Doorzien – a Dutch word translated as “to see through.” In dutch art, doorzien referred to a painting that showed a view from one room into another, making the picture especially beautiful.
I wish I knew what movie it was, but some time long ago I was in a college film class. The instructor showed us a piece of a film noir in which the scene allowed the viewer to peer into a bedroom, seeing only a bit of a bedspread. The phone rang, a woman sat on the bed to answer. She shifted on the bed and bent over so that her face and part of her upper body was blocked by the doorway. She spoke in whispers so the words were just barely inaudible to the viewer. Wanting to hear what she was saying on the phone, the entire class leaned forward and to the right, as if leaning would somehow change our view of what was on the screen. It was at that exact moment, the moment 30 adults leaned hard to see around a doorway in a film, that it occurred to me how powerful it can be to give the viewer some of the information, but not all.
The observation drawing challenge today is to create a doorzien scene. For a little extra bonus challenge, show some but not all of the scene. Materials are artist’s choice. Shoe box dioramas are welcome.
In my last post I shared Auerbach’s study of ‘Bacchus and Ariadne’. This is another post about artists studying other artists. Did you know that Picasso did a series of studies in Velasquez’s Las Meninas? When we did modern studies of masterwork compositions in class, many students did one little study of a painting and figured …
[image_with_animation image_url=”7211″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100% The League’s own over-pleasant extremely-talented teenager of the quarter is Mahala Mrozek. For the sake of art, Mahala stalked her neighborhood chickens, followed them around like a chicken paparazzi. She also found some helpful images on mypetchicken.com. She used the pictures as references for a series of works for …
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Teaching an online class with the League this fall: Jonathan Harkham. Jonathan is another professional artist/instructor we found at the New York Studio School where he is an alumni and instructor. Currently under quarantine in his LA studio, Jonathan has shifted his attention from painting friends and live models to painting a series of 80’s …
30SAL Challenge: Doorzien Mystery
Doorzien – a Dutch word translated as “to see through.” In dutch art, doorzien referred to a painting that showed a view from one room into another, making the picture especially beautiful.
I wish I knew what movie it was, but some time long ago I was in a college film class. The instructor showed us a piece of a film noir in which the scene allowed the viewer to peer into a bedroom, seeing only a bit of a bedspread. The phone rang, a woman sat on the bed to answer. She shifted on the bed and bent over so that her face and part of her upper body was blocked by the doorway. She spoke in whispers so the words were just barely inaudible to the viewer. Wanting to hear what she was saying on the phone, the entire class leaned forward and to the right, as if leaning would somehow change our view of what was on the screen. It was at that exact moment, the moment 30 adults leaned hard to see around a doorway in a film, that it occurred to me how powerful it can be to give the viewer some of the information, but not all.
The observation drawing challenge today is to create a doorzien scene. For a little extra bonus challenge, show some but not all of the scene. Materials are artist’s choice. Shoe box dioramas are welcome.
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