Start Where You Are. Move On from There.
Copy after Chagall’s “Birth”
The Art Institute of Chicago
Pencil on paper
7″ x 5″
© 1991 Marilyn Fenn
Class Notes from Advanced Studio Drawing, taught by Barbara Rossi, Fall 1991
Purpose of class: development of personal resources, more inventive with how you represent things; more significant to you.
Look at modes of representation, both Western & other.
It happens by doing it all the time – TOTAL COMMITMENT!
Start where you are. Move on from there. Maximize your good points, push them further.
Project Yourself into the Picture Plane
Painting by Paul Cezanne
Madame Cezanne in a Red Armchair
aka “Hortense Fiquet in a Striped Skirt”
oil on canvas
1877-78
Class notes from Drawing the Figure in Space class taught by Elizabeth Rupprecht, SAIC, 1991
Look at Paul Klee’s “The Thinking Eye.”
Look at “Point and Line to Plane” – Kandinsky.
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