Method: Make a drawing that realtes to its environment in a way that creates and interesting dynamic between the artwork and the space around it. Think about ways that drawings could take part in a kind of dialogue with the space they inhabit. Text might be one way, or drawn object in partnership with its real world equivalent. A drawing of flowers might be positioned behind a vase. A drawing might be used to ‘join up’ the view between two windows.
Reflection on Pierrete Bloch and Edward Krasinski
https://galerie-karsten-greve.com/en
http://www.artspace.com/pierrette-bloch
Pierrete Bloch was a Swiss French artist born in 1928 and considered one of the most renowed artist of Post-war Abstraction. She used materials such as ink, charcoal, pencil, mesh and horse hair. The description of her using ‘poor material’ could be the fact that her work is unpretentious, transmiting only the pure essence of her artistic endeveaours achieving rhythm, fluidity and simplicity. The term ‘poor’ suits her work as in modest. The choice of black and white and repetition, continuity of lines and forms depicting space and time were explored in various unique ways with materials such as horse hair,creating linear drawing or sculptures. The use of mesh on canvas gave texture and weight to one of her art pieces. Her choice of materials lend to her subject the lines and natural shape.Bloch just let the material evolved with little or no intervention in the process. Her action seems to let the material act itself and she just respond to how it appeared by applying less or more pressure when using ink, charcoal or pencil to repeat forms, shapes or lines that surged as in a dialogue like a dance or music. Her gestural creativity and free expression resulted in powerful but soft pieces, almost as if it is writing art . As an admirer of Cy Tombly’s work, Pierrete Bloch’s work brings me the similar feeling of spontaneity, simplicity, innocence and affirmation in her work.
Edward Krasinski (2001) ‘Untitled ‘ – TATE ( acessed in January 2020) at: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/krasinski-untitled-t12558
Untitled – Liverpool Tate in 2001 by Edward Krasinski
Edward Krasinski was a Polish artist born in 1925. He was also another post-war conceptual artist. Krasinski started his career as an Illustrator and after marrying an art critic he decided to dedicate himself fully to art. He started sculpultures, simple, minimalistic ones. In August 1969 he started his installations with the ‘blue tape’ and it became his trademark. He attached it on everything on his way from furnitures to places and paintings. He never had a clear explanation of the meaning for the blue tape, he let it explained itself since it became part of his installations. I think It could be related to ‘time line’, ‘continuity’ to blue veins? The viewers can decide it.
Maman sculpture at wikipedia accessed on January 2020 at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maman_(sculpture)
Louise Bourgeois, French -American artist born in 1911.Borgeois is known for her many sculptures, one of the biggest called Maman, measuring 30ft high and 33ft wide. Her family worked with tapestry hence the symbology of a spider representing her mother as well as meaning nurturing and protective. Borgeois always explored a variety of themes such as : domesticity and the family, sexuality and the body, death and the unconscious . The momument Maman started in 1947 as a series of ink and charcoal drawings and became a sculputure in 1996. Like most of Borgeois sculputures, they all started as sketches/drawings before becaming a 3D shaped pieces.
Contextual focus point : Emily Kame Kngwarreye
Emily Kame Kngwarreye (2014) women’s archive project at: http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0669b.htm ( accessed on January 2020)
My country – 1994 by Emily Kame Kngwarreye
Yam multi colour – 1995 by Emily Kame Kngwarreye
Emily Kame was an indigenous Australia painter born in 1910 in the community of Utopia in the Northern Territory. She only became famous by the time she was 80 years old. During her very short carrer as an artist, she changed her style many times. From small to bigger dots, lines,patterns and sizes. Her work is organic and cultural. It is part of her identity in her community. The use of the root ‘Yam” as theme in many of her paintings shows her connection to her people and how meaningful Yam was to them. Emily painted with her heart and soul, her work is intriguing, colourful and at the same time very harmonic. The use of black background in most of her work creates a sense of dimension almost in 3D perspective. The repetition of lines and dots are continuous as in life source of time, a time that keeps going, no ends, no drama or extreme changes in mark making. It is consistent and drags the viewer attention to wonder over it again and again. There is a fine line between her work being drawing or paintings. In my opinion they are more of paintings because of the tools she use to do it and the non planned, on the go approach, similar to Jackson Pollock, with emotional flow and letting the material works its own ways.
Reflection: The importance of place and belonging for you in your own work.
Opposite than Emily Kame, I never had consistency or cultural strength in life. I have always wanted to draw and paint as a child and was constantly pulled away from it with the affirmation that Art and being an artist could only be a hobby. I stopped drawing during my 20′ and 30′, trying to be interested in something else that would help me have a career and make money. I was brought up in a beautiful country – Brasil , with a lively and warm culture but at home I was hightly influenced by the Japanese culture. Sense of belonging is not something easy for me to define. I feel torn between the two cultures. Most of my adult life was far from my home country and now as an adult, trying to become an artist I still struggle finding my voice in Art. I have wanted to be a children’s book illustrator for so many years and it didn’t happen. I made some money being commissioned for portraits but I never had any passion for doing it. Since I start this course I have learned so much and there are so many things, styles and techniques I like but it is still not defined in my own work. Through the PP I am trying to come out with something more consistent and using my strenghts to achieve it. I definitely like bright, bold colours. I like simple but I enjoy messy and lose mark making as well. Drawing my surroundings and everyday subjects/objects I interact with is what most interest me at the moment. I think place is more important to me than belonging at the moment.
Artkat Investigating Drawing 