Contemporary Drawing: Key Concepts and Techniques - Rilegato

Davidson, Margaret

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ISBN 10: 0823033155 ISBN 13: 9780823033157

Casa editrice: Watson-Guptill, 2011

Riassunto

A reference for serious artists explores the conceptual and technical foundations of contemporary art as expressed in biennials, art fairs and exhibitions, offering insight into such topics as the historical and conceptual origins of today's drawing techniques and the examples of leading modern masters.

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L'autore:

Margaret Davidson has a BFA from the University of Michigan and a MFA from the University of Washington. She is represented by Anchor Art Space in Anacortes, Washington. Davidson currently teaches courses in Beginning Drawing, Drawing from Modern Masters, the Aesthetics of Drawing, and various drawing technique classes at Gage Academy of Art in Seattle, Washington.

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Drawings are, in truth, flat things. Whether they are on paper or cloth or walls or floors, they are actually flat. Furthermore, even when the surface is a three-dimensional thing, a drawn image that is wrapped around it is made emphatically flat, by sheer contrast. Some contemporary drawing artists explore this flatness. To do so requires attention to the mark on the surface, and a constant awareness of the mark's relationship to the space implicit on the page. This is no easy thing, but the results, when this is carried out well, can be both austere and luminous. To focus on the mark and its realtionship to the surface and the space is something akin to meditation and focusing on one's own breathing. Both are so fundamental, so easily taken for granted, that it is difficult to sustain any amount of thoguht just for them. However, in drawing, when this is achieved, once the eye and hand have been successfully focused, the mind is free to open to a new sense of space and time.

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• Editore: Watson-Guptill
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0823033155
• ISBN 13: 9780823033157
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 192