Contextual Study

Ober-Weimar, 1921 Lyonel Feininger

Contextual Study

The American painter Lionel Feininger taught art at the Bauhaus witch is a famous art school in Weimar. In this city painting of Weimar he has broken down the houses, the street and the sky into angular shapes of all different sizes. The submissive colouring and rhythmic repeated composition are inspired by the Cubism of Braque and Picasso who often painted in a cubism style.

The colours are interesting as the pallet is very strict, all the colours are similar and mundane. The use of white in the centre of the painting really catches the eye and promotes the middle of the building as the focus of the painting. The use of desert yellows and browns make the background seem very symmetrical rhythmic.

I think it would be really interesting to play and experiment with the different viewpoints of my place in question. I could draw lots of different viewpoints over the top of each other, so in one picture it would be an explosion of the same shapes in different viewpoints and angles. Studying architectural cubism has really inspired me and got me thinking about creating my own cubised inspired mixed media collage or painting

Perspective and ink – Unknown Artist

Contextual StudyI loved the freedom of this perspective ink drawing. The varied thickness of lines really created a depth of filed, and made the sketch seem 3D. Even though its hard to see what this sketch is actually of, you can tell instantly it’s an architectural study. The artist has used much thicker and darker lines to create a sense of depth, although this drawing lacks colour, I feel the black and white colour scheme adds to the rough sketch effect. This piece of work really stands out to me, I love the creative messiness of it, and the abstract imperfect lines. Doing fun, free experimental studies like this will help me to develop my understanding of the viewpoints and the depth my place in question has. Studying this painting has inspired me to be more free with fine liner and ink.

Chen © Colour Overlays

Contextual Study

This artist uses the computer to make simple architectural sketches. He uses bright colours and focuses on primary colours such as yellow red and blue and experiments with colour by using the same graphic photo but changing the colour scheme. This style of art reminded me of the work I did on google sketch up as it looks animated, however this style is much more free and almost has a comic book child like feel to it. I think It could work well if I were to draw my place in question using windows paint, this would then allow me to experiment with different colour schemes much easily than painting or colouring pencil. I really like the simplicity of the sketches as it allows you to focus on the colour much more.

Mixed Media Studies of my Place in Question