{"id":478,"date":"2020-04-09T13:34:19","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T17:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/?p=478"},"modified":"2020-04-27T08:35:53","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T12:35:53","slug":"time-capsule-drawing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/time-capsule-drawing\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Capsule drawing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Grace Bilodeau, Pencil, 9×6.5<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Cezanne, The Bather<\/em>, 1885<\/p>\n

Instead of meaningless background hatching (see my comment to Ian Strudwick about this as well), better to leave it blank…<\/p>\n

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…or, with just a hint of space around the figure (below). I’ve chosen a line that might represent the bottom of a wall, “trapping” him between a wall behind him and the picture plane that you’ve so effectively placed him up against. Remember how Juan Gris used a nameless shape behind the Max Jacob portrait in a similar way.<\/p>\n

I’ve set the line at a slight angle to make the space less stable and also since it’s about 90 degrees to the angle of his head, as well as that crease down the center of his shirt; a quiet way to connect the top to the bottom.<\/p>\n

I’ve also darkened the exposure, by the way, which I suspect is closer to the original (but I might be wrong). If not, the drawing should be (agreeing with Isaac).<\/p>\n

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Or, if you prefer an energized field of marks, at least make them “autographic” and not neutral. In this example I tried to pick up on the kind of marks (good ones) I see in the folds of the clothes. Note how they also bristle with a barely contained energy.<\/p>\n

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  Grace Bilodeau, Pencil, 9×6.5 Cezanne, The Bather, 1885 Instead of meaningless background hatching (see my comment to Ian Strudwick about this as well), better to leave it blank… …or, with just a hint of space around the figure (below). I’ve chosen a line that might represent the bottom of a wall, “trapping” him between … Continue reading “Time Capsule drawing”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1043,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-time-capsule-drawing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1043"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}