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DRAWING ESSENTIALS:
A Complete Guide to Drawing
Deborah Rockman
With expository text accompanying five full color reproductions, the series ERASING is highlighted in the fourth edition of Deborah Rockman’s Drawing Essentials appendix. Drawing Essentials includes more than one hundred illustrations from twenty-two contemporary artists.
Observation
Epiphany from the studio
The Anxiety of Style
Reflections from an old artist
Young Artist with paintings, 1974
Field Painting, oil & shoes on canvas, 6' x 6', 1974
Another way that the anxiety of style is handled in student work is through synthesis and hybridization. In the painting on the right, I combined the rough edged matte-knife strokes of Clifford Still with the lyrical abstract paintings of Philip Guston. The anxiety is apparent in the scratchy, nervous and agitated painting surface created by using my fingers to apply the paint and made all the more so by deliberately and self-consciously dumbing down the subject matter into child-like diagrammatic imagery.
First Meeting, oil on canvas, 6' x 9', 1976
Whether the work was successful, it does contain my subsequent interest in humor and narrative (see my early work here). But style can't be forced even by the most competitive art student. And with what style mature artists end up can't be justified or avoided. To paraphrase the rhetorical and wonderfully post-modernist riddle posed by that old Blackglama ad campaign: What becomes a style most? Insert your work here.
Whether the work was successful, it does contain my subsequent interest in humor and narrative (see my early work here). But style can't be forced even by the most competitive art student. And with what style mature artists end up can't be justified or avoided. To paraphrase the rhetorical and wonderfully post-modernist riddle posed by that old Blackglama ad campaign: What becomes a style most? Insert your work here.