Category: Narratives of Place
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Alex Katz
Alex Katz website Biography Images Google You Tube videos Painting and printmaking (from Wikipedia) Katz’s paintings are defined by their flatness of colour and form, their economy of line, and their cool but seductive emotional detachment. A key source of inspiration is the woodcuts produced by Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro. Beginning in the late 1950s, Katz…
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Dutch landscapes
View over a Flat Landscape: Jan Josefsz van Goyen (oil on panel 1642) a moody painting of a completely flat landscape with cows, where the top two thirds of the frame is occupied by the grey clouds, but with subtle sunlight breaking through on the horizon line in the far distance. Landscape with a River Bank…
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Visual depth
Find places that can exaggerate different viewpoints. Focus on how you visualise depth and what strategies you use. Produce three drawings depicting a room in your house using: one-point two-point three-point perspective isometric projection the room’s own visual logic and deliberately breaking the rules a flat drawing. By definition these last three drawings will be less observed and…
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Colour theory for illustration
In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is – as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art. Albers Interaction of Color 1963 p1 Key colour issues in printmaking Tone is perceived first, then colours (yellow first), and then the image. This means that the…