CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2018
| Author | Pantic, Aleksandar Ljubisa |
|---|---|
| Title | Creative Practice of Mosaic Art, The Heritage Within |
| Summary | The study is formed as multidisciplinary, theoretical, academic discussion about mosaic art and its` referent creative practice made from trilateral perspective. This concerns the problematics of practice of artistic creation, transfer of knowledge and, cultural and historical interpretations and evaluations of mosaic art equally. The purpose of the study is to offer the proposal for understanding and interpretation of heritage of the creative practice of mosaic art, from the standpoint of present-day mosaic creation practitioners. While two main goals of study are: • To examine and to reconcile the understandings of the heritage of mosaic art and heritage of mosaic creation practice in contexts of visual art studies, cultural heritage studies and art education. • To propose a model of heritage of mosaic creation practice, taken from the perspective of mosaic creators by realizing of how the heritage of mosaic art, and heritage of mosaic art creation practice are related to contemporary mosaic design and contemporary mosaic creation practice. Main results brought by this study are: First, the study itself is the proposal of the model of understanding and interpretation of heritage of the creative practice of mosaic art taken from the standpoint of present-day mosaic creation practitioners. Second, there are three critical Insights about phenomenology of mosaic art and phenomenology of mosaic creation practice summarized by the study, these are: • Mosaic artists and artisans find that the critical part of mosaic art heritage is the body of knowledge and experiences related to the mosaics creation. This knowledge is represented and embodied as the system of mosaic design, while the creative experience of each mosaic maker is individualized and unique. Both, the body of knowledge and the body of experience are mutually interconnected and culturally and historically grounded. • The existence, historical persistence, active use, and specific character of the mosaic design system combined with creative experience, allows novel artistic solutions to be created within the bounders of formal aesthetical and technical properties of the mosaic art-form. This setup defines the mosaic as distinct traditional visual art practice and as distinct visual art-discipline equally. &#x 2022; Tran sfer of the knowledge and experience of mosaic creation practice between individuals, groups, communities, and generations, makes guarantee of existence, persistence, and continuity in using of mosaic creation practice in human civilization across time, space and cultures. Concerning the methodology, the conducted research was based on, on researcher`s extensive artist-professional experience in creating mosaic artworks and in teaching mosaic art to the students as well as on theoretical and practical examination and analysis of sources and data relevant to study subject, their mutual interrelations, and their relations to their referent socio-cultural and historical contexts. Study has its meant for being used as guidelines or as assessment to help scholars, researchers, educators and activists, in designing various educational forms and programs for teaching mosaic art, as well as in developing various programs and projects dedicated to the heritage of creative practices of visual arts in general. |
| Supervisor | prof. Jaritz Gerhard and prof. Laszlovszky Jozsef |
| Department | Medieval Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2018/pantic_aleksandar.pdf |
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