Hello Drawing 2 Students,
Please read the article on Sculptor's and their drawings. Consider how drawing has changed throughout history and how it informs other disciplines as well as circumvent them. How does this alter the way we see drawing? Please investigate the drawings of the artists mentioned in the article and then find parallels to their three-dimensional work.
After reading, please post your personal response as well as two images, in the same format as the previous posting, that are examples of the ideas expressed in this article.
Thanks,
Brandon
due Tuesday
10 points
Sculptors' Drawing
ReplyDeletePaper is how I had limited drawing to pencil and paint. Drawing has numerous interpretations through the minds eye. It has changed throughout the ages in many ways but has stayed constant as well. Evidence reveals the constancy that the artists' interpretation of how to feel, express, create, and explore drawing has never been just on paper. Pyramids, stone castles, marble carved ceilings, statues, alters, jewelry, etc., all are expressions that seep from ones inspiration to the beginnings of another's unique twist of that inspiration. Like Giorgio Vasari, he was profoundly influenced by Michelangelo even though he was not listed in the Sculptors Drawing article. Vasaris' Cathedral paintings reveal similar large unique canvas, like ceilings, that although they were different in the medium used, the larger than life inspiration showed up in enormous freestanding sculptures of Richard Serra, only his canvas was metal. Both of these sculptors were successful architects. Another great architect was Martin Puryear, however he "used wood in so many ways that it felt like new material." His canvas was natures many contrasting tones of wood that he smoothed out with his hands into psychological, deceptive illusions. His art piece called the ladder demonstrated the foreshortening optical illusion that the ladder was exaggerated in its length. Rachel Whiteread sculpts with odd and familiar pieces of junkshop items as well as plaster, and stone over and over again yet different, like Puryer does with his wood.
So then, how has drawing changed throughout history? Joel Shapiro said, "Painters were investigating the bridge between painting and sculpture—by using shaped canvases and making painting less illusionistic and more real—and sculptors were trying to make sculpture that was more painterly." I feel history has used each others inspirations with their own twist, having the courage to create outside the box like using wood, (Puryear) or pieces of gigantic metal (Serra), and plaster with pieces of junk (Whiteread). We continue to critque art with the disciplines from eachother's eras, recognizing the very significant change from the Renaissance era of drawing. The way we see drawing has been altered in the sense that our minds eye accepts an overlapping of what ever is beauty in the eye of the beholder as a masterpiece without a narrow minded judgment of critiquing the art negatively, yet subjected to the artists interpretation with no boundaries.
Article: Rachel Whiteread: 'I've done the same thing over and over'
Artist:Rachel Whiteread
Art: Sculpting with plaster, stone, junkshop items
Titles: Embankment, House
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/rachel-whiteread-ive-done-the-same-thing-over-and-over-2068718.html?action=gallery
Article: By Blouin Artinfo : Joel Shapiro
Artist: Joes Shapiro
Art: Sculpting Abstract
Titles: untitled (jsh02-6), 4 elements
http://www.lalouver.com/html/shapiro_bio.html
Article:Humanity’s Ascent, in Three Dimensions
Artist: Martin Puryear
Art: Wood sculpting
Titles: Bower, and Ladder for Booker T. Washington
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/28
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/02/arts/design/02pury.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Article: Richard Serra
Artist: Richard Serra
Art: sculptor
Titles: Fulcrum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Serra
Article: Giorgio Vasari
Artist: Giorgio Vasari
Art: Paintings and architectural sculptors
Titles: Florence Catheral and Palazzo della Cancelleria, Istoria
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Vasari
This topic brings me back to Drawing1 when we did the assemblage project. I admit now that I was very narrow minded to believe that Drawing was simply a piece of paper and a pencil (or pen, charcoal etc. you get the idea). I enjoyed the first quote in the reading by Giorgio Vasari, in that the idea of drawing is not just two dimensional as many are led to believe. It is a form of expression not limited to one medium or what materials we use to put our thoughts together. Sometimes, a piece of paper and pencil just isn't enough to express what need be said through my art, so the thought comforts me that there are endless possibilities on how I can approach my drawing. This is how drawing has changed throughout MY history, but throughout history overall I think people in general are a lot more narrow minded when it comes to drawing. We are taught that it is only 2D and we are somewhat trapped in the mindset that it can only be accomplished with a 2D surface. This saddens me and I wish more art teachers in lower levels of learning would embellish on the idea that drawing can be 3D as well, such as a Sculpture. I think a lot more students would open up more to the idea of creating something and been more able to find their own favorite ways of expressing themselves, instead of just with pencils or paint. I am the type of artist that doesn't like to be defined by one "genre" or medium, but I like to explore everything I am capable of doing with different materials.
