Week 2 Reflections: Encountering the Figure

The tracing the images task was helpful as it got me thinking about the size and media the artists used.  A couple of my attempts did not go to plan due to the wrong type of paper.  Still, they did lead to some interesting images, for instance, Peyton's image of Diana in a swimming suit on a crinkled paper, as I used too much-wet media without stretching the paper, which brought on connotations of this fleeting moment, a polaroid capture that also had an accidental dip in a pool and then dried out in the sun feels to it.Overall, I have a greater understanding and respect for these simplified images; as researching the artists, I have found that to do these more abstract images, the artist had spent many years doing traditional figure representations first.The scale research helped a lot, and I did certain parts of the image at the actual scale to focus more on applying the media in style like the original image.  Making copies of the work has given me an insight into how these various interpreted their ideas and communicated through mark-making.  How you could feel the harrowing narrative that Käthe Kollwitz recorded in her image to the energy captured in Reubens's fast preparatory drawings.