Line Drawings of Picasso
Apr. 5th, 2007 05:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
snugglekittySo, this is a book of drawings, so you don't actually read it. :) I got this book out of the library after I fell in love with some prints by Picasso at the MFA. I am amazed by the simplicity of Picasso's line, and how well he captures the human form, so I borrowed this book.
I copied four or five of my favorite drawings from it. I'm not particularly into the stuff that he did that's really surreal. And I'll be the first to admit that I don't get, or share, his obsession with the Minotaur. But the drawings that he did about the relationship between artist, model, and art I really really like. I also love the way he draws faces.
I would recommend this book to anyone interested in contour drawings, as I am. I wish that I knew of more like it. Five stars.
I have a book on modern drawing out of the library, and am planning to work from it in the same way. Unfortunately, I am less enthused by Picasso's other drawing collection, Picasso's Private Drawings. I'm not sure I'm finding much material in it that interests me. I'm also going to see some Picasso prints at a museum I'll be visiting next weekend. I would love to get my hands on the catalogue of a show done a few years ago of the Vollard Suite, from which the Minotaur pictures as well as the art and artist ones, but so far my efforts in that regard have not borne fruit.
Those of you who are into art - what other artists should I be looking at, for line drawings of the face?
I copied four or five of my favorite drawings from it. I'm not particularly into the stuff that he did that's really surreal. And I'll be the first to admit that I don't get, or share, his obsession with the Minotaur. But the drawings that he did about the relationship between artist, model, and art I really really like. I also love the way he draws faces.
I would recommend this book to anyone interested in contour drawings, as I am. I wish that I knew of more like it. Five stars.
I have a book on modern drawing out of the library, and am planning to work from it in the same way. Unfortunately, I am less enthused by Picasso's other drawing collection, Picasso's Private Drawings. I'm not sure I'm finding much material in it that interests me. I'm also going to see some Picasso prints at a museum I'll be visiting next weekend. I would love to get my hands on the catalogue of a show done a few years ago of the Vollard Suite, from which the Minotaur pictures as well as the art and artist ones, but so far my efforts in that regard have not borne fruit.
Those of you who are into art - what other artists should I be looking at, for line drawings of the face?
