I have started sketches for one of my paintings, and have been observing other artist's work to get ideas for the composition. I know that it will be of my friend at his piano, but I do not yet know that the crop will be like. It will either be head, shoulders and hands on the keyboard, or the full figure and most of the piano. I have also set up a meeting with my reader for next Tuesday morning, to talk about my research paper. I am not sure what my question or thesis will be yet, specifically. I do know that my paper will be a history of portraiture, but I think that there should be a more specific focus than that.
Week Two:
I bought two of the canvases which I will be using. I have compiled a list of 'artifacts' which I think will be useful to both my research paper and to my field work.
-A concise history of painting, from Giotto to Cézanne Harper's history of painting: the occidental tradition Columbia electronic encyclopedia: portraiture -Columbia electronic encyclopedia: evolution of portraiture -Picturing people (essay by marco livingstone) -Critical Issues in American Art: A Book of Readings Reflective Identity: A Study of Perception -Harpers history of painting -Lucian Freud: portraits Lucian Freud documentary -Alice Neel essay Art Talk: conversations with 15 woman artists -Picturing People essay David Hockney: the double portrait The Privet Face Of Public Art -Lucian Freud: Portraits -The Mask and the Face: the perception of physiognomic likeness in life and in art By E.H. Gombrich in Art, Perception and Reality
I have started sketches for one of my paintings, and have been observing other artist's work to get ideas for the composition. I know that it will be of my friend at his piano, but I do not yet know that the crop will be like. It will either be head, shoulders and hands on the keyboard, or the full figure and most of the piano. I have also set up a meeting with my reader for next Tuesday morning, to talk about my research paper. I am not sure what my question or thesis will be yet, specifically. I do know that my paper will be a history of portraiture, but I think that there should be a more specific focus than that.
Week Two:
I bought two of the canvases which I will be using.
I have compiled a list of 'artifacts' which I think will be useful to both my research paper and to my field work.
-A concise history of painting, from Giotto to Cézanne
Harper's history of painting: the occidental tradition
Columbia electronic encyclopedia: portraiture
-Columbia electronic encyclopedia: evolution of portraiture
-Picturing people (essay by marco livingstone)
-Critical Issues in American Art: A Book of Readings
Reflective Identity: A Study of Perception
-Harpers history of painting
-Lucian Freud: portraits
Lucian Freud documentary
-Alice Neel essay
Art Talk: conversations with 15 woman artists
-Picturing People essay
David Hockney: the double portrait
The Privet Face Of Public Art
-Lucian Freud: Portraits
-The Mask and the Face: the perception of physiognomic likeness in life and in art By E.H. Gombrich in Art, Perception and Reality