From Flesh to Poetry: “The nude is not the subject of subject of art, but a form of art.” So wrote Kenneth Clark, who distinguished in his great 1956 book “The Nude” between a naked body — that is, one merely caught without clothes on — and a nude, “the most complete example of the transmutation of matter into form.” I just love this quote. It’s a beautiful definition of the nude art form.
I am going to be a bit of a tease here and I am not necessarily going to post everything here or on my website. So you will have to come to see them 😉 I am very excited about working larger scale again. I am drawing at a mile a minute in my visual diary and am picking canvasses to fit the pieces perfectly.
Art’s elders still drawing life from a pad | The Arts | The Australian: DOYENS of Australian art Charles Blackman and Judy Cassab might be a ripe old age – with two OBEs, an AO and two Archibald prizes between them – but they still get a thrill sitting down with sketch pads, pencils and a nude model…. Many people see life drawing as something to do as a student, purely a learning exercise, but it’s great to hear that even the best artists still use and enjoy life drawing. I’d pay to be in on one of those sessions!
You know how I said I wasn’t going to do another show until i had build a bigger body of work?… Sometimes, when fate bashes down your door you just have to grab it with both hands.Northcote in September is home to the High Vibes Festival…. High St Northcote is also home to Vanguard Gallery, Who contacted me the other day to see if I was able to do a show from the 19th of September through to the 7th of October.
I have taken charge of it, and I think it has lent power and understanding in my dealings so far…. I will be writing the next two posts very soon. Thankyou all for putting up with the previous posts, long though they were, Putting them up here has given me the impetus to think everything through and stick to my goals.
because, rather than sticking to conventional modalities, subjects and chords they create a unique and unexpected version of a conventional art form and a new experience. The clashing chords, unexpected harmonies and lyrics can often make an uncomfortable listening experience for the average listener and don’t necessarily appeal to everyone but these compositions, to me, are an art form in themselves rather than just entertainment…. When you hear a discordant note or choral piece and you feel the goosebumps rise on your flesh, that is the art working it’s way in. When you see a catwalk model with an unconventional face, who is a painting rather than a blank canvas, then we notice the uniqueness and feel drawn to it.
With something like this I will carve the form over and over again, smoothing it back and doing it again. sometimes I will get a section right and be able to leave it, but mostly the interrelations of the lines mean I frequently will need to do the entire figure over. The key frustration of this is that I might have a line that is good, but I will seek more from it and will erase it in the hopes that the next one will be perfect.
Maybe it’s the cool colors 😉 I like the cross hatching around the face and under the bust on the outside and the way the hair turned out…. Another thing I learned from the group show was that I wasn’t playing around enough I got a little stuck on what I thought I should do rather than going with the flow…. I have a show theme in mind, but mostly it will evolve over time rather than being pushed.
It is so exciting to see the image emerge from nothing but straight lines and the mood change with different color additions. This technique is great for loosening up and relaxing as well as seeing the disparate lines that make up an image…. Layering the colors and lines more, creating more tonal differentiation and more background work, taking it to a more complete work.
Step 3 in my blog project is where we start actually exploring what I want. We’ve established the type of people who inspire me and who I am, Now we need to work out what I really want from myself and my career.
Jennie's Palette 