In relation to the drawing task we just completed we were given a list of artists to research into to help contextualize what we have done.
William Kentridge
For me, the above video of Kentridge speaking of "a world fixed in time" related to our task in the sense of movement in an image. Going back to the first two drawings we completed, the second one contained a lot more movement than the first as we explored more dynamic ways of mark making and I feel our drawings held more and more movement as we continued through the enlargements. I feel our final group drawing showed a lot of movement due to its sense of direction and how it took your eye on a journey around the image even though it was static.
" The drawings don't start with 'a beautiful mark'. It has to be a mark of something out there in the world. It doesn't have to be an accurate drawing, but it has to stand for an observation, not something that is abstract, like an emotion." - William Kentridge by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev (1998), Societe des Expositions du Palais de Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles.
Blu
I'm not sure what I was expecting when I watched this video but a whole 7 minutes of extraordinarily bonkers graffiti animation wasn't it. This completely blew my mind in all sorts of ways. Not just the drawings themselves but the extensive thought that must of gone on behind them to create the sequence. For me that's what relates to our task the most - the idea of thinking before every mark made. It portrays how important decision making is when drawing.
Blu Big Bang Big Boom Video
Tony Orrico
This has to be the ultimate representation of movement in a static piece of art work. Looking at the finished product you can see the dynamic marks made through the powerful movement of his arms across the page. For me this relates to our task as he mentions the process being more exciting than the finished product. The action of the mark making and the thinking behind each mark, in this case the different movements he made with his arms to represent different branches of science, being the most important part of the process.
Cy Twombly
Cy Twombly's works relate to our task due to his active mark making. His pieces have a handwriting like quality and are like a language for the viewer to read. I can see similarities between the two pieces below and some of the other drawings completed by other groups in our task. The works contain vast amounts of energy and you can almost see the action his arm makes when creating the marks on these pieces.
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| Untitled I 1967 |
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| Untitled II |
Franz Kline
Franz Kline was suggested to us as an artist to research as Vishal, Ellis and Kayla's piece showed similarities to his work. After looking at some of his pieces these similarities are very clear to me in terms of the marks, contrast and space. He uses quite harsh, scratchy and extremely black marks that contrast immensely with the vast amount of white space in the background which is similar to the piece created by Vishal, Ellis and Kayla.
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| Chief 1950 |
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| Painting Number 2 1954 |
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