Friday, March 29, 2013
Museum HW
Raegan
Stewart
Cindy
Stockton-Moore
Drawing
II
Today
upon visiting the museum I found myself weirdly excited to see the Albrecht
Durer exhibit, as I found my way in I began noticing that it is majority wise
more sketch like drawings which I think is a great experience since it’s not
very often that you can truly appreciate the hand of someone’s work. The
individual lines that comprise to make the entire piece. I sat myself down in
front of Venus riding on a Dolphin created in 1503. This particular piece
features a nude Venus looking at the audience by peering over her shoulder,
holding a bouquet like thing in her hand with a blind folded cherub shooting a
bow and arrow on top. She is riding on a “dolphin” that looks like a Chinese
parade dragon.
The
most amazing thing about seeing it in person is really getting to appreciate
the lightness of Durer’s hand and the control he uses to execute each stroke.
Every line serves a defining purpose and though many lines are similar, as for
shading purposes, each line is different in some manner or another; wither
weight or direction or length. This giving each line a life of it’s own- this
though does not subtract from their cohesiveness. Durer’s line work also seems
to of been applied so gently since (from as close as I was allowed to get)
there seemed to be no indentation into the paper from any strokes. Also
revealed by the strokes is his wide range of ability, since he is able to
successfully use controlled short strokes in his shading and very whimsical
long strokes in the bouquets, hair, and especially in the explosion in the
upper right hand corner.
Overall
this piece has a daunting mystical presence to it, I felt so instantly drawn in
by the strength of the characters present, each one demanding equal amounts of
my attention, my eye traveled from Venus to the cherub and his arrow led to me
the dragon who’s body led me back to Venus- creating this perfect triangle of
activity. The piece also held it’s own in the exhibit, in my opinion, one of
his more interesting pieces due to it’s mystically.
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
let's get it started
first few photo progression shots of my self portrait piece! My photo reference pictures were taken by my boyfriend, subject matter inspired by my father, and style inspired by my sister Amanda Stewart, a bad ass illustrator. Lots of family inspiration in here!
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Phase one of domination completed
The ground work for the portrait is payed out in pencil now it's on to pen on Mylar and then some digital color washes
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Portrait of an Artist: Rieko Fujinami
I was originally drawn to this
portrait because of its daunting very encrypted imagery. I found myself
constantly scrolling back to it so I knew it was the piece I should write
about. There was instantly a sense of torture and struggle to the piece that I
myself could feel in the pits of my stomach as I stared. When reading whom the
piece was on I found that Fujinami had relayed her personal feelings for the
piece very well to the viewer, since she wanted the piece to she the inner
struggle of her friend, Aki, who was also a contemporary Japanese woman artist.
Aki though unlike Fujinami chose to be wed in a very traditional Japanese manner
and in that way lost a lot of her freedoms in her artwork and personal career
as an artist. Fujinami wanted her piece to show Aki’s inner turmoil. “On the
surface there was love and calmness, cooperation and harmony, but underneath
that I saw complex layers of ambivalence and struggle between love and
irritation, calm and impatience, passion and resignation.” Fujinami not only takes influence from
close personal friends and family but also from strangers, books, mythology,
world news, and American and British TV shows. She also works in a variety of
strange and challenging media’s and surfaces, such as fresco, etching, copper
tempera, painting on clear film or mirror and many more. She has developed a
very in-depth process of dealing with these difficult materials making her work
very difficult and very involved to produce and yet her style is so soft that
it seems nearly effortless to take in. This all in all making Fujinami a fascinating
and very endearing artist.
Friday, March 15, 2013
Monday, March 11, 2013
First sketch for self portrait
I have yet to decide what my final composition ill be but these are the first planning stages of my possible composition. The proportions aren't quite on but first sketch chyeah know.
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