A lot of V. Note ideas wither because they are just one little thought or artwork, and I don’t have it in me to flush them out into a complete chapter. I’ve been thinking I should post more of these single notes. Here’s one: an automatic writing by Bruno Leyval.
Automatic Writing/Drawing: writing or drawing produced without conscious intention
The part of this I’m ignorant of, the bit that makes my head tilt here, is the typing above the signature. I found this picture on the internet, and I can’t figure out if this is part of the piece or not. It adds a stamp of officialness to the scribbles, and again to the only slightly more intentional scrib-signature, and I notice the placement very nicely breaking the right side boundary, but is the typing part of the piece? Or a label added for instruction? Something else? I imagine the piece without the typing, and I don’t like it as much. It really does make the signature more of a legitimate and serious giggle.
Take a class with SAL – anywhere! Edward Hopper is one of the greatest American painters of the 20th century, having influence over photography and cinema as well as painting. His direct and realist paintings depicted light and shadow, and solitude in daily contemporary life. But what influences did Hopper have? Rejecting the style of …
I’m teaching two new figure sculpture classes starting April 14. One is sculpting with wax and polymer clay on armature. The other is Colorful Clay Busts. To get the party started in my Colorful Clay Busts course, we’re going to practice some fundamental clay sculpting techniques. For inspiration, I collected some figurative shapes that really …
Bee-Pin by David Dodge Lewis (1997). Vitreograph on paper, edition of 30. Photo courtesy of the Littleton Collection. Vitreography is a printmaking technique that uses a thick glass matrix instead of the traditional matrices of metal, wood or stone. Sound interesting? You can make your first vitreograph next week! VitreographyTuesdays 6-10pmStarts Sept 23REGISTER TODAY!
This is day 6 of our 30 day creative challenge! To learn more about this 30SAL challenge, click here. Take figures from the painting on the left and put them into the room on the right. Feel free to change space in the composition, and alter figures as you prefer. Artwork 1: Mary Magdalene Healing the …
Automatic writing by Bruno Leyval
A lot of V. Note ideas wither because they are just one little thought or artwork, and I don’t have it in me to flush them out into a complete chapter. I’ve been thinking I should post more of these single notes. Here’s one: an automatic writing by Bruno Leyval.
Automatic Writing/Drawing: writing or drawing produced without conscious intention
The part of this I’m ignorant of, the bit that makes my head tilt here, is the typing above the signature. I found this picture on the internet, and I can’t figure out if this is part of the piece or not. It adds a stamp of officialness to the scribbles, and again to the only slightly more intentional scrib-signature, and I notice the placement very nicely breaking the right side boundary, but is the typing part of the piece? Or a label added for instruction? Something else? I imagine the piece without the typing, and I don’t like it as much. It really does make the signature more of a legitimate and serious giggle.
Other artists that come to mind: Cy Twombly, Mark Tobey, André Masson, Henri Michaux
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