CH 6 Drawing - Chapter 6 notes for online textbook for ART 200. PDF

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Chapter 6 notes for online textbook for ART 200....

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● “51 Ways of Looking” - Shahzia Sikander ● Many older drawings we see today were never intended for exhibition ○ “Guernica composition” - Picasso ○ “Star of Bethlehem and Other Plants” - Leonardo da Vinci ● “Untitled (Full Color Butterfly 772) - Mark Grotjahn ● Paper = material we associate with drawing ● Historically other surfaced have been used to draw on ○ Cave walls, fired clay, papyrus, silk ● Paper invented in china ○ Made from plant fibers, beaten to a pulp, mixed with water, then spread in thin layer over fine mesh surface ○ Used mold ○ Before painting, paper must be sized, treated with a substance like starch/glue to make it less absorbent ○ Cultural exchange Materials for Drawing ● Pigment: coloring material made from various organic/chemical substances ● Binder: substance that allows pigment to be shaped into sticks, to be suspended in fluid, and to adhere to drawing surface ● Dry Media ○ Graphite = pencil ■ “Prince among Thieves with Flowers” - Chris Ofili ○ Metalpoint = ancestor of graphite, thin wire made of a relatively soft metal such as silver ■ Ground: preliminary coating of paint, prepares drawing surface ■ “Figure Studies: Standing Nude and Seated Man Reading” - Filippino Lippi ○ Charcoal = charred wood ■ “Three Mile Island, Night I” - Yvonne Jacquette ○ Crayon, Pastel, and Chalk = ranges of color ■ Powdered pigments ■ Conte crayons = compressed pigments compounded with clay and greasy binder ● “Cafe-concert” - Georges Seurat ■ Pastel: pigment bound with a non-greasy binder such as a solution of gum arabic or gum tragacanth in water ● “The Singer in Green” - Edgar Degas ■ Black, white, red chalk ● Liquid Media ○ Pen and Ink

■ Pen nib = part of a pen that conveys ink to the drawing surface, metal ■ “Cottage among Trees” - Rembrandt ■ Wash: ink diluted with water and applied with a brush, to give greater solidity ■ Rapidograph ○ Brush and Ink ■ Difficult to define painting vs drawing Drawing and Beyond: Paper as a Medium ● Began to be produced by machine during 19th century ● “Still Life on Table: Gillette” - Georges Braque ○ Papier colle ● Collage: french for “gluing”, pasting of shapes onto a surface ○ “Mysteries” - Romare Bearden ○ “Hide and Seek, Kill or Speak” - Wangechi Mutu ○ “Inrush” - Mia Pearlman...