Drawing and Contemporary art practice

Barry McGee Mural on Houston and Bowery

Here are some links to more work by artists whose drawings I will be showing in class this week:

• Barry McGee on Art21, PBS
• Amy Sillman, A Shape that Stands up and Listens: New Drawings, 2012
• Bruno Fazzolari, Lamp Black: ink on magazine pages, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, 2013
• Takashi Murakami, Super Nova can be seen at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
• Gehrard Richter drawings
• Jean-Michel Basquiat at the Gagosian Gallery: Inner Demons, Exorcised With Paint, New York Times review, February 21, 2013

Invisible Man

< Click on image to view the De Young Museum page about this self-portrait by Chuck Close. Scroll to the bottom of that page to view a video of Close on The Colbert Report.

Jean-Francois Millet self-portrait (c.1850)

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Leonardo da Vinci self-portrait (c.1512)

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Applications of Linear Perspective

For more history of Linear Perspective, click here.

The (Re)discovery of Linear Perspective

For a historical take on Linear Perspective and a video discussing Brunelleschi’s experiment, see this page on the Smarthistory website.

The Potato Eaters, 1885

Vincent Van Gogh, The Potato Eaters, lithograph, 1885 ___ image source

Van Gogh: Portrait of the Postman 1888

Vija Celmins drawings

Ocean Surface, 2006 by Vija Celmins from the Smithsonian

See Vija Celmins: A Drawings Retrospective.

See a Video of Vija Celmins on Art21.

Clustering lines: Da Vinci’s notebooks

Study this drawing in relation to our upcoming ‘clustering lines’ exercises. There was an article about Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks published this weekend in the Guardian. The notebooks have been fully digitized and made available online by the British Library in London.