continuing drawing with golden ratio

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Started to play with the possibilities, three photo's above are showing the changing drawings. Continuing drawing is playing with possibilities already there when the first line is drawn. It is also a fight against boredom and laziness. Tomorrow during the workshop "intensive drawing" after this material about the golden ratio, I am curious how many participants can stay awake.
The best thing to do is to switch of or to eliminate the ego, so drawing itself can go on without sighs. A bit of desperation is the right mood to execute a drawing not foreseen and not existing until now.

the surface and its dimensions

The surface, I am trying to focus on the surface and its dimensions. For that reason it is nice to be able to use the balanced proportions of the golden ratio. The dimensions of a golden ratio sheet of paper that is locked up in an A4 sheet of paper is quite smaller than an A4. The photo up here shows some A4 sheets of paper, 2 golden ratio sheets of paper and three sit, lie & stand sheets of paper cut to proportions with the same square centimetres. An A4 has the dimensions 29,7 x 21 centimetres, a golden ratio sized sheet of paper cut from an A4 sheet of paper has the dimensions 29,7 x 18,4 centimetres.



To construct the golden ratio rectangle it is necessary to use a square. The square is an integral part of a golden ratio rectangle. Drawing the construction lines already there through connecting edges and continuing drawing from crossing lines is easy, no inspiration or special skills are necessary. The drawing is in the paper like the sculpture is in the stone.







Drawn on Epson Premium Glossy Photo paper with its glossy coating. Playing with the possibilities is started, erasing and scratching into the paper is part of the game. Golden ratio and palimpsest techniques are subject of research, of practical artistic research.

golden ratio

Next Wednesday, march 31 2010, during the workshop "intensive drawing" I would like to propose that we are going to work with the "golden ratio". To inform what the "golden ratio" means herewith the wikipedia explanation :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio

The drawing above of the rectangle is constructed after the golden ratio, starting with a square of 21 x 21 cm. The drawing is made on a A3 sheet of paper : 42 x 29,7 cm. The golden ratio rectangle on the A3 sheet of paper has the dimensions 34 x 21 cm. I think this is the smallest golden ratio rectangle with natural numbers.
To bore and burn, to stand and fall, to unite and divide.

workshop "intensive drawing"

Today, wednesday we started with a workshop on drawing. Quite a lot of students from different departments from the Rietveld Academy joined the workshop. From 10:00 a.m. untill 5:00 p.m. we made drawings after the plan of three different sizes of paper with the same amount of square centimetres. Yesterday's post "artistic research in practise" is showing the concept where we worked with today. Herewith some results after a day of concentrated drawing. The names of the participants who made the drawings shown here are going to be blogged later on...

artistic research in practise

A square drawn with ink on an A4 sheet of paper, a vertical rectangular drawn with ink on an A4 sheet of paper and a horizontal rectangular drawn with ink on an A4 sheet of paper.



The square (sitting), the vertical rectangular (standing) and the horizontal rectangular (lying) are three "mother models" to start an artistic research. The workshop "intensive drawing", which will start tomorrow in the Rietveld Pavilion next to the Rietveld Academy, will work on this issue.
While drawing those three formats on an A4 sheet of paper it is difficult to limit myself to this very simple task. In fact I am longing to start drawing variations with the innumerable possibilities already there in the drawn concept of the divided square and rectangular. Lost in oppositions & drowned in possibilities.
Artistic research could be the systematically investigation of the possibilities. So tomorrow we are going to explore and exploit under strict control the graphical possibilities with the three divided grids.

measurement

a square surface with the dimensions 21 x 21 cm = 441 cm2
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a rectangular surface with the dimensions 14,85 x 29,7 cm = 441 cm2
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a rectangular surface with the dimensions 29,7 x 14,85 cm = 441 cm2
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another 4 states

Closing this palimpsest by ornamenting the alphabet.



Graphite colouring after Tuerlinckx.



Alphabet after Broodthaers.



Bricks after Magritte and Broodthaers.

palimpsest drawing

A new attempt to produce, by drawing and erasing, a palimpsest. It isn't very clear what to do and how to continue. The palimpsest chapter was more or less clarified after the lecture in The Hague. Now it is possible to go further and deeper into the concept of palimpsesting. It isn't clear to me why I want to force the concept of making palimpsests into the direction of Belgian artistic heritage with René Magritte, Marcel Broodthaers and Joëlle Tuerlinckx as a small family of artists where I would like to reflect on. Probably by making drawings, writing on this blog and by reading certain books it is going to be clear...

TueBroMag

Surface Research wants to deal with the idea of space in the works and concepts of Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Marcel Broodthaers and René Magritte. Soon there will be more to see and read on this subject. A chapter on Marcel Boodthaers.