Contemporary Drawing: Key Concepts and Techniques - Hardcover

Davidson, M

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0823033155 ISBN 13: 9780823033157

Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications Inc.,U.S., 2011

Synopsis

This title looks at drawing's current renewal of importance in the art world through illuminating discussion. It is suitable for beginner to professional-level artists seeking advanced explorations of the foundations of drawing.

It is illustrated by specific drawing examples & techniques by modern era masters & leading contemporary artists. It is suitable for serious beginner to professional-level artists seeking advanced explorations of the conceptual and technical foundations of modern era and contemporary drawing.

Contents includes:

• Surface
• Space
• Mark
• Composition

Drawing has recently experienced a renewal of importance in the art world; in fact, it has rarely been as widely represented in the biennials, art fairs and exhibitions as it is now.

"Contemporary Drawing" explores this resurgence through illuminating discussions on the historical and conceptual underpinnings of contemporary drawing, which are then reinforced and illustrated with specific drawing examples/techniques by modern era masters and leading contemporary artists.

About this title

About the Author

Margaret Davidson has taught at the Pratt Fine Arts Center in Washington State, at Indiana University and at the University of Washington. Davidson currently teaches courses in Drawing from Modern Masters, the Aesthetics of Drawing and Advanced Drawing Techniques at the Gage Academy of Art in Seattle, Washington.

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Drawings are, in truth, flat things. Whether they are on paper or cloth or walls or floors, they are actually flat. Furthermore, even when the surface is a three-dimensional thing, a drawn image that is wrapped around it is made emphatically flat, by sheer contrast. Some contemporary drawing artists explore this flatness. To do so requires attention to the mark on the surface, and a constant awareness of the mark's relationship to the space implicit on the page. This is no easy thing, but the results, when this is carried out well, can be both austere and luminous. To focus on the mark and its realtionship to the surface and the space is something akin to meditation and focusing on one's own breathing. Both are so fundamental, so easily taken for granted, that it is difficult to sustain any amount of thoguht just for them. However, in drawing, when this is achieved, once the eye and hand have been successfully focused, the mind is free to open to a new sense of space and time.

Edition details

• Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications Inc.,U.S.
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0823033155
• ISBN 13: 9780823033157
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192