%0 Thesis %A BRENNAN, LOUISE ANGELA %D 2019 %T A Painter’s Encounter with Pre-Modern Artworks as Influences for a Contemporary Studio Practice %U https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/thesis/A_Painter_s_Encounter_with_Pre-Modern_Artworks_as_Influences_for_a_Contemporary_Studio_Practice/8247530 %R 10.26180/5cfdfd6802671 %K Painting %K Art %X Written from a painter’s perspective, this thesis argues that certain pre-modern artworks exhibit characteristics that have a temporal dimension. These characteristics, often overlooked by conventional analysis, have the capacity to transmit to a contemporary art practice and are crucial for me as a maker. I draw on recent theories of temporality in art history to show how these characteristics can detach and cross to the present in a way that bears on my studio practice. Set in a subjective aesthetics, my experience of pre-modern artworks, including ancient ceramics and Quattrocento painting, involves four different levels of engagement: the contextualising of space; the sensate; the material; and the intellectual. %I Monash University