Rochester Institute of Technology RIT Scholar Works Theses 8-25-2006 Sweet! Cartoons and contemporary painting Sarah Atlee Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.rit.edu/theses Recommended Citation Atlee, Sarah, "Sweet! Cartoons and contemporary painting" (2006). Thesis. Rochester Institute of Technology. Accessed from This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by RIT Scholar Works. It has been accepted for inclusion in Theses by an authorized administrator of RIT Scholar Works. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, New York A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of The College of Imaging Arts and Sciences Fine Arts Studio Department In Candidacy for the Degree of MASTER OF FINE ARTS Sweet! Cartoons and Contemporary Painting by Sarah Atlee 2006 1 2 3 4 Abstract I am an artist, and I use cartoons. My work consists mainly of images that communicate to the viewer through recognizable forms. I also use text to help tell my stories. I often create visual elements that function in place of text or information. I use a third visual tool, a hybrid descendant of images and words: the cartoon. Cartoons, once situated at the margins of visual discourse, now have a place in the fine art world. There are comics and animated television shows created for adult audiences. There are gallery and museum shows of work influenced by cartoons, not to mention exhibitions of original comics from early in cartoon history. Antique dealers buy and sell animation cels. The high-low culture dichotomy is no longer dogma.