Construction a Parallel World Exploring the Visual Impact of Gregory Scott’s Multi- Media Art

Georgina McMahon
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2014
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland and England
Period: 20th and 21st Century

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This dissertation aims to examine the perceptions and emotional responses of the viewer with regards to the media of photography and painting when they are combined in a single artwork. The photographer Gregory Scott is the focus of the discussion due to his interest in the idea of ‘painting versus photography’ and due to the fact that his own artwork involves the collaboration of both of these media. The core theory follows that photography is subconsciously understood to represent what is real, ‘fact,’ while painting represents what is unreal, ‘fiction’. It is the combination of fact and fiction, or of photography and painting, that allows the artist to create a parallel world enabling him to explore universal emotions and questions of ‘what if’, a hypothetical applied to a reality, or, fiction applied to fact.

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Construction a Parallel World Exploring the Visual Impact of Gregory Scott’s Multi- Media Art