Please be sure to have all appropriate drawing supplies and materials for Thursday's class and subsequent classes until otherwise stated.
In your sketchbook: Open to 2 free pages, on the left side, do a Pure (blind) Contour Drawing focusing your eyes on the lines and edges one millimeter at a time. On the right page, do a contour drawing looking at the page and using your line to describe what you are seeing.
Do 3 of these, choosing objects that are semi-complex. Not a shoebox or laptop, but also, not a pile of fabric.
Please read chapters "The "is" of Drawing"and "The Double Time of Drawing"
If you don't know an artist mentioned or a movement, google it!
Please post your responses on the blog before class.
Afterimage: Drawing Through Process
"The "is" of Drawing"
ReplyDeleteHonestly, this chapter kind of confused me. I'm not sure if I understood it fully or not. Process art seems to be more about developing a creative journey, forming the art, expressing yourself, and not focusing on the end product. Drawing is the basis for all forms of art in my opinion. Without drawing, would there even be different types of art? Drawing has a place in every art forms history, most the time when making a model for something whether it be a sculpture or painting, some form of a sketch is made. Therefore, drawings place in process art or sculpture should be recognized.
"The Double Time of Drawing"
The statement " the basis of both painting and sculpture alike, drawing has been treated as the ground from which all other arts originate." really stood out to me in this chapter. This statement has powerful meaning behind it because the basic skill of drawing is what connects all artist as one. There are many forms of art, but without the basic skill of drawing, would they exist today? You can have a painter and a designer together in one room, and they can have at least one common ability. That common ability is to be able to communicate through drawing. I definitely agree that drawing is "the mother of the arts." because without it, there may not be any form of art.
The "is" of Drawing
ReplyDeleteI feel like what is trying to be said is that whether you add more or add less, it just "is". The only reason why anything is ever done is because people say, its done. Nothing is truely ever done, or undone. Also, that the end product now tends to overrule what the drawing says and consistes of. The relationship between the artist and his tools/materials reflects the artwork. No matter how things are made, the process is still an art.
The double Time of Drawing
What I really got from this is that art used to be built on sculptures and painting, those were the main art forms. But now adays, it is an older "art". Now adays, its more of anything can be art, and everything is art. Things finished or not, are art. everything can be, is, or once was art. Knowing this and trying to think of the art from years before to now, and the difference in it all just blows my mind away, trying to wrapp my head around it.
The "is" of Drawing
ReplyDeletewhether or not something is indeed what it is depends on if it's agreed on. I could say that my laptop is sitting on this table but that is only how I see it. it depends on whether or not everyone else agrees with me. The beauty of art is that I can just as easily say that my drawing has no room for improvement but whether or not people agree with it does not really matter since it is my own artwork. The artwork an artist produces reflects them entirely and will reflect what they see in art.
The Double Time of Drawing:
Art then was (what we see today as) more traditional. most cultures spent their artwork sculpting and painting, trying with each piece to gain more realism in the way they see man. however art today has moved past that in a way that seems as though we got bored with realism and now its purely about expression or getting a message across. And with the strength of today's media the next piece of art has to be ever more powerful than the last.
The "is" of Drawing
ReplyDeleteThis article confused me a little bit but what I got out of it was that how drawing was the fundamentals of figuring out what you really want to create. It is the foundation to process art, hence the term process, a step by step progression to an ultimate goal.
The Double Time of Drawing
Over the course of time the word art has been strung out to become an umbrella term. Back then, art was only applied to sculptures and painting. Learning how to master this type of art. But today, art can be applied to many things. Being able to do something can be described as a type of art.