ART/S for Meeting, Communicating, Sharing
What a pleasure it was to sketch the Hotel Ausonia Hungaria and its Art Nouveau features on the Lido of Venice! But above all, to have sketched as part of a group with the wonderful Venetian Urban Sketchers!
The bow of a gondola – Venice Lido – Hotel Ausonia – 0702026
In both the analysis of Albert Edelfelt’s work and that of Vincent van Gogh, a style of representation emerges that is linked to the technique employed.
An Analysis of the Works of Albert Edelfelt and Vincent van Gogh.
I created two drawings using watercolours and oil pastels during one of the courses I teach in Paris.
In both the analysis of Albert Edelfelt’s work and that of Vincent van Gogh, a style of representation emerges that is linked to the technique employed.
In the case of A. Edelfelt, the artist began with a graphite drawing, then moved on to watercolour – a transparent medium – before applying opaque touches. This is no easy technique, as one must take care not to apply too much colour to the lighter areas, so as not to obscure them.
In the case of Van Gogh, who used opaque oil paints, and in my own case, where I use opaque oil pastels we can see how the artist can add light colours by layering them over the tree-like mass created by darker colours.
The density of the paint is, in my view, the basis of the uniqueness and modernity of Vincent Van Gogh’s work.
GEORG BASELITZ at the POMPIDOU CENTRE – PARIS
2022
Drawing, indian ink and gel ên on paper (sketchbook)
14,5×20,7 cm
“Local self-reliance, decentralisation, sustainable future, social change, peace, job creation, land use, water use, community based innovation, renewable systems…”. In these dark times, I rediscover this beautiful, hopeful drawing by Robert Crumb. It was 1983, and Mr. Natural already knew which path to take.
© Robert Crumb – from Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/OFFICIALROBERTCRUMB
“In the early ’80’s, Crumb used to volunteer for a local bi-monthly newspaper Winds of Change (out of Davis, California). His involvement with the newspaper educated him about the important environmental issues at that time, which are, of course, still relevant. But he was way ahead of his time. Here’s a drawing he created of Mr. Natural in ’83.”*
My friend Christophe Austruy says it well, that the figure of the lion of St. Mark in Venice reflects a powerful and warlike character.
Venice’s political and military power (…). The traditional image we have of the lion is in profile, holding an open book. A beautiful, strong, muscular lion… . There are, however, many lions at rest or asleep, like the one sculpted by Canova in the Accademia galleries.
I, too, was inspired by this peaceful, but always alert, version in my sketchbook made at EHESS – Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales last year and which I am preparing for an edition.
It will be the theme of war and peace, so topical and dramatic, that will engage us for the next year of research. For my part, I will continue to experiment with my research model by drawing the images that we will be analysing together.
*Questo leone dormiente fa parte del progetto di monumento che poi fu realizzato in San Pietro a Roma.
Dettagli
Titolo: Monumento a Papa Clemente XIII – Leone Dormiente
Creatore: Antonio Canova
Data: 1784
Data di creazione: 1784
Materiale: gesso
*Image: Gypsotheca e Museo Antonio Canova
Here I have concluded, not without emotion but with great satisfaction, a year of exciting encounters where I was able to pass on my passion for art history and experiment with drawing techniques in a creative and participatory manner.
Here I have concluded, not without emotion but with great satisfaction, a year of exciting encounters where I was able to pass on my passion for art history and experiment with drawing techniques in a creative and participatory manner.
However, the conclusion of my art history courses is a goodbye until my return. There are many side projects that will involve me this summer, the animation of urban sketching workshops and travel sketchbooks, the preparation of an exhibition, experimentation with art books, urban sketching, travel sketchbooks, comics, and the refinement of communication consultancy for the constellation of associations dedicated to the defence of Venice. There will be no boredom!
IMAGINATION
Drawing on paper
retouching and computer colour
1024 x 1024 pixels
2025
IMAGINATION
Drawing on paper
retouching and computer colour
1024 x 1024 pixels
2025
Double experiment:
Start from a drawing made instinctively and give it a narrative form
Evaluate which visual path is produced by identifying dots produced by a background colour.
Workshop at the EHESS – École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales / Centre de Recherches Historiques – Paris
Organisé par Christophe Austruy (EHESS-CNRS, Centre de Recherches Historiques)
Giovanna Corazza (Università Ca’ Foscari – Venezia / University of Notre Dame, MSCA Fellow)
Maurice Aymard (EHESS/MSH) : Introduction
Jean-Charles Ducène : Venise chez les géographes arabes
Nathalie Bouloux : «Il primato di Venezia» dans les études géographiques aux XIVe et XVe siècles
Christophe Austruy
L’Arsenale Vecchio, l’Arsenale Novo e la Tana nella pianta di Fra’ Paolino.
Ipotesi sull’Arsenale di Venezia all’inizio del XIV secolo
Anna Pegoretti
A nord di Venezia: Dante cartografo e le Alpi centro-orientali
Theodore J. Cachey Jr.
Il cosmo di Dante: automappature ed esilio
On the occasion of the release of Nan Goldin’s film All the beauty and the bloodshed, I offer these drawings made during the screening at the Philharmonie de Paris in 2015, with music by the Tiger Lillies.
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The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, made between 1979 and 1986, is one of Nan Goldin’s earliest photographic series, but remains today, and rightly so, the best known of all her works. The slide show projected on a large screen is accompanied by the Tiger Lillies. A London musical trio, they are dark, provocative and blasphemous, grimacing with their Brechtian inspiration which fits perfectly with the images. The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is a masterpiece, an authentic chronicle of modern times.
“*
Nan Goldin, fotography
The Tiger Lillies
Martyn Jacques, Adrian Stout, Jonas Golland
* Source: Philharmonie de Paris
https://philharmoniedeparis.fr/fr/activite/spectacle/16677-nan-goldin-tiger-lillies
From Paris to Padua
the 18th february of 2023
18 febbraio 2023
It’s not over, quite the contrary. After the wonderful Festival delle Arti Giudecca, Sacca Fisola that will forever remain in my heart as a magnificent memory, the work continues. Until an important turning point, the discussion on the completed draft of the urban park project on the island of Poveglia. Long and difficult discussion among the tireless people of Poveglia Per Tutti, but nothing is left to chance. We will go all the way and we will not give up Poveglia.
