Essays on Drawing

The experience that I have had from this tour was unbelievable. It was my first experience visiting a museum online and it left me impressed. Anybody who does not want to move around or does not want to be with a crowd of people, will enjoy a virtual tour. But, the setbacks of a virtual…

Animation or in some people’s better understanding just a bunch of cartoon shows that use to air every Saturday morning. Well animation visually comes in many forms from different channels airing on the television, from different countries, different art styles or just the genre of the animated film. It is quite impressive the more you…

This painting called “Discouraged Workers”, made by Ben Norris in 1936 and was captured the activity of unemployed people near the Los Angeles Gas Work. Based on the information and observations, this art is a fine artwork but it is a contemporary def, to show a art have content used as a metaphor to explain…

One way through which people can express themselves is through art. Art holds an essential position in the in the history of communication, messages that range from political, spiritual ,educational and such like have been conveyed through art over the ages. At the foundation of any artistic work is the intention of passing a message…

Amy Sillman is amongst contemporary painters whose feminist practice combines the abstract and figurative into large-scale oil gestural paintings. Working in New York at the height of Abstract Expressionism, Sillman was influenced by the artist Willem De Kooning and gradually discovered her artistic maturity between abstraction and figuration. Inspired by the process art of the…

The representation and interpretation of Eastern women was categorized as a subfield and part of the greater discourse as referred to in Edward Said’s “Orientalism”. Orientalism, as discussed by Edward Said, is “a style of thought based upon ontological and epistemological distinction made between “the Orient” and (most of the time) “the Occident”” . By…

Leonardo da Vinci was born in Anchiano, Italy on April 15, 1452. He was son to a poorly woman named and a wealthy man Ser Piero, da Vinci was raised by his father and his stepmother. Around age five, he moved with nearby Anchiano where he lived with his uncle and grandparents. Da Vinci received…

“I don’t think about art when i’m working, I try to think about life.” (Jean-Michel Basquiat) As an artist I find great truth to generate from that quote by Basquiat. Most of the time I find that when I begin a sketch I don’t have any set idea as to what it is I plan…

This essay will turn to the topic of pulling. The chief starting point will be the thoughts of John Berger on Drawing. These thoughts can be summed up into three chief constructs: Drawing as observation, pulling as memory and drawing as showing thoughts. Although pulling from observation was of cardinal importance in the past today…

Scribbles are named, moves from kinesthesia thinking to imaginative thinking. Use of color is unrealistic and random. Children are egocentric. Attention span of children at this stage is limited to 5 minutes. C) Naming of scribbles. Moves from kinesthesia thinking to imaginative thinking. Not much difference between controlled scribbles and naming scribbles. Naming scribbles relates…