Contemporary Drawing: Key Concepts and Techniques

Contemporary Drawing: Key Concepts and Techniques

Drawing is experiencing an unparalleled surge in the art world. PassÃ© notions that once defined drawing as being a preparatory stage for painting or sculpture have long since been cast aside. Drawing is now fully recognized as its own art formâ€”in the biennials, art fairs, museum exhibitions, and beyond. Drawing has come of age.
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Contemporary artists are increasingly discovering that drawing is something unique and different from painting. It is an intense, sensitive, compelling, personal, and utterly direct art form, one with its own concepts, characteristics, and techniques. In addition, contemporary drawing is not governed by any particular imagery, but rather encompasses a variety of approaches, including realist, abstract, modernist, and post-modernist.
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Contemporary Drawing delves into the essential and far-reaching concepts of this medium, exploring surface, mark, space, composition, scale, materials, and intentionality in turn. Key techniques, such as using nature to induce marks and working with a checklist to determine a drawingâ€™s problems, are introduced throughout. Plus, an in-depth chapter examines a number of artists, such as William Kentridge and Gego, who are breaking traditional boundaries that separate one artistic discipline from another.

Lushly illustrated by a wide range of highly accomplished contemporary artists, Contemporary Drawing offers a broad perspective on this expansive and energized field of art.
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From the Hardcover edition.
Country USA
Manufacturer Watson-Guptill
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2014-01-07
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Watson-Guptill
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2014-01-07
Format	Kindle eBook

Contemporary Drawing: Key Concepts and Techniques

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