Class notes from SAIC, 1991
Strive for awareness of movement from:
- warm to cool
- bright to dull
- repetition to change
- quiet to noisy
Creating Movement Through Color
Draw Abstracted Form Merging with Landscape
Class notes, from Advanced Drawing Studio with Barbara Rossi, SAIC, 1991
“The creative process lies not in imitating, but in paralleling nature—translating the impulse received from nature into the medium of expression, thus vitalizing this medium. The picture should be alive, the statue should be alive and every work of art should be alive.”
– Hans Hoffman
Think about forms of nature that excite you: creatures, clouds, rocks, wood, trees, bones, water, fog.
Make lots of drawings of abstracted form merging with the landscape.
Hoffman’s “Search for the Real.”
The sound of machines; music.
Thorax (horse drowning in a sea of sadness).
To Create Form, Find an Equivalent for Life
Class notes from Drawing the Figure in Space with Elizabeth Rupprecht, SAIC, 1991
Purpose: to create form; to find an equivalent for life.
Check out Frank Stella‘s “Working Spaces.” Exploring another area of cubism.
Cut up something and rearrange it within a grid. Implied floorplane.
Look at Hoffman‘s “Golden Wall” in the museum.
Look at Holbein for eyes, mouth. Look at Giacometti.
Nose and ear are often parallel, curved or straight, whatever.
View a gallery of drawings made in this way from this class.