Drawing. Week 9.

Drawing

Week 9 (Friday 29^th November 2013)

The first group of presentations were given on artists that inspired my fellow students have found, this includes:

Henri Michaux

He uses poetry, words, music and rhythm for his work, he creates his own language from this but the viewer is still able to translate.

I find his work interesting with the marks that he makes but personally I would prefer more structure and there be an image that I can give a name to an interpret from there.

Henri Michaux , Untitled, 1975-6, Lithograph on paper, 470 x 648 mm

Frank Auerbauch

He does simple layers and builds on them, shadows to form a 3D effect and mainly works in pencil and charcoal. ‘Chasing one’s own shadow’

I find that due to the layers you have to distinguish one aspect from another, he can also create depth in his drawings, almost as if they have a soul and your looking straight through it.

Frank Auerbach, Catherine, 1989,

 Etching on paper, 178 x 147 mm

Tim Knowles

He makes the environment draw his work, such as taping a pen to the bottom of tree leaves and letting the wind draw or put a pen in a box and send it somewhere, see how it was handled. It is tracking movement and travel.

His work reminds me of a map and in some ways it is a map, its capturing time and movement. Also what I particularly like is the fact that no to images will ever be the same, it is unique.

Tim Knowles, Mk3 Postal drawing, 2006, 

Perspex, cardboard, pen, ink on paper

  

James Allen

He works by dragging the media so that it leaves marks; it is so that it shows movement but is controlled. He works in an architectural style on places that are touristy but all his work has figures in.  His early work is just charcoal this has expression in compare to his newer works with charcoal, marker pen, and acrylic where it is too controlling and purposeful. He starts off with sketches then goes large but he visits the same place over and over again.

His work appeals to me due to the build-up off layer to create the image but is dusty like nobody notices it, its fading into the background. Also that it’s architectural and you can clearly see what the image is but you know there is something more as it’s too peaceful for its environment.

James Allen, Augustine House Building Site,

Canterbury. 2009 | Compressed Charcoal, 42cm x 59.5cm