HEAR THE UNHEARD VOICES OF VISUAL ART:

The debate in contemporary visual art exhibitions focuses on the art-making process. This article aims to compare the current art-making process regarding concept development in fine arts to the concept of storytelling, as applied in narrative therapy. Several case studies done over the past three...

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Main Author: S.E. Dry
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of the Free State 2019-07-01
Series:Acta Theologica
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Online Access:https://journals.ufs.ac.za/index.php/at/article/view/3917
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description The debate in contemporary visual art exhibitions focuses on the art-making process. This article aims to compare the current art-making process regarding concept development in fine arts to the concept of storytelling, as applied in narrative therapy. Several case studies done over the past three years at Tshwane University of Technology motivated the researcher to investigate this process that brought healing to many, whilst contextualising an art concept. This narrative approach in concept development is subject to the student’s ability to understand and manipulate content, together with the facilitators’ approach to the reality. The researcher proposes the use of the narrative as a starting point to identify and develop a personal theme/concept in “tracing an untold history” of “unheard voices”, not only to add content to art-making, but also to guide art students to trace their “history and meaning of a unique outcome” and rewrite their own alternative stories.
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spelling doaj-art-851ceff7d53b48f194490e49d0422cf22025-02-11T09:47:24ZengUniversity of the Free StateActa Theologica1015-87582309-90892019-07-0127201910.38140/at.v27i2019.3917HEAR THE UNHEARD VOICES OF VISUAL ART:S.E. Dry0Tshwane University of Technology The debate in contemporary visual art exhibitions focuses on the art-making process. This article aims to compare the current art-making process regarding concept development in fine arts to the concept of storytelling, as applied in narrative therapy. Several case studies done over the past three years at Tshwane University of Technology motivated the researcher to investigate this process that brought healing to many, whilst contextualising an art concept. This narrative approach in concept development is subject to the student’s ability to understand and manipulate content, together with the facilitators’ approach to the reality. The researcher proposes the use of the narrative as a starting point to identify and develop a personal theme/concept in “tracing an untold history” of “unheard voices”, not only to add content to art-making, but also to guide art students to trace their “history and meaning of a unique outcome” and rewrite their own alternative stories. https://journals.ufs.ac.za/index.php/at/article/view/3917Narrative therapyPersonal story tellingArt concept development
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HEAR THE UNHEARD VOICES OF VISUAL ART:
Acta Theologica
Narrative therapy
Personal story telling
Art concept development
title HEAR THE UNHEARD VOICES OF VISUAL ART:
title_full HEAR THE UNHEARD VOICES OF VISUAL ART:
title_fullStr HEAR THE UNHEARD VOICES OF VISUAL ART:
title_full_unstemmed HEAR THE UNHEARD VOICES OF VISUAL ART:
title_short HEAR THE UNHEARD VOICES OF VISUAL ART:
title_sort hear the unheard voices of visual art
topic Narrative therapy
Personal story telling
Art concept development
url https://journals.ufs.ac.za/index.php/at/article/view/3917
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