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Drawing portfolio explained
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- 3. -Section I: Quality(Selected Works) 5 actual drawings 18”x 24” or smaller -Section II: Concentration (Sustained Investigation) 12 images -Section III: Breadth (Range of Approaches) 12 images The AP Studio Art Drawing Portfolio is divided into three sections.
- 4. “It’s not whatyou look at that matters, it’s what you see.” Henry David Thoreau David Kapp “Light From East”
- 5. The Drawing Portfoliois designed to address a wide range of approaches and media.
- 6. DRAWING ISSUES -Line quality -Lightand shade -Rendering of form -Composition -Surface manipulation -Illusion of depth -Mark making can be addressed through…
- 7. … a varietyof means, -Drawing -Painting -Printmaking -Mixed Media -Collage -etc. Sergio Garval “El Puente” oil on canvas 44x60”
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- 10. AP student workacrylic 18x18” Observational
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- 12. AP student workacrylic 18x24” Abstract
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- 14. AP student workmixed media 6x14” Inventive
- 15. The range ofmarks used to make drawings, the arrangement of the marks and the materials used to make the marks are endless. Willem deKooning
- 16. David Hockney pen& ink Line quality
- 17. Broken Fingaz muralsection-Amsterdam acrylic Line
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- 21. Keith Haring Line (lookat Scale) notebook sketch app. 4”x 6” tarp painting 72”x 72”
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- 24. Amy Casey- oil onboard Line
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- 26. Light and shade NicolaiFechin
- 27. AP student work-graphite Lightand shade
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- 30. Rendering of form JennySaville-”Fulcrum” oil 103x193”
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- 35. AP student work-chalkpastel Rendering of form
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- 40. Delacroix Van Gogh DegasGauguin Surface manipulation
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- 46. AP student work-lino print 9x12” Surface manipulation
- 47. Vladimir Zimakov- lino blockprint Surface manipulation
- 48. AP student work Surfacemanipulation
- 49. Illusion of depth JulieMehrutu - Stadia I
- 50. Ben Grasso oilon canvas Illusion of Depth
- 51. AP student workacrylic 18x18”
- 52. AP student workgraphite 10x14” Illusion of Depth
- 53. AP student workacrylic 18x18” Illusion of Depth
- 54. Mark making William Kentridgeink on pages
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- 56. Etsuko Ichikawa -scorched surface Mark making
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- 60. There’s more thanone way to execute an idea…
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- 62. AP student work-acrylic on board 18x24”
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- 69. Any work submittedin the drawing portfolio that incorporates digital or photographic processes must address DRAWING ISSUES!
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Editor's Notes
- #3 I’ve been an artist for years and last year I heard, for the first time, someone say “the first four lines of any drawing begin with the picture plane”. The picture plane is usually the first consideration when beginning a painting or drawing. These two artists with differing visions display energy and gestural mark making within the picture plane.
- #4 The AP Studio Art Drawing Portfolio is divided into three sections. Section I- Quality-these are five actual works that best demonstrate the student’s understanding of and engagement with drawing. They must be 18x24 inches or less. Section II- Concentration-Is a sustained investigation. This body of work should describe an in-depth exploration of a particular drawing concern. This should be 12 images which could include detailed images. There is a writing component to this section that is not scored but should be read to help the reader understand the students’ process. In the very near future, there will be more emphasis on documenting process.
- #5 David Kapp works in an expressive style depicting city life.
- #10 You may remember this piece from the 2D Design presentation. Now you need to make an adjustment and put your Drawing Portfolio glasses on.
- #14 Lauren DiCioccio Her work investigates the physical beauty of common mass-produced objects as they approach obsolescence, most recently, the newspaper. On the left you see embroidered currency. On the right is an embroidered slide transparency.
- #15 These are Barbie heads attached to a wooden board where an anorexic Barbie body is drawn on it.
- #18 Mural in Amsterdam
- #19 Yosuke Goda creates living, breathing rooms that swallow human beings. Armed with black markers, Goda has no mercy for the surrounding white walls, floor, and ceiling.
- #20 The master-drawing
- #22 The images we will see on our computer screen during the reading are depicting artwork that may vary greatly in scale. It may be helpful to look at sizes! You may not have the benefit of something that helps determine scale such as the wire of the spiral notebook.
- #24 http://www.heikeweber.net/paperworks_en.html
- #25 Amy Casey, a Cleveland artist depicts houses, buildings and cities suspended and intertwined. Her highly detailed line work and images of roads draw you in and move you through the work.
- #26 Joe Coleman has an obsessive compulsion about painting. He is a self taught artist and a master storyteller. His small paint strokes are linear marks. "If P. T. Barnum had hired Breughel or Bosch to paint sideshow banners they might have resembled the art of Joe Coleman."-- John Strausbaugh, The New York Times .
- #27 Nicolai Fechin is a master of mixing line and tone.
- #29 During the war, Morandi's still lifes became more reduced in their compositional elements and purer in form.
- #30 Subtle, sensitive rendering of form mixed with seductive line quality.
- #33 The surrealist and wife to Max Ernst
- #35 Paula Rego is a Portuguese and British artist who is well known for her paintings and prints based on storybooks. Her work often reflects an aggressive feminism,
- #37 This painting of “Persephone” by Thomas Hart Benton shows a stylized depiction of a recast Greek myth. Benton fills the picture plane with rich texture, color and clues relating to the myth. In the 1930’s this painting was jokingly called “one of the great works of American pornography”. It is now considered the “Mona Lisa” of Kansas City. A reminder to the readers is that there is no preferred or unacceptable style or content.
