[To what extent did David Hockney and Chuck Close adapt tradtional and digital processes in their Fine Arts practice?]

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Abstract

Digital cameras are quickly replacing customary film cameras for the mean photographer. With a digital camera it is possible to capture, store and transfer more photographs than ever before. While it is simple to acquire digital photographs, new techniques need to be developed in order to organize, share, and generally interact with large collections of digital photographs.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION4

Background of the study4

Problem Statement5

Research Aims and Objectives6

Significance of the Study6

Rationale/ Nature of the study6

Hypothesis/Research Question7

CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW9

Theoretical framework9

CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY19

CHAPTER 4: DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS25

CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSION27

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Chapter 1 Introduction

Background of the study

This dissertation seeks to investigate the art of David Hockney art collages and Chuck Close Fine Arts. A collage is a composite of a several different media elements combined to form an artistic creation. The media elements used in a collage vary by artistic preference and the message the collage is meant to convey. Avery popular media to use is images or photographs. For the purposes of this proposal, Referring to a collage, and photo collage interchangeably the media elements in a collage are unique medium, in that it can convey an overall sense of the artist's intent, and/or several messages within a single two-dimensional picture. In this sense, the photo collage is able to convey an overall sense of the photographs in a collection (or a subset of that collection). The photo elements in a collage present a sampling over all the elements in all of the photographs in the collection. If the sampling is performed in an intelligent manner, that sampling in turn can represent a summary of the photographs in the collection. In other words, we can say that a collage provides an importance sampling of the set of photographs. In such a sampling scheme, photos are taken based on their perceived importance relative to other photographs in the collection. In the simplest case, this importance sampling can be a human choosing their favorite photos.

Problem Statement

For a large collection of photographs and their associated labels, it is useful to keep track of the images through a database.

Research Aims and Objectives

We may want to restrict the sampling to only pick from photographs that have specific properties. In this way we further reduce the size of the collection and give a topic to the resulting collage.

Significance of the Study

It is my thesis that a system which produces collages with the above mentioned ...