Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Rollin BeamishTaylor, Caleb Josiah2013-06-252013-06-252008https://scholarworks.montana.edu/handle/1/2397My investigation of painting has led to creating abstractions that refer to internal and external anatomical forms. Microscopic images initiated a dialogue that guided each paintings reference to the body. Evolving from a figurative background, my work has sequentially advanced through the construction of a personal visual language which changed from a perceptual investigation to an intuitive, visceral analysis. This progression allowed a thorough study of abstract elements and their formal potential.enPainting, AbstractHuman figure in artAnatomyThesisCopyright 2008 by Caleb Josiah Taylor