Wednesday, March 31, 2010
April Gornik Talks About Working From Photographs
So, there have been some of you who have asked me if we won't be breaking some cardinal rule by making drawings based on photographs rather than on direct observation. Well, there are plenty of artist out there that draw and/or paint with photographs as source material. Listen to April Gornik as she talks about her exhibition "Out Of Africa." When she describes her reasons for utilizing photographic source material, see what you think.
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I really like her works but the painting she was explaining about the water looking flat and how she put trees in the painting that weren't really there, you can kinda tell without her saying it. The trees look "cut out and pasted on" as you say. I for one used to consider painting from a photo as kinda cheating unless you take the photo yourself. It brings more of a personal touch if you seen that place with your own eyes instead of looking at someone elses photo. But I think she uses this method very well.
ReplyDeletei posted my thoughts on this on my blog...i didn't want to leave a novel here lol
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