Yesterday I posted my sketches; some fun ideas we are exploring in “Abstracting the Image” on Thursdays. Each week we’re taking a masterwork and exploring it with approaches inspired by contemporary abstract painters. The purpose of this exercise is to be able to lean on, and learn from the composition of the masterwork, while exploring a variety of ways to wonder within it, and make new marks. This is a way to get us off of the impulse to copy a “perfect” image (whether it’s a masterwork or our own photograph), while still benefiting from the structure. It gives us a place to start, and a direction to start walking.
Here are some fabulous studies by some people at the League:
Above: Pontormo’s composition by Lendy Hensley, in the style of Elaine de Kooning (below)
Above: Pontormo’s composition by Hannah DeBerg, in the style of Kandinsky (below)
Above: Pontormo’s composition by Marina Vogman, in the style of Carmen Herrera (below)Above: Pontormo’s composition by Chris Harvey, in the style of Donald Judd (below)
From Wikipedia: Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese: 歌川 広重), also Andō Hiroshige (Japanese: 安藤 広重; 1797 – 12 October 1858), was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, considered the last great master of that tradition. …
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Pontormo, Student Sketches
Yesterday I posted my sketches; some fun ideas we are exploring in “Abstracting the Image” on Thursdays. Each week we’re taking a masterwork and exploring it with approaches inspired by contemporary abstract painters. The purpose of this exercise is to be able to lean on, and learn from the composition of the masterwork, while exploring a variety of ways to wonder within it, and make new marks. This is a way to get us off of the impulse to copy a “perfect” image (whether it’s a masterwork or our own photograph), while still benefiting from the structure. It gives us a place to start, and a direction to start walking.
Here are some fabulous studies by some people at the League:
We’ve posted an invitation to jump into the Thursday class with us. This 6 week session starts next week. If you register early today, you could even attend today’s session for free! Day or evening classes available.
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