dekel. 8.1.5 Self exploration After years of study, Kant (Lemay & Pitts, 1994: 19) came up with the conclusion that all humans have similar faculties that...
Inspiration: a functional approach to creative practice. PhD thesis in Art, Design & Media, by Gil Dekel. 8.1.4 Art practice as a research method 8.1.4.1 DevelopmentIn this PhD research I could have chosen to explore artworks that other artists had already...
Inspiration: a functional approach to creative practice. PhD thesis in Art, Design & Media, by Gil Dekel. 8.1.3 In-depth interviews Interviews can be used as a field study and a method to gaining a direct access to the artists, the primary source, as...
Inspiration: a functional approach to creative practice. PhD thesis in Art, Design & Media, by Gil Dekel. 8.1.2 Grounded theory Grounded theory is interested in the linking of events through their development, for the purpose of generating a common theme....
Inspiration: a functional approach to creative practice. PhD thesis in Art, Design & Media, by Gil Dekel. 8.1.1 Phenomenology 8.1.1.1 AgentPrior to the start of this research, in February 2006, I had two distinct modes of thought. One involved being a...
Inspiration: a functional approach to creative practice. PhD thesis in Art, Design & Media, by Gil Dekel. 8.1 Methods The following sections will detail the methods: In section Phenomenology I will discuss the theory behind the phenomenological approach,...
Inspiration: a functional approach to creative practice. PhD thesis in Art, Design & Media, by Gil Dekel. 8. Methodology My interest is in understanding the actual experiences of opening up to inspiration within my own personal practice of making art as...
Inspiration: a functional approach to creative practice. PhD thesis in Art, Design & Media, by Gil Dekel. 7.1 Summary of Literature and Intentions of the Investigation The literature cited above scans the developments in art from representing the external...
Inspiration: a functional approach to creative practice. PhD thesis in Art, Design & Media, by Gil Dekel. 7. Literature Review (pt 2 of 2) Carl Jung (1990: 72), discussing creative processes in what he coined ‘extraverted art’, uses a plant as an...
Inspiration: a functional approach to creative practice. PhD thesis in Art, Design & Media, by Gil Dekel. 7. Literature Review (pt 1 of 2) This research draws from the area of visual art studies, English literature critiques, psychology, philosophy and...
Inspiration: a functional approach to creative practice. PhD thesis in Art, Design & Media, by Gil Dekel. 6. Introduction This thesis looks at the issue of the creative process that operates in the mind and the heart of artists, which was developed...
Inspiration: a functional approach to creative practice. PhD thesis in Art, Design & Media, by Gil Dekel. 5. Abstract This thesis describes an exploration of the processes of conception of inspiration and application in art-making through making art...
Inspiration: a functional approach to creative practice. PhD thesis in Art, Design & Media, by Gil Dekel. 4. Lists (icons, diagrams, graphs, figures) List of icons used within the body text: = ‘see appendix’. = ‘a DVD disc of the film is enclosed...
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