When I first started drawing, all that I wanted to do was to mimic the object I wanted to copy or create straight on paper. Trying to make the parts I drew look life-like was difficult. But i slowly overcame the obstacles, and am still trying.
I remember Mrstan once telling us that we should treat what we are trying to draw as simply lines, and not as their real form, so as to depict the most truthful observation we see and not what we believe it is. Since we often have the tendency to edit the lines we draw in belief that it will turn out realistic. This is certainly not the case.
Also, in my short learning journey, I learnt the importance of shapes. Not only that, they can be played with in various interesting manners, be expressed in many varying methods and help to convey entirely different styles and meaning.
A form is, "a shape of a thing of people", thereby, it is a crucial tool in aiding the artist in his depiction of things. Artists like Matisse, Picasso, Umberto Boccioni and David Hockney particularly like to have a say and control over the dictating the shape in their painting. Where Mattisse reduces the human figure into the bare essentials, with no edges or details rendered in it, while for Picasso, he fragments his forms into cubes and square planes, using geometric lines to flatten the picture surface.
Matisse, Circle of Life
Picasso, Girl Before A Mirror
Umberto Boccioni, Dynamism Of A Soccer Player
Personally, I find interest in forms, a lot. I think it is very receptive to different ideas and expressions people want to make, and also helps to advantageously supplement drawings as well.
Some of my influences are Brancusi, Bruce Quek, Marcel Duchamp (see new post) and Tay (see new post). I came to know Brancusi after we went for our London and Paris trip last year, and despite everyone else feeling so bored I was majorly fascinated. And for Bruce Quek, after I saw his work at the exhibition with Mr Chang's.
Brancusi's artworks
The Seal, Marble of 1924, c. 1925
Constantin Brancusi's exhibition at the Pompidou
(The one we went!)
Princess X, 1909-16, marble
Male Torso, 1917
Bird in Space, 1923
Sleeping Muse, 1910
Made of clean lines, well-smoothed and of intriguing forms just make the sculptures incredible, and enchanting. (Probably due to my love for shapes, lines and forms as well) Playing against reality and it's principles where sculptures require a larger base for support, some of Brancusi's sculptures uses a thin and narrow base, accompanied with a longitudinal upper sculpture part. But it is for all his works, that they appear to be placed out of context from a place where gravitational force and details are not present, lending these sculptures an unapproachable yet fascinating appeal.
See:http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/brancusi/
http://translate.google.com.au/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.centrepompidou.fr/education/ressources/ens-brancusi/ens-brancusi.htm&ei=1APvTPHzLYamcJnUjPoJ&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CB8Q7gEwAQ&prev=/search%3Fq%3DConstantin%2Bbrancusi%2Bat%2Bthe%2Bpompidou%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26prmd%3Do
Bruce Quek's artworks
Incidental Traces(2b)
Taken From: http://dreamborderlands.blogspot.com/2011/05/bruce-quek_28.html
Quek puts together varying clean lines, of different length, and angles, forming a geometric plane reduced to it's bare essentials. Lines not only do help to enhance the dimensionality of the plane, but when accompanied with the clean background, also helps to play with the positive-negative space concept.
Personally, I have a thing for minimalist and modernist designs. They fascinate me with their ability to provoke thoughts and wonder in their viewers. Also, making me in awe for their simplicity. Though intangible, it comparatively exudes a mysterious and serene effect as compared to other styles such as surrealism, which provides way more details and control over the work itself as well as what they hope their viewers would see their work as.
It's hard to list every single influence and inspiration that has helped shape my art style and the direction I am heading towards, because almost everything I chance upon in life has this incredible ability to influence me in a certain way, be it minute or in it's entirety.
I remember Mrstan once telling us that we should treat what we are trying to draw as simply lines, and not as their real form, so as to depict the most truthful observation we see and not what we believe it is. Since we often have the tendency to edit the lines we draw in belief that it will turn out realistic. This is certainly not the case.
Also, in my short learning journey, I learnt the importance of shapes. Not only that, they can be played with in various interesting manners, be expressed in many varying methods and help to convey entirely different styles and meaning.
A form is, "a shape of a thing of people", thereby, it is a crucial tool in aiding the artist in his depiction of things. Artists like Matisse, Picasso, Umberto Boccioni and David Hockney particularly like to have a say and control over the dictating the shape in their painting. Where Mattisse reduces the human figure into the bare essentials, with no edges or details rendered in it, while for Picasso, he fragments his forms into cubes and square planes, using geometric lines to flatten the picture surface.
Matisse, Circle of Life
Picasso, Girl Before A Mirror
Umberto Boccioni, Dynamism Of A Soccer Player
Personally, I find interest in forms, a lot. I think it is very receptive to different ideas and expressions people want to make, and also helps to advantageously supplement drawings as well.
Some of my influences are Brancusi, Bruce Quek, Marcel Duchamp (see new post) and Tay (see new post). I came to know Brancusi after we went for our London and Paris trip last year, and despite everyone else feeling so bored I was majorly fascinated. And for Bruce Quek, after I saw his work at the exhibition with Mr Chang's.
Brancusi's artworks
The Seal, Marble of 1924, c. 1925
Constantin Brancusi's exhibition at the Pompidou
(The one we went!)
Princess X, 1909-16, marble
Male Torso, 1917
Bird in Space, 1923
Sleeping Muse, 1910
Sculpture for the Blind, c.1920
Google Image on February 19 (Brancusi's 135th Birthday)
Made of clean lines, well-smoothed and of intriguing forms just make the sculptures incredible, and enchanting. (Probably due to my love for shapes, lines and forms as well) Playing against reality and it's principles where sculptures require a larger base for support, some of Brancusi's sculptures uses a thin and narrow base, accompanied with a longitudinal upper sculpture part. But it is for all his works, that they appear to be placed out of context from a place where gravitational force and details are not present, lending these sculptures an unapproachable yet fascinating appeal.
See:http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/brancusi/
http://translate.google.com.au/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.centrepompidou.fr/education/ressources/ens-brancusi/ens-brancusi.htm&ei=1APvTPHzLYamcJnUjPoJ&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CB8Q7gEwAQ&prev=/search%3Fq%3DConstantin%2Bbrancusi%2Bat%2Bthe%2Bpompidou%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26prmd%3Do
Bruce Quek's artworks
Incidental Traces(2b)
Taken From: http://dreamborderlands.blogspot.com/2011/05/bruce-quek_28.html
Quek puts together varying clean lines, of different length, and angles, forming a geometric plane reduced to it's bare essentials. Lines not only do help to enhance the dimensionality of the plane, but when accompanied with the clean background, also helps to play with the positive-negative space concept.
Personally, I have a thing for minimalist and modernist designs. They fascinate me with their ability to provoke thoughts and wonder in their viewers. Also, making me in awe for their simplicity. Though intangible, it comparatively exudes a mysterious and serene effect as compared to other styles such as surrealism, which provides way more details and control over the work itself as well as what they hope their viewers would see their work as.
It's hard to list every single influence and inspiration that has helped shape my art style and the direction I am heading towards, because almost everything I chance upon in life has this incredible ability to influence me in a certain way, be it minute or in it's entirety.
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