On Drawing critique day
Warhol Diamond Dust Shoes 1980 serigraph
Ideas generating concepts from the TATE article for your own drawings
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He walked back and forth, until the flattened grass caught the light such that it was "visible as a line". Then he photographed the line in black and white, and went home.
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A creature's "foil" is the track it leaves on grass or other surfaces, such as shale, snow, sand, forest floor. From the late 1960s onwards, Long experimented with foil works.
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The audacity of Long's early work lay in freeing sculpture from the constraints of scale.
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Long's other innovation was to make his work not only in the landscape, but of the landscape. Not land art, exactly - he's always resisted that label (as he has resisted any associations with the romantic walking tradition of Rousseau, Wordsworth, Thoreau).
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Long's legs are his stylus, his feet the nib with which he inscribes his traces on the world. Walking becomes an act of inscription, and his work is a reminder that our verb "to write" originally referred to a kind of incisive track-making.
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We don't intuitively imagine the foot to be an expressive or perceptive body part. It feels more of a prosthesis, there to carry us about, rather than to interpret or organise the world for us.
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Long's feet see the world for him. But they also, less conceptually, bear him and launch him.
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"My work has become a simple metaphor for life. A figure walking down his road, making his mark. I am content with the vocabulary of universal and common means; walking, placing, stones, sticks, water, circles, lines, days, nights, roads."
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Samuel Beckett - who, like Long, found much to meditate on and much to laugh at in the act of walking; and who, like Long, loved country lanes and bicycles, pebbles and circles - once observed that it is impossible to walk in a straight line, because of the curvature of the earth. There's a great deal of Long in that remark.
SA 302. STUDENT remarks:
"When thinking about drawing, I immediately think about art as a whole; the different mediums and techniques. I have always connected with the emotion and the paper, with the people I have met, with my teachers, and I finally was able to connect with myself...Drawing has become something more to me than just lines on paper...it connects me to what is important to me in my life. By drawing, learning, and creating it did save me in a way. So not only is drawing a connection of lines to create a bigger picture, it's a connection of lines in people's lives that link us together. What drawing means to me is life; whether it's the life of an art work, or the life of the artist."
"To me drawing is a form or expression, just as most forms of art are perceived. Drawing specifically can be anything if your imagination is flexible enough. Sol LeWitt once expressed “conceptual artist are mystics rather than rationalists.” I believe this shows the artist's ability to grasp ideas deep within a creative mind or ideal to create a piece that challenges that of conventional art.
Joseph Beuys once said “thinking is sculpture” and this means a lot when expressing your mark because it creates a sense of freedom where there are no wrong answers, and creative expression can take place. Similarly “formal art is essentially rational” says Sol LeWitt. This can also mean that in understanding drawing that anything can take place and to embrace more nontraditional art forms and to take irrational risks."
"What is Drawing?
According to Webster's dictionary, drawing is defined as “the art or technique of representing an object or outlining a figure, plan, or sketch by means of lines”. This of course is usually the first thing many people think of when it comes to drawing, I was and still am one of them. Yet, after really contemplating the word drawing and looking through various definitions, I’ve come to find that it's meaning isn’t art specific, it engulfs a lot of different positions. Drawing isn’t just about the line one puts on the paper, it’s about what you take from that line.
Sol LeWitt once said, “When words such as painting and sculpture are used, they connote a whole tradition, thus placing limitations on the artist who could be reluctant to make art that goes beyond the limitations”. I think the same thing goes for the word drawing, drawing has always been seen as this one method used in the making of art and that’s not all it entails. Another definition of drawing is to take something from something else, “I am drawing a bucket of water from the well." So, I have come to the conclusion that its more significant what one gets out of a piece of artwork, than what they can do to it. What if someone was to hang a piece of blank white paper on a wall in a gallery and call it a work of art, now the artist of course did not physically draw anything on this piece of paper, but that doesn't mean that nothing can be drawn from it. A lot of people may look at this piece of paper and see nothing, but others would look and draw many things from it.
Sol LeWitt also said, “Perception is subjective," and I think especially regarding this example, that really is true. Everyone draws differently, some understand and can take away more meanings than others. A blank piece of white paper may not be a drawing in of itself, but it definitely allows for the act of drawing to take place."
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