Nature or Science

For our first assignment our topic has to be something form Nature or Science. Both I find to be very broad areas to narrow down and find something that interests me to create a piece. I am torn between the two but here is what interests me in each.

In nature flowers have always been of great interest in their tones and colors and what kind of emotion that they can provoke. If I were to go in this direction I am definitely influenced by Georgia O'Keefe and her abstraction of the flower, but I would also like to work on conveying an emotion with the use of the flower.

As for science, I am very interested in human movement and kinesiology kind of things. I am leaning more towards this approach for the assignment. 

When thinking about movement of the human body right away legs and feet come to mind as a main form of movement. Everyone has a different stride, a different way of walking, and with different movements the foot strikes differently. I would like to look more into foot prints through different movement and actions and different ways of creating them. 

Here are some different artists that I am doing to draw some influences from for this project:

Ilkido Kalapacs

Albert Normandin

Miriam Perez

Valerio Doval

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What is Drawing?

In Thursday's class we got together in our groups and talked about the following:

What drawings have been used for in the past?

Medical purposes

Story telling

Memorializing things

Communication-Symbols

Language

Personal enjoyment

Maps

Construction-Blue prints

Rituals

Decorations

Protest

Records-recording territory

Diagrams

To figure something out

Instruction

Compare and contrast how they are used in the present

Objects and media are not the same

Drawings are now in different forms

How each of us have encountered drawing as a viewer

Intimidating-skill level

Inspiring

New ideas

Challenging

Your view is going to depend on

Sketchbook

Can always keep drawing, need to set final point

How we have experienced drawing as a maker of art

More ideas-Inspirations

Technique

Process

Reference point

Rough draft

Critical

Level of relate ability with other artists

The more you see of other artists the better you own work will become

When has drawing been most interesting?

Art History-more personal depth

High School

Early years

What should drawing be for/how should it function?

Practical purposes

Medical

Communication

Story telling

Thought provoking

For the Artist