"The Constricted Landscape"

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0><script> (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga'); ga('create', 'UA-47423994-1', 'fortunecity.ws'); ga('send', 'pageview'); </script> <center> <br> <div> <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="http://ad.broadcaststation.net/ads/show_ad.php?width=728&height=90"></script> </div> </center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=160 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id38.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="In The Dishman Art Gallery"><U><I>THE INSTALLATION</I></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <I>These are the individual paintings in the order they were created.</I></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id112.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Grassland"><U><I>Grassland</I></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id113.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Marsh I"><U><I>Marsh I</I></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id114.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Seashore"><U><I>Seashore</I></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id115.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Boulders"><U><I>Boulders</I></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id116.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Meadow"><U><I>Meadow</I></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id117.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Grand Canyon I"><U><I>Grand Canyon I</I></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id118.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Rocky Mountain"><U><I>Rocky Mountain</I></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id119.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Desert"><U><I>Desert</I></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id120.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Grand Canyon II"><U><I>Grand Canyon II</I></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id121.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Marsh II"><U><I>Marsh II</I></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id122.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Forest I"><U><I>Forest I</I></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id123.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Forest II"><U><I>Forest II</I></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id124.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Watercolor Study I"><U><I>WC Study 1</I></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id125.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Watercolor Study II"><U><I>WC Study 2</I></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id126.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Watercolor Study III"><U><I>WC Study 3</I></U></A></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <B>www.darrencrull.com</B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman" >     |     </FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Times New Roman" ><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="www.darrencrull.com"><U>home</U></A></FONT></div> <div> <A HREF="id28.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Biography"><U>Biography</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id30.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact"><U>Contact</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id33.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Gallery"><U>Gallery</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id140.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Figure Drawings"><U>Figure Drawings</U></A>   |   <B>"The Constricted Landscape"</B></div> <div> "The Constricted Landscape"</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> For the degree</div> <div> Bachelor of Fine Arts - Lamar University</div> <div> You can read the entire Thesis here: <A HREF="id37.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Thesis"><U> <img src="HTMLobj-766/aniGif.gif" border="0" align="bottom" width="60" height="60">  </U></A></div> <bR> <div> “The Constricted Landscape”</div> <div> <I>Thesis Abstract</I></div> <div> The landscape is something that is all around us and has evolved over billions of years.  Mankind once held a deep respect for the land.  Unfortunately, we have evolved into a highly industrialized and urbanized civilization.  The exploitation of the land for our perceived best interests reveals our lack of respect for it.  As civilization expands, we push further out into the countryside. Our cities spread and the land is destroyed as subdivisions rise to accommodate the increasing population.  This leads to a constricted landscape.  Historically, landscape painting is a documentation of a vast, natural beauty.  In this thesis, I want to represent the beauty of the landscape as being diminished.</div> <div> I have created landscape paintings on thin, vertical panels to compress the view and then further constricted the scenes by painting a field of thick paint that symbolizes the invasion of civilization on nature.  I also added tar, sand, and rust in some cases to create texture and to address the variety of ways mankind tarnishes nature.  The viewer should never feel comfortable looking at these paintings but should feel as though the large view has been “cut-off' on either side. It should seem as though the landscape is constricted by a force that is unidentifiable, but not natural.  This thesis successfully addresses the idea of the negative impact of civilization on the natural world, through the metaphor of a constricted landscape.</div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>