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Gerda Fromel Toward the Language of Abstraction

Valerie Abbey
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2020
BA

Subject: Sculpture
Country: Czechoslovakia, Ireland
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

This thesis posits the argument that Gerda Fromel was a sculptor working in Ireland at a time interest in modern abstract sculpture was growing in the country. It looks at her life and works through a phenomenological and a psychological lens. She emerges as a modernist, rooted in a European artistic sensibility with the ability to assimilate and intuit influences. This combined with her fastidious craftsmanship and creative eminence makes her an artist of Irish and European signifiance.As she moves into abstraction, noted are the infuences, Morris Graves, Giacometti, Brancusi and Barbara Hepworth. She was part of a dynamic artistic milieu in Ireland and counted as friends many significant artists and it can be exrapolated from this that discussion of influences were inevitable. Male and Female criticism of Fromel’s work is also discussed.

Progress through Press, British Art Periodicals of the Nineteenth Century

Rosalind Abbot
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2012
BA

Subject: Painting and Illustration
Country: England, France and Europe
Period: 19th Century

10,000 words

‘The movements of the Body reveal the movements of the Soul’ (Leon Baptista Alberti)

Chloe Aboud
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2019
BA

Subject: Painting, Tapestry, Sculpture
Country: France, Italy and Belgium
Period: 14th, 15th & 16th centuries

10,000 words

The Influence of Bohemianism on the Life and Work of Edvard Munch

Eden Abrahams
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2020
BA

Subject: Painting, Prints
Country: Norway
Period: 19th-20th centuries

10,000 words

My dissertation explores Edvard Munch’s exposure to Bohemianism. He made contact with the Bohemian group, Kristiania Boheme, at an early stage in his career and was infleunced by their ideas and lifestyle. Munch owes the turn in his career, to paint from his own life experiences, to the influence of the Bohemians, especially Hans Jaeger. This influence had a long lasting effect on Munch’s artistic style/ He was associated with other Bohemian groups and artists throughout his life and was familiar with all of their views. He accepted some and rejected others. He especially rejected the Bohemian ideal of “free love,’ which stood for women’s sexual liberation and freedom for all to enjoy sex outside of marriage. His acquaintances with advocates of free love, fellow misogynists and Bohemian women, shaped his views on women and love.

Giuliano da Sangallo’s plan of a palace for the King of Naples : A Discussion

Duncan Alexander
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1994
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Italy
Period: 15th Century

10,000 words

Magnum Style: A case study examining the rhetoric of Magnum photography and its oscillating position between photojournalism and fine art

Sarah Allen
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2011
BA

Subject: Photography and Photojournalism
Country: Africa, Australia, Britain, France, Italy and Spain
Period: 20th and 21st Century

10,000 words

Cindy Sherman. Appropriating the Appropriation of Appropriations

Orla Ambrose
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1995
BA

Subject: Film and Mixed Media
Country: America
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

Uniting Rodin, Ray and Warhol in their Depiction of Lips and Lips in Action

Claire Majella Anderson
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2005
BA

Subject: Sculpture, Photography and Print
Country: France and America
Period: 19th and 20th Century

10,000 words

Two Religious Murals Executed by Sean Keating P.R.H.A.

Neil Ardiff
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1995
BA

Subject: Mural painting
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

Art wins when the devil is concerned: Finding the inspiration for Giotto, Bosch and Michelangelo’s devil in their Last Judgement

Matthew Armitage
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2017
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: Italy and Belgium (Flanders)
Period: 14th, 15th and 16th Century

10,000 words

Willie Doherty: An Alternative View of Northern Ireland

Julie Armstrong
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1995
BA

Subject: Photography, Video and Printed word
Country: Northern Ireland
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

Late Nineteenth Century Sketching Clubs in Ireland

Shirley Armstrong-Duffy
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1984
BA

Subject: Sketching Clubs
Country: Ireland
Period 19th Century

10,000 words

Women as Victims and Victors in Goya’s Los Desastres de la Guerra

Niamh Aspell
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2013
BA

Subject: Painting and Prints
Country: Spain
Period: 18th Century

10,000 words

J.S. Mulvany’s Kingstown Harbour architecture

Joanna Bailey
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1989
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 19th Century

10,000 words

The Domination of Men by Women in Fifteenth Century Florence

Fiona Bailey
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1999
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: Italy
Period: 15th Century

10,000 words

An Architectural History of Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital Crumlin

Roisin Barron
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2014
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

This thesis constructs an architectural history of Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin, Dublin. In 1930s Ireland, there was a recognised need for a children’s teaching hospital with specialised paediatric facilities and accommodation. This work explores how all these factors were realised. The discussion will situate the hospital in the context of contemporaneous Irish and European hospital architecture. The factors which had an impact on the design of the building will be addressed. In regard to architectural style, Crumlin Hospital displays influences of the International Style and the Amsterdam School together with emerging trends in Swedish Modernism. The tenets of function, structure and pleasing aesthetic were honoured in the construction and many new innovations were incorporated into the final stage.

