Igor Mitoraj
Dormiente (Sleeper)
2002

This was exhibited at ARTSTAGE Singapore. I think this is a lot like my style of drawing. Sharon also told me so, citing how I like to draw Grecian-like guys' faces from my imagination when we saw this work at the exhibition. However, I'd just like to clarify that I don't just always draw Grecian-looking guys.













Igor Oleinikov
Kunstrauber (Art Thief)
2011

This artwork also struck a great impact on me. It was one of the guiding factors (along with Chuck Close) that inspired me to produce my coursework on the human form being depicted realistically.

Sharon told me that this was a lot like my style of art. I just was very much attracted to this piece, staring at it for a long time.

It is not a perfect face, not an idealistic Golden-Ratio face as the ancient Greeks would have liked it; it has its flaws and imperfections, with the frown lines and the sunken eyes peering out from behind shadows and the eye bags. I admired how it was so impactful, so unfinished, yet so striking - there was a tinge of color that appeared to be spreading across his forehead in the shadows. He looks like an apparition of light, like a faraway dream, all solemnity, like a twist in the plot of LOST. The blurred sides of his face makes him look like he is receding into the light, or swallowed up by it.

I wanted very much to do something like this for coursework - an impactful view of someone, a face, looking up into the viewer's eyes. I did incorporate that idea into my coursework.

 
 by Steve Caplin

I really, really want to try sculpting realistically sometime in the future - soon.

These artworks inspire me because of the melodramatic poses and realistic contours - all of which contribute to very striking, emotional and thought-provoking pieces of surrealistic artwork.

I think in the current world in which we live (filled with whimsical, light artworks), there needs to be some artworks which actually evoke a poignant emotion in the viewer to lend the art scene some gravity. Thank goodness art has both.

I could use such inspiration in my works by producing very realistic and poignant artworks. I think I could learn how to depict human figures in my artworks in positions that evoke a stronger emotion in the viewer.

DanteCyberMan
reblogged from Tumblr

This is exactly what I need right now for my coursework.

I'm seeking to depict waves, water around the human figure, and I need that kind of reflection above. This is an inspiration for how I should paint some parts of the water.

 (from hollyleonardson on Tumblr)

A simple statement, in all its frivolity and minimalism, in one of the emerging cultures of this age serves as an absent-minded reminder that society has evolved way past the cares and troubles of the days of the pick and shovel.

To me, art is a constantly amassing monument of history that marks out and characterises the passage of time. What would we do without art?

bubbles

I think this would sit very well beside a photograph of a Goldsworthy piece on the basis of its being ephemeral.

Soap bubbles never looked more beautiful.

I think in a way portraits may not be ephemeral, but the instant that each portrait captures is. I'm saying this because I'm reflecting on paintings and portraits in relation to these pictures I found (credits to Tumblr). Pics taken from: http://www.lostateminor.com/2012/08/18/high-speed-photography-of-soap-bubbles/

Tauba Auerbach
Tauba Auerbach’s Static series explores the place of aesthetics as it contends with digital and analog media. These abstract works are digital prints of the analog phenomenon known as static: that visual output of “white noise” that we so quickly associate with the early days of television. Auerbach isolates and magnifies various static pictures to an artistic end, highlighting not only an aesthetic but also cultural tension between analog and digital forms.
 Are these really abstractions? We know, after all, that there is an image to be resolved behind the confusion. In any case, Auerbach is able to play on our familiarity with static – perhaps a gesture toward its threatened status in a digital age.
More Auerbach, including her beautiful Fold series on her website here. While you’re at it, you can learn about the science of static here, and even watch some here.
(All images sourced from Auerbach’s website).
- Erin Saunders

(reblogged from Tumblr)


I would love to try something digital but I'm no digital whiz kid.

Although I did a design for our choir concert earlier on this year. When Yiyuan told me I could use the computer in the mac lab, I didn't really know what to do and Yiyuan was like "Whaaaaaaaaaat" like I was some person who just emerged fresh from the 1950s or something. Here it is:


 

Did it using a Bamboo. Err actually to tell the truth I can't remember whether I even used the Bamboo; as I recall there were some problems with getting the macs to register the thing. Ah, technology -

Anyway, have to credit Sharon for helping me write the letters in because my handwriting was simply ____. (I don't know how to describe it, it just didn't fit the picture). And Svena helped me draw some eyelashes because she complained the girl didn't look feminine enough...

By the way this was inspired by Obama's picture which we found online. Because Obama's cool like that. (just kidding..) Then Sharon and I both thought of street art - stencil graffiti. So we decided to follow that black and white street style. Or classic. Depends on which you relate it to.

I actually gave her mussed up hair in a bid to make it more realistic, but Sharon said it wouldn't fit NY's image so I neatened it up a bit.

Drawing using technology is different, but still the same. The feeling is different. But the results can look like a scanned image of a drawing. Anyhow, I think technology is still awesome (: