Showing posts with label Term 1: Drawing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Term 1: Drawing. Show all posts
Wednesday, 15 January 2014
Journey Project
My Journey route involved walking to where my friends are. However whilst drawing my journey I found that my drawings were more interesting if I kept walking whist drawing. This gave my work momentum. Then I had the idea of letting my hand go free and just draw the motion of my walking. I explored this using different colours to reflect my mood on my journey, for example red for angry. Furthermore I experimented by drawing on top of photographs of my journey. However I found that filling the page with my journey in just plain black really emphasized that my work was about the movement.
Sunday, 5 January 2014
Talking About Drawing Robert Longo
Robert Longo born in 1953 is an American contemporary artist. I saw his piece, Untitled (In the garden, et in Arcadia ego) at Frieze and it took up most of the wall at 152.4 x 304.8 cm. It is a drawing of a Forrest scene in charcoal on mounted paper.
I translated the title from Latin and discovered it meant, 'In the garden and I am in Arcadia/Paradise.' I researched Arcadia and it is a place in Greece however in poetic fantasy it represents a pastoral paradise and in Greek mythology it is the home of Pan, the Greek god of nature.
I chose to talk about this piece as technically it is really amazing. When I first saw it at Frieze I thought that it was a black and white photograph but as I got closer I realised it was a drawing. Secondly I like the contrast of the light shining through the darkness of the Forrest.
When I first looked at this drawing I thought Longo could have been inspired by this incredible view he saw. Inspiration formed from the shadows in the Forrest into his mind and he felt he just had to convey the beauty of nature. However after a second look at his piece I found it very commercial, I struggled to find a meaning behind the work and as it is technically a very good piece of artwork a vast number of people may appreciate it and perhaps buy it. However after discussing this piece in the drawing session it is more likely that this piece is actually about death. The phrase, 'et in Arcadia ego,' is often used in artwork to show death, as the person has gone to paradise or Heaven. The strong contrast of light and dark also suggests death as light is often associated with Heaven and the light seems to be drawing you in towards it, like the expression, "go towards the light".
The process' of Longo's drawings involves him projecting a photograph onto a piece of paper and then tracing the figures in graphite. He then has his illustrator, Diane Shea, fill in details. Then he goes over the work in graphite and charcoal.
I translated the title from Latin and discovered it meant, 'In the garden and I am in Arcadia/Paradise.' I researched Arcadia and it is a place in Greece however in poetic fantasy it represents a pastoral paradise and in Greek mythology it is the home of Pan, the Greek god of nature.
I chose to talk about this piece as technically it is really amazing. When I first saw it at Frieze I thought that it was a black and white photograph but as I got closer I realised it was a drawing. Secondly I like the contrast of the light shining through the darkness of the Forrest.
When I first looked at this drawing I thought Longo could have been inspired by this incredible view he saw. Inspiration formed from the shadows in the Forrest into his mind and he felt he just had to convey the beauty of nature. However after a second look at his piece I found it very commercial, I struggled to find a meaning behind the work and as it is technically a very good piece of artwork a vast number of people may appreciate it and perhaps buy it. However after discussing this piece in the drawing session it is more likely that this piece is actually about death. The phrase, 'et in Arcadia ego,' is often used in artwork to show death, as the person has gone to paradise or Heaven. The strong contrast of light and dark also suggests death as light is often associated with Heaven and the light seems to be drawing you in towards it, like the expression, "go towards the light".
The process' of Longo's drawings involves him projecting a photograph onto a piece of paper and then tracing the figures in graphite. He then has his illustrator, Diane Shea, fill in details. Then he goes over the work in graphite and charcoal.
Friday, 29 November 2013
Life Drawing Woman Standing With Chair
In this Life Drawing Session to teach us not to be precious with our work we drew on our own work for ten minutes and then walked around the room rubbing out parts of peoples drawings, redrawing and reworking them creating interesting blurred images.
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