ReplyDeleteSorry if that sounded like more of a rant than a response.
Artist: Richard Serra
Piece Name: Open Ended
Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog+serra
I really enjoy Richard Serra's work and this is another link to the article "Man of Steel" which is about him and shows another piece I love by him:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2007/apr/17/art.jonathanjones
Piece: The Matter of Time
Artist: Jim Crow
Piece: No Betweens
Link: http://www.sfmoma.org/explore/collection/artwork/20917#
Arist:Claes Oldenburg
Piece: Soft Viola
It won't let me get a link of just the one piece but here's his collection. The soft Viola is hard to miss. I like it a lot because I play the Viola:
http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/Oldenburg/Images
Wow, I think I hate not having a mouse for this laptop. I just erased my entire response.
ReplyDeleteOkay, so I enjoyed the writing, especially the fact that I realized I only had to read one page. It reminded me of the time I submitted a drawing to an art competition, and was subsequently discouraged by the lack of drawing finalists. There were mainly paintings and sculptures, which to me mirrored the historical value placed on those works of art over drawing. I love drawing as an end to itself, not just as a means to an end. But I also realized with this assignment that I love it as a means to an alternate form of expression.
I watched a video that showed the scrapbook of Rachel Whiteread's Water Tower, and I loved the constructionalistic nature of it. How she had photos on top of drawings and drawings on top of photos and structural plans all interwoven. The Water Tower itself was a really interesting piece, but seeing her scrapbook took me into her mind. It seemed like an intergral part of the process, and it showed me the creative pathways that evolved as she planned her sculpture.
I also loved and hated Janine Antoni's sculptural drawing pieces. They all evoked a strong emotion from me. I like how she uses mixed media to express herself. This is a stretch, perhaps, but I think of how my daughter is learning to read not only with words on a page, but with actions and phonemes, and how when my son gets angry I have him push or squeeze something (other than his sister), because it gets the whole body involved in the process, the whole brain. To me, interweaving drawing techniques and sculpture is a way to incorporate the whole being.
Artist: Janine Antoni
Work: Saddle
Link: http://www.luhringaugustine.com/artists/janine-antoni/#/images/20/
Work: Inhabit
Link: http://www.luhringaugustine.com/artists/janine-antoni/#/images/33/
Artist: Nancy Voegeli-Curran
Work: Cosmic Lace
Link: http://www.nancyvcurran.com/sculptural-drawings/cosmic-lace
Artist: Douglas Fenn-Wilson
Work: Hands and Feet #6
Link: http://www.douglasfennwilson.com/Gallery/SculpturalDrawings/html/HandsandFeet6.html
--Sonya
As much as I like to post links to work I've experienced personally, nothing comes to mind. There's a semantic argument to be had regarding whether anything that is not limited to marking on a 2 dimensional surface can be considered drawing (although there is no reasonable debate that it is art, of course). Most of the art I've seen exhibited in galleries or museums would fit under the categories of painting, sculpture, or some sort of assemblage. It tends to be very rare to see drawings, though it can be enjoyable to see studies by master artists.
ReplyDeleteIn terms of 3 dimensional drawings, I really enjoy the distorting drawings that create a true three dimensional image when reflected from a cylinder. There are multiple artists doing this, but I've only seen it on the internet. I've not seen it displayed in person.
Artist: Jannick Deslauriers
Work: Tank
Link: http://typologica.com/2011/11/18/actual-size-the-sculptural-drawings-of-jannick-deslauriers-and-joan-linder/
Artist: Tomohiro Inaba
Work: Untitled
Link: http://kingofsenses.blogspot.com/2012/04/sculptural-drawings-becoming-object.html