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Watercolour techniques – transparency, layering, bleeding, blurring, fluidity, pigment control.

Distortion of memory – fading, fragmentation, erasure, subjective recall, dreamlike imagery.

Physical connection – hands, touch, gestures, closeness, emotional intimacy.

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Possible Categories for Literature Review

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Possible Categories for Literature Review

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1. Memory and Distortion in Art (Thematic)

2. Watercolour as a Medium of Ephemerality (Technique/Process)

3. Touch and Physical Connection in Painting (Thematic/Visual Strategy)

4. Strategies of Blurring, Layering, and Dissolving (Visual Strategy/Interpretation)

5. Critical Gaps and Contemporary Context

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Introduction (150 words) – introduce question, why it matters, outline categories.

Body (700 words) –

Section 1: Memory and distortion in art.

Section 2: Watercolour as a medium of ephemerality.

Section 3: Physical connection and intimacy in painting.

Section 4: Visual strategies (blurring/layering/dissolving).

Conclusion (150 words) – summarise insights, identify the “critical gap” (why your practice matters).

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Art–Science Multidisciplinary Collaborations to Address the Scientific Challenges Posed by COVID-19

·       Explores art–science collaboration during COVID-19 where artworks inspired new scientific research.

·       Showed that art can spark innovation in vaccines, ecology, and public health.

·       Demonstrates how creative processes engage memory, emotion, and participation.

·       Useful for your work because it shows how art connects society, science, and lived experience in times of crisis.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07853890.2022.2123557.

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Aby Warburg’s History of Art: Collective Memory and the Social Mediation of Images

·       Examines Warburg’s view of art as a repository of collective memory.

·       Introduces concepts like pathos formulas and the Mnemosyne Atlas mapping visual memory.

·       Warns that mass images can erode cultural memory.

·       Relevant to your project as it shows how art mediates cultural transmission and memory preservation.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/20024391?seq=1.

Presence Through Absence: Thresholds and Mimesis in Painting

·       Analyses how artworks create meaning through what is absent or unseen.

·       Introduces “thresholds” – points where viewers fill gaps with imagination.

·       Shows that absence produces presence and engages memory.

·       Useful for connecting blur, incompleteness, and memory distortion in painting.

https://doi.org/10.1525/rep.2015.130.1.1

Contemporary Art and Memory: Images of Recollection and Remembrance

·       Surveys how contemporary artists address memory, archives, trauma, and forgetting.

·       Shows art’s role in both preserving and questioning memory.

·       Notes memory’s inherent slipperiness and distortion.

·       Directly relevant to framing your work as part of the contemporary memory-art discourse.

https://www.scribd.com/document/501850157/Contemporary-Art-and-Memory-Joan-Gibbons.

Social Touch Deprivation During COVID-19

·       Studied lockdown’s impact on mental health and craving for touch.

·       Found lack of intimate touch linked to loneliness and anxiety.

·       Touch deprivation heightened longing for closeness.

·       Supports your theme of physical connection and touch as essential for wellbeing.

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsos.210287.

Touch and Narrative in Art and History Museums

·       Argues touch enriches museum narratives beyond vision.

·       Handling replicas or multisensory displays strengthens memory retention.

·       Improves accessibility for visually impaired visitors.

·       Useful for showing how touch shapes memory and storytelling in art contexts.

http://136.175.10.10/ebook/pdf/The_Multisensory_Museum.pdf#page=88.

The Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses

·       Introduces haptic visuality – images that feel tactile.

·       Focuses on intercultural cinema and diasporic memory.

·       Shows how sensory cues transmit cultural identity and embodied memory.

·       Supports your use of watercolour’s sensory and bodily resonance to evoke memory.

https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/The_Skin_of_the_Film/jfQjJc2mqqgC?hl=en&gbpv=1

“Safe is a Wonderful Feeling”: Atmospheres of Surveillance and Contemporary Art

·       Explores art engaging with surveillance atmospheres.

·       Shows how artworks recreate unease, safety, or paranoia under constant watch.

·       Surveillance alters identity and social memory.

·       Relevant to your project as it links atmosphere, absence, and memory through art.

https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society/article/view/12756.

Memory, Forgetting, and the Archive in Contemporary Art

·       Examines artists’ use of archives as sites of memory and forgetting.

·       Shows how gaps, omissions, and erasures are central to memory work.

