Cool Artists:
Xanti Schawinsky: "Head Drawings and Faces of War" (1941-1946). Mixed Media. Watercolor and black pen.
Deals with the struggle of an artist coping with identity and the struggle of war (The Drawing Center)
Natalie Frank: "The Brothers Grimm" (2011-2014). Gouache and Chalk Pastel.
A psychological twist on what stories we all know and love. She takes the familiarity of the fairy tale genre and twists it into something unfamiliar (The Drawing Center)
Abdelkador Benchamma: "Representation of Dark Matter" (2015). Mixed Media. Black pen, India Ink, and charcoal against the gallery's white walls.
Creates striking large-scale drawings. This one in particular, was meant to create a vortex representing the highly complex nature of black holes (The Drawing Center)
Paul Chiappe: "Untitled Series" (2010). Pencil.
Verging on the psychologically dark and creepy side, Chiappe creates small hyper realistic drawings that replicate old photographs (The Drawing Center)
Lebbeus Woods: "Architect" (1988). Media not specified.
Woods takes what is physically represented in our world, and changes them to depict something psychologically different. This feeds into his narrative of how our constructions feed into our beings (The Drawing Center).
Reflection: I chose these artists as some of my favorites, based off of the website The Drawing Center. This website houses a huge amount of artists' work, all of which is featured on their site.
The above sequence of images are from artists who really captivated me. As you can see, we can create similar underlying themes that each drawing has in common with each other. By doing this project, I realized that I am more intrigued by images that shape reality. When artists twist and contort what is psychologically already familiar to us, I find this really fascinating. Not only this, but the media used in these drawings can be fairly complex, but it does not necessarily have to be (as we see Chiappe's and Schawinsky's works done with only a few tools of art). These pieces are highly intriguing in that they make us question what can be considered 'art', and draws responses of how we each view art differently. We each find fascination in varying images, and techniques that are created by artists.
(Subjectively) Not as Cool Artists:
Jackie Ferrara: "Lines" (1993-Present). Colored Pencil.
Lines are drawn to represent architectural elements and components. Underneath or through the images are film titles written in Morse code (The Drawing Center)
Jennifer Bartlett: "Hospital" (2012). Pastel.
Her works are based through a series of photographs that are taken at New York Presbyterian Hospital. Deals primarily with interior spaces (The Drawing Center)
Ken Price: "Slow and Stead Wins the Race" (1962-2010). Work on paper.
Relatively new artist, aiming to represent a multitude of techniques done on paper (The Drawing Center)
Sean Scully: "Change and Horizontals" (1945). Acrylic, Ink, and Graphite.
Geometry that is changed based on the artist's representation of the abstract form (The Drawing Center)
Ignacio Uiarte: "Line of Work" (2010). BIC Pens.
Inspired from a former career in business administration, Uiarte aims to represent this line of work through the use of office BIC pens (The Drawing Center)
Reflection: I chose these artists as some of my least favorite because they are of things that I do not find interesting. Do not get me wrong, some of their techniques (such as Uiarte's work in BIC Pens and Ferrara's work with Morse Code) are actually quite interesting, but the way in which they are pulled off did not really catch my interest. I think drawings that are more psychologically or politically based are what really get me excited about art, and although these pieces have their own charm, they lack some sort of representation or theme that I was going for with this project. Overall, I think that these last five pieces are a sharp contrast to the ones I provide above. The color, content, and styles prove that people find different interests in different drawing techniques.
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