- #39 Emphasizing negative space…viewers are invited to peer upon the subjects as if catching a glimpse of something they aren't supposed to see. In the intimate moments, we watch as young girls investigate who they are both as individuals and within a larger group.
- #41 These are the palettes of famous artist’s Delacroix, Van Gogh, Degas and Gauguin. There are many ways to show texture in a piece. Not only will you see actual texture but implied texture is often prominent. Process informs artistic choice.
- #42 Ray Turner paints expressive portraits on glass panels.
- #43 Nicola Samori paints like a Baroque master before partially destroying them again by intervening with a brush, palette knife, or scalpel exposing color below the skin of paint.
- #44 Wangechi Mutu uses collage, ink, watercolor, salt and alcohol, manipulating the surface to achieve a variety of textures.
- #45 Rex Ray utilizes painted and printed cut paper to create a retro feel to his work.
- #46 Elizabeth Catlett’s repetitive cuts in the linoleum block create a texture yearning to be touched.
- #49 These are successful pieces of work because the student is exploring repetition, surface and patterning in her prints.
- #50 Julie Mehretu makes large-scale, gestural paintings that are built up through layers of acrylic paint on canvas overlaid with mark-making using pencil, pen, ink and thick streams of paint. Mehretu’s work conveys a layering and compression of time, space and place and a collapse of art historical references, from the dynamism of the Italian Futurists and the geometric abstraction of Malevich to the enveloping scale of Abstract Expressionist color field painting..
- #51 Ben Grasso’s exploding structures create a three dimensional sense of depth.
- #53 Linear perspective and depth are apparent in this work. This student has appropriated a reference photo but his voice is beyond emerging.
- #55 William Kentridge is best known for his prints, drawings and animated films. The films are constructed by filming a drawing, making erasures and changes, and filming it again. He continues this process meticulously, giving each change to the drawing a quarter of a second to two seconds' screen time. A single drawing will be altered and filmed this way until the end of a scene.
- #56 Alberto Giacometti’s marks depict a great sense of space.
- #57 This is the work of Etsuko Ichikawa. Her "pyrographs," as she calls them, are made by painting with the fire and smoke of hot glass.
- #58 With this extraordinary project called “Emptying Gestures” Heather Hansen experimented with kinetic drawing. It’s a technique where the artist uses her own body to illustrate action on a two-dimensional surface rather than using paintbrushes. Her goal was to download her movement directly onto paper, emptying gestures from one to another by creating something incredible in the process.
- #59 Directional lines
- #60 Be prepared. Believe it or not, this is NOT the worst thing you will see.
- #61 Although within the drawing portfolio, the use of materials is unlimited, some pieces may lack technical competence in the exploration of materials and subject matter.
- #62 You will see many examples of anime in the next few days. Please rely on your internalization of the rubric to help you make informed evaluations.
- #63 Although we know the student didn’t take the photo of Elvis, the artist has properly used appropriation to create an original piece. The artist has even employed using “non-traditional art materials”, glitter and sequins, which seems to be appropriate in this context.
- #64 This student is inspired by cartooning but has created an original character in their concentration.
- #65 Even though this could be considered “Fantasy art”, it is rich with texture, it has strong student voice and a balanced composition.
- #66 Kent Williams got his start as a comic book illustrator and has now evolved into a fine artist, selling his large works in contemporary galleries. Notice the merging/blurring of figure ground.
- #67 Animals are common themes you will see in the reading but this piece lacks a student voice, a dynamic composition and mastery of media.
- #68 This student has used their own reference photo and has explored the picture place in both composition and surface texture.
- #70 Using an anolog drawing device is an increasingly popular medium. Computers and drawing tablets are the new graphite and charcoal. Please remember to look for the drawing issues when evaluating the drawing portfolio.
- #71 This drawing was done on an Ipad freehand. No photos were used in the creation of this piece. Note the sensitive reflected color on the back of the figure and the nuances in the atmospheric perspective.
- #72 These drawings were created on an ipad by tracing over original photo references. Color was then dropped into the shapes.
- #73 The tiny black dots connecting all of the candy-hued lines are huge flocks of starlings in flight. She uses gouache and acrylic paint to connect the birds, creating geometric sculptures in the sky.
- #74 Rainer worked on photographs of Greek sculptures and of mummies, death-masks and corpses.
- #75 This is a photograph that has had paint applied so as to emulate the sensation of a wave.
- #76 This is Acetate printed with drawings curled inside an acrylic model. On the right Tribe, is exploring these ideas though the use of the Multi Head embroidery machine, which she uses to stitch out her architectural drawings on fabric.
- #77 These are pens that extrude plastic by first heating and then cooling the material. The portraits are two dimensional. The cup and saucer engages three dimensional space and asks the question, is it a drawing of a cup or a cup?
- #79 In closing, we need to remember why we are here. These pieces were created by young artists.
- #80 These are Students who are learning how to put the “work” in artwork. After 8 hours of reading digital imagery, we all need to be reminded, there’s a human behind the work.
- #81 Think positive. Give the students the benefit of the doubt.
- #82 Please be careful in your evening activities. These posters have been seen all around town. The police did wrestle the perpetrator to the ground though.