Intro To Abstract (Gilbert Hernandez)

Narrative Art can be described as a piece of artwork in which upon viewing one can come forth with a story out of imagination. Some pieces can have a universal story while others can be seen as having a different dstinction of the story among the viewers (not all people think alike).

Cristiano Siqueira – Hero

May 2nd, 2013

Harry Weisburd

Miss Lonely Hearts 3D

July 10, 2012

14x11 in

Non-Narrative art is where when one looks at artwork  and there is no flicker of imagination in the mind in creating a concept of a story. There is no recognizable images to be found, you can say everything looks random. There is only placements of line, shapes, and color.

Maria Klimek

Le Printemps

2014

100cm x 73 cm

[EDITED] Intro to Abstraction (Dixon)

EDIT:

I think you can take anything, really, and add a story. Even with just colors or blobs, you can come up with a story. With a technical drawing, you can create the idea that the viewer has gained powers that let them see things in different way. There are stories to be found everywhere.

Figuration: a representation of something that is recognizable.

Abstraction: changing something (like blurring, zooming, etc) so that it becomes UNrecognizable.

Of course, with the images of whole eyes, it is easy to recognize that particular part of the body. Although I feel like with the zoomed-in images, I can more easily weave together a story of lost worlds in space with alien landscapes than I can make a story for an image of a full eye. But, like my renewed thought on narration, you can find narrative anywhere and everywhere if you just look/think hard enough.

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Narrative art provides inspiration for stories and tales. When you look at a narrative piece, you can make up a fictitious story about what is shown.

Sakimichan (DeviantArt), Digital Painting, Spare Some Change, M'am?, Jan. 3 2014.

Non-narrative art, for me, is purely technical or abstract to the point that even trying to think of a story makes the brain hurt. It reads as flat.

Taylorweaved (DeviantArt), graphite, Anatomical Drawing, March 6 2012

It is true that you can probably make up a story about any piece of art no matter how abstract. Colors can translate into different emotions and images for each person. However, I, personally, don't think of studies or academic/technical art as narrative.

Intro to Abstraction (Martinez)

NARRATIVE IMAGES

For me personally I can describe a narrative image as art that tell a story in your imagination. A good narrative tells a complexed story and allows the audience to imagine what the story is, a great narrative is art that can communicated such a powerful story, or cause, and even a overwhelming feeling to the audience and they read it from the start.

NON-NARRATIVE IMAGES

Non-narrative images in this sense is that I can't read a story, there is no real emotion. All I get from this image is confusion and in all sense it is great art and the colors are amazing but I don't feel the story behind it. Just shapes, colors and placement in content balance. In really thinking about this image in narrative it is boring because my imagination has no concrete images that launch my thoughts to start the story.

Intro to Abstraction ( Terry Sager )

Narrative, Non-Narrative, Figurative and Abstract Art

Narrative art is the telling of a story in different art mediums.

Figurative art is taken from real object sources.

I see cartoons as true narrative. The captions tell the true story that the artist portrayed. I see most art tell a different story to each person that views the work and may not have the same meaning as the artist that had tried to portray.
Example-- I painted my Grandfathers farm house with buildings and a row of hedge trees in the background. To viewers this would be a house with several buildings and trees. As the artist I only have the true story behind the creation. I would consider this as narrative as well as figurative art. the painting has narrative as well as recognizable objects.
According to the definition of abstraction art--Abstraction indicates a departure from reality in depiction of imagery in art. therefor I  do believe that abstract art is non- narrative. The viewer may enjoy looking at the artist work, but has little meaning. I have seen more non- narrative abstract art on drawing center website than narrative and figurative art.

Terry Sager

Intro to Abstraction- Emily Shirey

Narrative in artwork means that the piece has a believable story with images that are most likely obvious to the viewer while pieces that are non-narratives do not have any specific meaning. For example they might consist of a bunch of jumbled colors or shapes.

Narrative Work:
Pablo Picasso, Guernica 1937


Non-Narrative Work: 
Mark Rothko, Slow Swim to the Edge of the Sea, 1944

 

Hwk 2/24: Intro to ABSTRACTION

Hwk 2/24: Intro to ABSTRACTION

1) Define "NARRATIVE" & "NON-NARRATIVE" art. Make this clear for a broad audience. Give examples with captions.

http://www.idc.iitb.ac.in/resources/dt-jan-2009/Narrative%20and%20Non-Narrative.pdf

What formal elements are present in each? Where do we draw this line? How does abstraction v/s figuration fall into these categories? Support with examples. Post this to the blog.

2) Bring in your contè crayons and ALL grey paper for next class. Paper should measure 18"x 24". If you have already purchased different dimensions bring in what you have.

3) Read over your Scratchboard project. Bring in 4-5 black and white images of eyes (both whole eye and abstracted detail) for next class. Photoshop cropping/ manipulation for contrast acceptable. Each image should measure 6"x 6" and have a 3" border. 

Scratchboard Studies & Intro to Abstraction

Drawing II- Oliver

Assignment 4

(Due: Wednesday, 3/12)

Scratchboard Studies & Intro to Abstraction

Materials:

-­‐two 12” x 12” scratchboard squares (any dark color acceptable)

-­‐Scratch board tools & nibs

-­‐two 6” x 6” images (one full eye with pupil & one detail shot that reads as abstraction/ texture)

---pencil & ruler

(noun) - Abstract art can be a painting or sculpture (including assemblage) that does not depict a person, place or thing in the natural world -- even in an extremely distorted or exaggerated way. Therefore, the subject of the work is based on what you see: color, shapes, brushstrokes, size, scale and, in some cases, the process (see action painting). 

Abstract art began in 1911 with such works as Picture with a Circle (1911) by the Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944).

We are completing our section on observational drawing, ending with portraiture and detail. You will be creating TWO separate drawings from images of eyes (species not important). The first will be used in its entirety as a study in detail and value. The second you must find a section of detail/ texture that reads as abstract imagery. Bring in several options for class on Wednesday, Feb 24.