November 6
Theme #7: Interpretation

 

 

Midterm Grade Evaluation
Number of students earning grade
 
A
50 - 45 points
3
B
44 - 40 points
7
C
39 - 35 points
7
D
34 - 30 points
4
F
29 - 0 points
4
Highest Score
238
Lowest Score
15

 

 

 

 

 

 

Project
Instructions
Supplies
Interpretive drawing    
  You will be given an image to draw Student’s choice
  Your challenge is to Interpret the subject in your own, unique style  
  Be inventive and creative and give careful consideration to how you can turn this random subject into your own expression  
     
Grid drawing    
  Bring an object to class that is personally meaningful (the object should be relatively flat and not larger than 6” X 6”) Student's choice
  Crumple a piece of drawing paper into a ball  
  Lay your object with the crumpled paper behind it on the glass bed of a copy machine and photocopy it  
  Draw a grid made of cells that are 1” X 1” or larger on your drawing paper and your image  
  Draw the image, cell by cell  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Examples and Inspiration

 

 

Every artist’s style exhibits personal characteristics that convey a sense of the individual and their distinctiveness.  Drawing can be used as a vehicle for self expression and to examine individual ideas and emotions - a means of interpreting the world.

 

 

 
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.  Jane Avril.  c. 1893.  Left: photo, center: oil study on cardboard, right: color lithograph.
Preble, Duane, Sarah Preble and Patrick Frank. Artforms. Seventh ed. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2002.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Apple Leger

Paul Giovanopoulos.  Apple - Leger.  1985.  Mixed media on canvas.
Betti, Claudia and Teel Sale. Drawing: A Contemporary Approach. Fourth edition. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1980.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bois de Boulogne
Jacques-Henri Lartigue. Bois de Boulogne. 1911.
20th Century Photography Museum Ludwig Cologne. Taschen, Koln, 2005.
Giacomo Balla.  Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash.  1912.
Preble, Duane, Sarah Preble and Patrick Frank. Artforms. Seventh ed. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2002.

 

 

 

 

 

 
Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2
Thomas Eakins.  Jesse Godley Walking.  c. 1884.
Rosenblum, Naomi. A World History of Photography. Abbeville Press, New York. 1989.
Marcel Duchamp. Nude Descending A Staircase, No. 2. 1912.
Preble, Duane, Sarah Preble and Patrick Frank. Artforms. Seventh ed. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2002.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Type of Women
Les Demoiselles D'Avignon
Edmond Fortier. Type of Women, West Africa. 1906.
Pablo Picasso. Les Demoiselles D'Avignon. 1907.
Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History. Revised Second ed. Vol. 2. New York: Prentice Hall Inc., and Harry N. Abrams Inc., 2005.

 

 

 

 

 
Hokusai.  A Sudden Gust of Wind.  1831.
Sayre, Henry M. A World of Art. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2003.

Jeff Wall. A Sudden Gust of Wind (After Hokusai). 1993.
Riemschneider, Burkhard, and Uta Grosenick. Art at the Turn of the Millennium. Taschen. 1999.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Barbara Kruger.  Untitled (We Don't Need Another Hero).  1987.
Weintraub, Linda.  Art on the Edge and Over: Searching for Art's Meaning in Contemporary Society.  Litchfield, CT: Art Insights, Inc..  1996.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pope Innocent X
Study After Velazquez
Diego Velazquez. Pope Innocent X. 1650.
Francis Bacon. Study After Velazquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X. 1953.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Andy Warhol.  Marilyn Diptych.  1962.
Preble, Duane, Sarah Preble and Patrick Frank. Artforms. Seventh ed. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2002.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Grid Drawing

 

 

Your challenge here is to make as precise a rendering as possible, but still embed personal expression and individual perspective into the work.

 

 

 

Denise Johnson.  Grid Drawing.  1994.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Third Class Carriage

Honore Daumier. The Third-Class Carriage. c. 1862.
Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History. Revised Second ed. Vol. 2. New York: Prentice Hall Inc., and Harry N. Abrams Inc., 2005.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vija Celmins.  Untitled (Ocean) (Venice, California).  1970.  Pencil on paper.  14" X 18".
Sayre, Henry M. A World of Art. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2003.

 

 

Vija Celmins retrospective at the Hammer Museum
January 28 - April 22

 

 

 

 

 

 

Walton Ford.  Buddha Purnima.  1998.  Watercolor, gouache, ink and pencil on paper.
Katz, Alex.  Walton Ford: Tigers of Wrath, Horses of Instruction.  New York:  Harry N. Abrams, Inc.  2002.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Walton Ford.  Baba - B.G.  1997.  Watercolor. gouache. ink and pencil on paper.
Katz, Alex.  Walton Ford: Tigers of Wrath, Horses of Instruction.  New York:  Harry N. Abrams, Inc.  2002.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Walton Ford.  Benjamin's Emblem.  2000.
Katz, Alex.  Walton Ford: Tigers of Wrath, Horses of Instruction.  New York:  Harry N. Abrams, Inc.  2002.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interpretive Drawings

 

 

Ansel Adams.  Oak Tree, Snowstorm in Yosemite.  1948.
SFMOMA.  Picturing Modernity.  San Francisco: SFMOMA, 1998.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Diane Arbus. Child with a toy hand grenade. 1970.
Rubinfien, Leo. "Where Diane Arbus Went." Art in America. October, 2005. 65 - 77.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Harold Edgerton. Firing an Antique Revolver. 1936.
Hirsch, Robert. Seizing the Light: A History of Photography. Boston: McGraw Hill, 2000.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edward Weston. Nude. 1936.
20th Century Photography Museum Ludwig Cologne. Taschen, Koln, 2005.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jeff Koons.  Rabbit.  1986.
Fineberg, Jonathan. Art Since 1940: Strategies of Being. Second edition. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2000.