Re-Appraising the Figure • Classes 1-8

Week #1: Course & materials review, safety discussion, introductions

This subject looks at the human form as a means through which to critique/understand and evaluate shifting perspectives while continuing to build skills in two and three-dimensional media (students to select either stream). The subject continues to emphasise the elements of visual language as expressive tools through which to investigate a range of sociopolitical issues.

Historical example/url: Leonardo Da Vinci, Study of proportions, from Vitruvius's, 'De Architectura', Pen and ink, 34 x 24cm Contemporary example/url: Student work:TBA Student work:TBA Previous student work: Gareth

Week #1 Reading Assignment: (in reader): Hall, Dunning and Descartes
Week #1 Visual Assignment: Locate images of hands and feet, could be drawings paintings or photographs, insert into sketchbook, in addition 2.5 hours of drawing of hands and feet
Historical example url: Rembrandt, detail, The Jewish Bride, oil on canvas, 1666 Contemporary example/url: Jerry Uelsmann, Untitled, [Hands, nude and antebellum house] , gelatin-silver print, 26 x 31cm, 1978 Historical example/url: Kathe Kollwitz,Sharpening the Scythe Student work: TBA Previous student work: Maria

Week #2: Measuring the figure including the use of plumb lines and gesture drawings to emphasize countours and negative spaces.
Historical example/url: Hogarth Contemporary example/url: contemporary artist: Kara Walker, Untitled, 1998, cut paper & adhesive on wall Previous student work: Laura C. Previous student work: Kirsten N. Previous student work: Tom R.

Week #2 Reading Assignment: (in reader), Descartes, R., " I think therefore I am ..."
Week #2 Visual Assignment: Utilizing in-class exercises draw for three hours in sketchbook
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Week #3: Gesture Drawing with emphasis placed on the three moveable masses - skull, rib or thoracic cage and the pelvis.
Historical example/url: Luca Cambiaso, 16thC., Assembly of Gods, pen and ink , watercolour, on paper, 18 x 35cm Contemporary example/url: Student work:TBA Previous student work: Sarah H. Previous student work: Kate R.

Week #3 Reading Assignment: (in reader), Lacan

Week #3 Visual Assignment: Complete a composition by the arrangement of 5-6 figures interacting in any number of ways, light the scene in a simple manner.
Historical example/url: Contemporary example/url: Student work: TBA Student work: TBA Previous student work: Kate R., 90 x 50cm, 2005

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contemporary artist: Rosslynd Piggott

historical reference: Otto Dix, Illusion act, 1922, etching with drypoint, 29 x 25cm

contemporary artist: Godwin Bradbeer

Class #4: Foreshortening in figure drawing, Superman poses and rendering of spheres

student examples: Michael P.

historical reference: Hans Baldung, 'Groom Bewitched'

Assignment #4: Self-portrait's, practice rendering techniques using graphite on white paper, or General's black and white pencils on toned paper

( Continue drawing figures in foreshortened poses, emphasizing underlying shapes and relationships. Light figure and render form tonally.

 

discover underlying shapes and relationships; squares, traingles,

student example: Michael P.

historical reference: Pierre Prudhon

contemporary artist: Mike Parr

Class #5: Measuring, gestures & more foreshortening

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Assignment #5: Continue to work on final proposal, research artists and mediums to be employed.
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Class #6: Portraiture - hour long demonstration by visiting artist

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student example: Kat C.

student example: Tom R.

Assignment #6: Continue work on final projects

student example:

historical reference: Kathe Kollowitz, Woman with dead child, lithograph

contemporary artist: Azlan McLennan, Untitled, vinyl digital print, 180 x 250cm, 2005

Class #7: Scale and Viewpoint

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contemporary artist: Jenny Saville, Hybrid, oil on canvas, 1997

Assignment #7: Practice juxtaposing figure of different scales and different viewpoints.
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Assignment #8: Artists left to right: Archimboldo Giuseppe, Winter, oil on canvas, 1573, Patricia Piccinini, The Young Family, silicone, acrylic, human hair, leather, timber, 80 x 150 x 110cm (irreg.), 2002-3

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Class #9:
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contemporary artist: Rick Amor, 'Man in Landscape', bronze, sizes variable, 2004

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