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. 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. 2. Dedication To the one who is walking beside me for thousands of years now, my wife, and the one who reminds me why we are here, my child. I am...
01. Thesis Title Page Inspiration: a functional approach to creative practice Gil Dekel Thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirementsfor the award of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy of the University of Portsmouth May 2009[formatted for the web...
Conceptual Art Composition Typography Research skills Inspiration in art and design Abstraction in art and design The Creative Thinking Process Learning To See: concepts in photography UX and UC...
By Gil and Natalie Dekel. Below are ideas for art projects that we are planning to carry in our gallery – but the ideas are not complete. They are still general, in a proposal stage, and need some reshaping before we can actually produce them. We are sharing the ideas...
Natalie and Gil’s ‘State of The Art’ Centre Art & Wellbeing space: Meditations, Yoga, Arts, Reiki & Psychic development. Contact / Book a visit here Current: from April 2022 Art for World Peace. Free entry. You can take part ! You do not need to...
Dr. Gil Dekel “This 20- minute lecture by Dr. Gil Dekel is worth a listen. The feeling at the end is, “How awesome creativity is!” What is the artist really saying in each and every painting? Dr. Dekel tells us.” – Mary Gwyn Bowen, nurse and art...
מלאני צ’אן (Melanie Chan) ציירת בצבעי מים, בראיון עם גיל דקל. גיל דקל: את מתמחה בציורי פרחים בצבעי מים. מה את רואה בפרחים? [1] מלאני צ’אן: אני רואה את היופי של הטבע בפרחים, ואני נדהמת משלמותם ומהסימטריה שלהם. כשאני מתחילה לצייר, הראש שלי מתחיל להירגע,...
by Gil Dekel, PhD (visionary poet and Reiki teacher.) The task of the poet is to see into the experiences we undergo every moment, and attach words to emotions. Like patchwork, these wordly emotions come together to form images through which we can see the...
Artist Katherine Josten (founder/director of The Global Art Project for Peace) interviewed by Gil Dekel, PhD. Gil Dekel: You have inspired more than 130,000 participants to take part in your project since 1994; how did you do that?… Katherine Josten: I believe...
by Gil Dekel. page 138 Most men are captured in the thinking-mind, and most women are captured in the pain-body. In both cases it is a grip of the mind. 140 The present is more powerful than the past. The past (and what other people did to you in the past) cannot...
by Gil Dekel. page 97 Listen with your whole body. If you read a book, then read it with your whole body. Always be connected to your inner body, no matter what shape you see in the outer world. Experience the outer world with your inner world. Keep your attention on...
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