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Drawing From Experience:

Body, Material, Tool, Eye, Mind

A 4-5 Week Minimester or Workshop Drawing Course Parker Barfield

Research Question

• Art Question:

Art Question: How does art serve as experience: viewing/making As a primary experience or is art a symbolized secondary experience?

• Art Education Question:

Art Education Question: Is there an inclusive curriculum that can allow students to investigate and communicate both primary and secondary experiences

Background

• What is Experience?

– Primary (sensation) vs. Secondary (reflection) à Interdependent – Knowing something happened vs. Understanding what it means

Woman In front of Setting Sun, Caspar David Friedrich, 1820

John Dewey’s Art as Experience (1934)

“What is called the magic of the artist resides in his ability to transfer these values from one field

• f experience to

another, to attach them to the objects of our common life and by imaginative insight make these objects poignant and momentous.” (1934, 118)

4-5 Week Drawing Workshop

• Objective:

Objective: Through the medium of drawing, students will explore both primary and secondary experiences while creating drawings that emphasize: body,

materials, tools, eye, and mind

• Outcomes

– Students better understand their own Primary and Secondary experiences and how this can be a driver for their art – Students engage and explore Their Self Holistically: body, Material, Tool, Eye, and Mind – Students explore a wide variety of techniques and methodologies for creating drawings – Students find their own voice and can fully express their experience through drawing

Unit 1: Body

• Objective: To understand/explore

primary, Highly Sensory experience by using “the body without tools” to produce a drawing in a natural setting

• Warm up Exercises: Try to detect different temperatures

while walking barefoot, walk along a wall with closed eyes trying to feel the differences between sun and shade, recording sounds, touching surfaces, feeling how the body responds to light and dark and registering movements in the environment, such as the wind in the bushes and over the earth.

Unit 1:Examples

Richard Long, A Line Made by Walking, 1967 Richard Long, Waterlines, 2003 Andy Goldsworthy, Rain Shadow, 1984 Janine Antoni, Loving Care, 1993

Unit 2: Material

• Objective: You will undergo a series of

non representational drawing exercises using various “non drawing” and drawing materials applied without the use of tools

• Possible Exercises and Activities:

– Make 500 marks counting out loud with your eyes closed – In 2 minutes while wearing a blind fold make 200 vertical lines in the center of the page in the shape of a square – Draw using an extremely difficult part of the body dipped in materiel i.e, the nose, ear, stomach – Vary the Velocity and gesture of the mark – Use a stencil and fill in with material, make a pattern – Take one of your shorter exercises and begin to develop it into a final drawing over an extended period of time – edit it for aesthetic merit, unity, and compositional structure

Unit 2: Examples

Richard Long, Mud Work Richard Long, Mud Drawing, 2013 Richard Long, Southern Gravity, 2011 Robert Morris Janine Antoni Richard Serra, Throwing molten lead, 1968

Unit 3: Tool

• Objective: You will be taken through a series
• f exercises using non traditional drawing

tools, learn to exploit the capabilities and limitations of drawing tools

• Possible Exercises

– Create a series of horizontal lines walking the length of a long horizontal piece of paper using both dominant and non dominant hand – In 3 minutes create a series of 6’’ horizontal lines down the center of the page with ⅛’’ separation between – Vary the pressure and velocity while using the tool – Play exquisite corpse with mark making, or make a few marks and then pass among classmates – Work together collaboratively using selected materials to create a larger composition from scratch or develop further some of the drawings from earlier exercises

Unit 3: Examples

ART 112 2D Design

Unit 4: Eye

• Objective: developing perceptual and

descriptive connection between the hand and the eye. learning to draw what you see, (Knowing vs. Seeing and Drawing Symbols vs. Looking).

• Exercises:

– One and Two Point Perspective Exercises – Blind Contour and Contour Exercises – Gesture Exercises – Modeling and value exercises – Final Task: Long duration still life drawing

Unit 4: Examples

Blind Contour Studies Cross Contour Studies Two Point Perspective Studies Value and Texture studies Gesture Drawings Still Life Drawing

Unit 5: Mind

• Objective: Represent experience using metaphor or

symbolic representation. To create imaginative or fantastical artwork that represents your experience as taking place in an imaginative world.

• To understand the rich possibilities of expresses your

experience through metaphor and imagination, does the experience become richer?

• ssible Projects:
• Develop a Personal Metaphor, Create a Synectic

Drawing, Represent your experience in a fantasy World Drawing, draw your experience in dream project

Unit 5: Examples

Odilon Redon, The Eye Like Strange Balloon Mounts Towards Infinity, 1882 Rene Magritte, Untitled,1963 Tomoko Konoike, Mimio Odyssey, 2005, Kawasawa Hitoshi, Voyage, 1986-90 Salvador Dali, Illustration

Possible Final

• Create a piece that combines

several primary and secondary ways of working and drawing

Conclusion

• Students investigated various

ways art acts as experience while moving fluidly between primary and secondary experience and reflection.

• Students increased range of

techniques, formal skills, and methodologies

• Students developed a holistic

drawing practice: Body, Material, Tool, Eye, and Mind