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| The Figure as Transient Form |
| ....with Artist Alan Tulloch |
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| An Online Connection for the Drawing Workshop, "The Figure as Transient Form" at ARTofficial 2004 |
| "Shade" - Alan Tulloch, Pencil on Paper 1997 |
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| The Figure as Transient Form |
| Traditionally, the human figure was represented as a static form, using line as an 'official medium'. Freezing the figure had philosophical relevance in pre-modern art periods, but art movements such as Cubism and Futurism aimed to treat the figure as a more fluid form. In spite of this, Post-Modernism's favor for appropriation has caused figure representation to continue as a line-dominated practice. The workshop, "The Figure as Transient Form", will encourage students to develop ways to 're-pict' the figure as a 'transient form', not subject to official views but responsive to changing art theories (and the simple fact that bodies move). Various techniques will be explored for metaphoric/representational possibilities. The figure will be drawn to explore 'slippages of meaning' rather than to simply 'dictate a truth'. |
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