Masks from Burkina Faso, Gabon, Ghana, Tanzania and The Republic of Congo

 

Benin Ivory Mask 25cm high.

17th Century carved mask from Benin Kingdom ( now part of Nigeria)

Doei female ancestor mask, Tanzania

Animal styled masks Burkina Faso 19th Century

Animal styled masks Burkina Faso 

Dan people of Ghana mask made by Emmanuel Opoku Asante

Fang Mask, Gabon

Ram Mask -  Gabon or Republic of Congo 19th or 20th Century

Carved Wood and white beads mask from Ghana

mask from the Punu people of Gabon in West Africa

Ngil society in Cameroon, Gabon, and Equatorial Guinea

Fang Mask Ngil Society Gabon

Dean Gle Mask made by Dan People of Liberia

Von Gla Mask made by Dan People of Liberia

Carved Wood Mask, N'tomo Mask made by Bambara people of West Africa 

made during 18th Century

 

Drawing a vew from a window

 Drawings are flat versions of a three dimensional world.

There are three main ways you can make things look far away or close to you in your landscape drawing

1. Make things that are farther away pale using light marks and shading

2. Draw things that are father away smaller

3. Use big drawing marks on things closest to you and small  marks farther away

Landscape Drawing Vincent Van Gogh

The buildings on the left get smaller so the ones higher up the page look farthest away

The marks or texture used to create the path next to the building get lighter and smaller as they go awau from you

Landscape Drawing Vincent Van Gogh

The marks that show the cut grass or crops at the bottom of the drawing are bigger than the marks used for the distant buildings and sky

Use the window frame as an edge of your drawing

Drawing by Lancelot Richardson

Straight on is easiest so that the frame follows the edge of the page

Austen Pinkerton

You can draw the window at an angle to you, this is much harder to do when working from observation but will make a more interesting drawing

Look at all the different marks used on the Austen Pinkerton drawing

Andrew Wyeth

No window frame, but look how dark and light shading and tones have been used the show buildings that are close to you and buildings that are far apart

 

Bas Relief / Low Relief Sculpture

 Paul Day contemporary Sculptor who has produced a series of monumental sculptural pieces sited in London

Meeting Point sited on the upper level at St Pancras Station in London

The main section of the sculpture is the pair of figures

Beneath the figures is a circular frieze that goes around the base, Made in clay and cast into metal this is a Bas Relief with elements of high relief on a sculptural mural of scenes that relate to the station.

The level of detail is incredible but look at how he has suggested a photographic or paintly sense of distance in what is bas relief or almost flat sculpture

Battle Of Britain Memorial Thames Embankment London

https://www.military-history.org/feature/victoria-embankments-battle-of-britain-monument.htm

Article that explains the difference between high and low relief

Podules - Textiles Natural Forms - Jan Niedojadlo

 

Jan uses Textiles and Plastics over wire framework to construct these large scale abstract pieces based on natural forms. Unlike many large sculptural pieces they are also environments that viewers can get inside to experience different kinds of spaces.

https://www.podules.org/

https://www.instagram.com/pod_sensory_sculptures

Showing reflection and thought through pose and body language

 Auguste Rodin The Thinker (1904)

Rodin's Sculpture has been cast a number of times and there are multiple versions in different locations

Kathe Kollwitz

German Artist who depicted the struggle of life in Germany in the late Nineteenth Century and the first half of the 20th Century. Kollwitz and her family lived and grew up in an overcrowded district of Berlin full of cramped apartments with poor unsanitary conditions. Look at how she uses body language to communicate feelings and emotions

Blog Article on Kollwitz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A4the_Kollwitz

Thomas Eakins

The Thinker ;  Portrait of Louis N Kerton

Gustave Courbet -  Despair 1845

Vincent Van Gogh Old Man in Sorrow ( At Eternity's Gate) 1890

Reflections 'Audrey Flack' Still Life Using Mirrors and Reflections

 

Rich Art 1973 Painting

Jolie Madame 1972 Painting

World War 2 Vanitas 1976 - 1977 Painting

Chanel 1974 Painting

Spitfire Painting 

Smithsonian Museum Article on Audrey Flack