Surrelistic Adaptation

Text Drawing Exercise - microphone

Timeline Video

Franklin Institute Out of class Drawing Assignment

I did sketches of three different things from the Amazing Machine exhibit at the Franklin Institute and I plan to turn one into a much more finished drawing.

Durer Writing Assignment

Albrecht Dürer’s piece “The Assumption and Coronation of the Virgin” from 1510 is one of Dürer’s prints that is currently being shown in his exhibit in the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. This piece showcases how talented Dürer was at printmaking specifically because of all the small details that are used in this and because of the size of the piece. If you get up really close to the darker areas, you can see the use of crosshatching and how extremely small the details are in certain parts, which shows off Dürer’s talent. The name of the piece is also extremely fitting for it. It shows exactly what it’s saying; there are mortal people on the ground below this cloud-like area where the Virgin Mary and two others, probably Christ and God are seated with her. It’s obvious that these are holy figures because they have halos around their heads in a kind of subtle way in which Dürer just leaves a certain amount of space blank to give the presence of the halos around their heads. Even without the title, the piece itself could easily be interpreted as what it’s supposed to be – “The Assumption and Coronation of the Virgin.”

The whole print seems to be done simply through line work, which is amazing to me because of how difficult I always think it is to show depth and shadows accurately with just the use of line. The way that Dürer uses line in this print is kind of like crosshatching. For most areas, it’s just one layer of lines, but then to darken up and give the figures and background modeling he uses crosshatching and it gives depth to the whole print successfully. It’s successful the way he changes the directions in which the line goes to show the way the fabric of the figures clothes move, or around the halos showing kind of like the background shooting out from it. Also in the tomb, or box in the bottom middle of the pint, the use of line gives perspective to it and depth to make the object three dimensional which is another good use of line. Overall, the entire piece is mostly about line, which is like almost all of Dürer’s work.

It’s extremely obvious the mood that Dürer is trying to get across and the expressions on the figure’s faces show it. It shows the Virgin Mary, Christ, and God all with very calm and content faces and the figures below them seem to all be shocked which helps show the subject matter. The landscape of the print shows trees as if the figures are standing in a forest, which would make sense if they were around the box, which I assume to be a tomb. While most artists don’t do anything involving the Virgin Mary’s death, I know that Dürer has other pieces of his work that incorporate the theme of her death. This piece itself is more about the assumption of the Virgin Mary rather than the death, even though it seems to incorporate that element into the piece. This print by Dürer manages to use line in a successful way, and shows the story of the assumption that the viewer can understand without even reading the title.

Abstraction Piece

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Studio Material Edited:

Self Portrait

Pastel Drawing

3 Sentences About Self Portrait

For my self portrait I want to do it mostly studio based and do it in either pencil and then go back in charcoal and do the shading or use pastels in it. I want to do a pretty basic self portrait of myself look wise, but incorporate my interest of Harry Potter. I plan to do this by adding elements such as a flying golden snitch and a wand to the drawing.

Portrait of an Artist Interviews

The quote I chose is by the artist Erik Hougen: "In the past year or two, I have been making large watercolors and silkscreens inspired by a vivid dream I had. In the dream I had to bury my own dead body. I looked at the dream not as scary, gory, or horrific, but as more of an awakening or a rebirth. I have had some big events in my life recently, and maybe my mind had to bury my old body, or self, to transition into the next part of my life." I chose this artist because his work uses a bunch of different techniques to show a variety of portraits in his work. This shows that there's plenty of different ways to look at a portrait or self-portrait besides a straight on view of a person. I picked this quote because it goes along with our self-portrait project in the way that we have to think of it not just as a straight up self-portrait, but instead of a way to incorporate our personality into the piece and by doing that we have to kind of look at ourselves and our lives to think of what we'd include.

Skeleton Animation

Labeled Skeleton

Skeletons

Hand Animation

Figure Animation

Gestrual Path Drawing

Harry Potter Glasses Sketch

Alarm Clock Sketch

Camera Sketch

Scissors Sketch

Stuffed Bear Sketch

Charcoal Animation

Reading Discussion

The quote I chose is "To draw is never a transcription of thought (in the sense of writing) but rather a formulation or elaboration of the thought itself at the very moment it translates itself into an image." I chose this quote because it's how drawings that aren't from still life works really. You get an idea in your head of how something would look and when you draw it, it is a translation from an idea into an image like the quote says so it's like bringing your imagination to paper in a way.
The artist I chose who I think represents good drawing is Tracy Lee Stum who is known for her 3D chalk art, and I think it goes along with the quote because a lot art ideas that she's thought of more than art based on a picture or still life you could look at and draw.