Merrion Square: A Documentary and Architectural Study

Siuban Barry
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1977
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 18th and 19th Century

10,000 words

Amadeo Modigliani and his Singularity in the History of Art

Sarah Barter
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2012
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: France and Italy
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

This thesis aims ‘to discuss the position of the work of the Italian born artist Amadeo Modigliani in the history of art. ‘His formative years in Italy where he was exposed to the classical art of antiquity and also to the highly academic works of the Italian Renaissance’ will be discussed. This background gave him an understanding of the traditions of classicism. ‘His career in Paris introduced him to the Modernist movements and developments.’ ‘His work displays ‘a variety of influences and inspirations.’ His art shows ‘a love for the old, traditional, classical, but also with a desire to modernise and make his art of his time.’ His position in the history of art in Paris in the early twentieth century, ‘at a time of such upheaval and change’ will be discussed. The influence of sculpture on his work and his sculptural style will be examined as will his ability to reintrepret the classical style in a modern idiom.

An examination of the iconographic evolution of the image of Christ in Early Christian Art.

Georgina Barter
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2017
BA

Subject: Frescoes, Mosaics and Sculpture
Country: Italy and Greece
Period: Early Christian

10,000 words

This dissertation examines the iconographical evolution of the image of Christ in Early Christian art. For the purposes of this thesis, it is assumed that the typical rendering of Jesus Christ as the fair skinned adult male with long brown hair, is instantly recognizable to most people. It is an image that has not changed dramatically since the sixth century. The divinity associated with the image of Christ gives it a significant amount of religious importance especially for Christians themselves, but where did this symbolic image come from? How has it changed since its inception? It is intended in this work to examine the origins of the image of Christ and trace the iconographic evolution of his image as it is developed throughout the Early Christian period. The time frame under examination is mid 3rd century AD to mid 6th century AD.

Church of St. John the Evangelist, Sandymount

Helen Bartlett
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1991
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 19th Century

10,000 words

Portraiture in Revolutionary England (1640-1660). (Problems of identity in a cultural vacuum)

Elizabeth M. Behan
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1993
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: England
Period: 17th Century

10,000 words

Seeking the Sacred in Brutalist Architecture

Iona Belov
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2020
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Austria
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

Eakins Uncovered: The Artist, the Nude and Photography

Suzie Bennett
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2014
BA

Subject: Painting and Photography
Country: America
Period: 19th Century

10,000 words

Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens

Mary Sheila Catherine Bennett
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1981
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: England
Period: 18th and 19th Century

10,000 words

Education Theses Register —B.A.

Gerda Fromel Toward the Language of Abstraction

Progress through Press, British Art Periodicals of the Nineteenth Century

‘The movements of the Body reveal the movements of the Soul’ (Leon Baptista Alberti)

The Influence of Bohemianism on the Life and Work of Edvard Munch

Giuliano da Sangallo’s plan of a palace for the King of Naples : A Discussion

Magnum Style: A case study examining the rhetoric of Magnum photography and its oscillating position between photojournalism and fine art

Cindy Sherman. Appropriating the Appropriation of Appropriations

Uniting Rodin, Ray and Warhol in their Depiction of Lips and Lips in Action

Two Religious Murals Executed by Sean Keating P.R.H.A.

Art wins when the devil is concerned: Finding the inspiration for Giotto, Bosch and Michelangelo’s devil in their Last Judgement

Willie Doherty: An Alternative View of Northern Ireland

Late Nineteenth Century Sketching Clubs in Ireland

Women as Victims and Victors in Goya’s Los Desastres de la Guerra

J.S. Mulvany’s Kingstown Harbour architecture

The Domination of Men by Women in Fifteenth Century Florence

An Architectural History of Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital Crumlin

Merrion Square: A Documentary and Architectural Study

Amadeo Modigliani and his Singularity in the History of Art

An examination of the iconographic evolution of the image of Christ in Early Christian Art.

Church of St. John the Evangelist, Sandymount

Portraiture in Revolutionary England (1640-1660). (Problems of identity in a cultural vacuum)

Seeking the Sacred in Brutalist Architecture

Eakins Uncovered: The Artist, the Nude and Photography

Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens

Education Theses Register —
B.A.