Life Drawing 07 - Composition

 Brief

Composition


Alan Watts on Ma Yuan landscape paintings – 

“One of the most striking features of the sung landscape, as of sung as a whole, is the relative emptiness of the picture, an emptiness which appears however, to be part of the painting and not just unpainted background. By filling in just one corner the artist makes the whole area of the picture alive. Ma Yuan was a master of this technique that amounts almost to painting by not painting”


Today we are looking at composition as the central idea in our drawings. We will look at what makes an interesting composition and how we can plan this before the drawing starts. 



The class is useful for all levels of ability. 


As usual we will start with guided warm ups and the basic ideas but the rest of the class will be free for you to explore as you wish, you can explore something from a previous class or follow instruction.


Required materials and tools


Drawing materials, charcoal, graphite, ink, pastels – anything else you might want to try. 


 



Alice Neel





WEDNESDAY DEMO – 


Ideas from other places - Dancing, film, philosophy, culture, music... 


Movement as drawing - Ashanti Harris walking performance





Ref. 


Alice Neel

Alan Watts

Marcel Duchamp

Henri Matisse 

Johannes Vermeer

Norman Mclaren

Oscar Schlemmer

Francisco Goya

Paul Guiragossian




Johannes Vermeer - Woman with Balance

Henri Matisse - Large Reclining Nude

Marcel Duchamp - Nude Descending a Staircase


Paul Guiragossian



Francisco Goya - The Dog




Oscar Schlemmer - Triadic Ballet





Norman Mclaren - Pas de Deux





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