ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the criteria for evaluating the strength of visual language research, ideation, and creativity; and what background research needs to be undertaken and documented, to inform works of visual art and how such work might be seen, read, and understood by a variety of audiences from experts to the average person. For the process of the creation of an artwork to be classified as undergraduate research the student must engage in materials training to bring their ideas into physical manifestation with respect to researching the histories of representation, iconography, semiotics, aesthetics, and the analysis of existing artworks and art movements. Student artists must become familiar with the major aspects, techniques, and directions in their chosen art medium. Art and science collaborations are becoming prolific and for the same reasons as art and religion’s longstanding relationship: Art can engage in complexity and abstraction.