·       Highlights artists as archivists and anti-archivists.

·       Useful for discussing memory distortion, absence, and archival practice in art.

https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/156351/IP_THESIS_Full_draft_FINAL_compressed.pdf?sequence=1.

Art and the Ephemeral in Contemporary Culture

·       Focuses on art designed to be temporary or transient.

·       Ephemeral art resists commodification and emphasizes experience.

·       The memory of the artwork becomes its legacy.

·       Perfectly supports your watercolour ephemerality and fragility theme.

https://books.google.com.au/books?hl=en&lr=&id=pGqgEAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA310&dq=ephemerality+water+colour&ots=mdyNSnZmzq&sig=lBIIGgbglQ9cF7bedNDT2gAleeU&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=ephemerality%20water%20colour&f=false.

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Chosen question: Q1: How can watercolour techniques in painting visually represent the distortion of memory, while emphasising physical connection?

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Memory Distortion: How Minds, Brains, and Societies Reconstruct the Past

·       Shows memory is reconstructive and prone to distortion.

·       Covers false memories, suggestibility, and cultural memory shaping.

·       Highlights memory as interpretation rather than literal record.

·       Provides the cognitive science grounding for your argument on distorted memory.

https://books.google.com.au/books?hl=en&lr=&id=P5fTQ2vYkrgC&oi=fnd&pg=PA346&dq=art+memory+and+distortion&ots=P0os-WbCcb&sig=HzIBaDL1kWQNsHm2X_qWFzAzoRA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=art%20memory%20and%20distortion&f=false.

Memory, Art and the Shaping of Identity

·       Examines art as a vessel for personal and collective identity.

·       Creating or engaging with art surfaces memories that shape selfhood.

·       Notes art’s therapeutic and communal role.

·       Supports your work by linking memory to identity formation through art.

https://esmed.org/MRA/mra/article/view/2204.

Memory and Cultural Identity in Russian Contemporary Art

·       Analyses how post-Soviet art negotiates memory and identity.

·       Artists revisit Soviet legacies, trauma, and repressed histories.

·       Memory in art becomes a tool for cultural resistance and truth-telling.

·       Relevant for showing how art shapes collective identity through memory politics.

https://open.mgimo.ru/bitstream/123456789/4825/1/sravpol_14_3_4_9.pdf.

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10-15 relevant, credible sources.

Read through all sources carefully.

Take notes and summarise each source in your own words.

Identify themes, debates, or patterns in the literature.

Organise into categories using one clear structure:

Debate (different scholarly positions)

Interpretation (different readings of the same idea/work)

History (development of idea/technique over time)

Definition (how critics define or frame the concept)

Do not review sources one by one – group and synthesise.

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Google Scholar was a great resource, I could use buzz words and important topics to research and find articles relevant to my ideas and topics.

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1. Memory as Reconstruction and Distortion

Memory Distortion: How Minds, Brains, and Societies Reconstruct the Past (Schacter & Coyle 1997)

Aby Warburg’s History of Art: Collective Memory and the Social Mediation of Images (Forster 1976)

Memory, Forgetting, and the Archive in Contemporary Art (Pessin 2019)

2. Presence, Absence, and Gaps

Presence through Absence: Thresholds and Mimesis in Art and Memory (Fricke 2015)

Safe is a Wonderful Feeling: Atmospheres of Surveillance and Contemporary Art (McGrath 2012)

Contemporary Art and Memory: Images of Recollection and Remembrance (Gibbons 2007)

3. Ephemerality and Fragility

Art and the Ephemeral in Contemporary Culture (Ross 2022)

4. Touch, Connection, and Embodiment

Social Touch Deprivation during COVID-19 (Kirsh, Von Mohr & Fotopoulou 2021)

Touch and Narrative in Art and History Museums (Levent & McRainey 2014)

The Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses (Marks 2000)

5. Art, Identity, and Politics

Memory, Art and the Shaping of Identity (Shapiro 2021)

Memory and Cultural Identity in Russian Contemporary Art (Comparative Politics Journal 2018)

Art-Science Multidisciplinary Collaborations to Address the Scientific Challenges Posed by COVID-19 (De La Funte 2022)

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I took the time here to not only review the work my self to make sure I hit all my important point thoroughly, but used Grammarly to explore my grammar and spelling.

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