For this research, 4 of 5 of these artist are ones I found in the ADM library.
Mattero Pericoli
What caught my attention with Mattero Pericoli is the immaculate detail he puts into his environment drawings. In these pictures, Mattero captures his environment through his view from a window. I love that he used the window grills as his framing device. If I were to focus on just part of a drawing, through one windowpane, it still looks like a complete piece of work that is nicely famed (something we also discussed in semester 1 during one our critic sessions!). The grills are more often the only one that’s “shaded” through cross-hatching, further emphasizing them as frames to his artwork.
His sense of perspective is also on point. Although these are drawings of buildings and/or structures, all of his lines are done freehand, which I felt gave his environment more life.
Abdelkader Benchamma
Another artist with I feel has fantastic intricate linework. Some of his works reminds me of the posters for this film called “Lobster”. That being how huge chunks are deliberately omitted in his artworks. It’s very interesting to me as through the empty spaces, it creates this moody tone of his composition. While his line works are extremely detailed, his overall composition can be broken down to shapes whereby Abdelkader successfully plants them in his layout with a clear idea as to where his details will go and where he’d leave it blank.
Ruth Gwily
Her artwork in this book is mainly humans. But the interesting part is how she chose to represent them in this performance-art sort of manner. Looking at her history, she seemed to be involved in costumes at some point, so it’s no surprised she used that as a theme for her illustration.
But before looking her up, what struck me the most about her is her choice to have her subject wear costumes like an oversize helmet/masked as opposed to exaggerating proportions. Which is interesting to me as while she’s grounding her work into reality, its still just as, if not, more wacky than if she chose to just exaggerate their proportions.
The reason why I feel she manages to pull this off is her strong sense of human proportions as well as a good understanding of scale and weight
Sun Xun
Probably the most different out of all the artists I’ve picked. What drew me to his work is this dark, somber, almost surrealistic tone he has going on in this paintings which he achieved through his dark lighting, composition and the subject of his painting. I also noticed that most of his works seems a similar composition. That being on eye level, which puts the viewer into the scene, as though they’re observing an event that’s happening before them.
(I couldn’t clearer pictures online so I took a picture from his book. The pages are also glossy so it’s hard getting a picture without any light reflecting..)
Kim Jung Gi
One of my all time favorite artist. What drew me into his work is similar or a combination to some of the ones I mentioned above. The immaculate attention to detail, understanding of anatomy and perspective, and his rendering grabs my attention. Seeing him create his works can be a little demoralizing at first (when I was much younger) because of how effortlessly he draws and paints without any use of guides but now it’s much clearer to me that he’s able to do all that because of how hard and long he worked on his craft.
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