Minimalism

This graphite pencil drawing ‘Nude – 12-05-15’ is a mininalist one. Since I started this series I tried to  employ as many styles as I can muster. Not easy and a bit akward I feel. Getting used to one style and mastering it can lead to great pleasure and therefor comfort. Because you can lean back in it and let it all hang out. However, variation is the spice of life and you’re reading an art statement written by someone who is bored easily. In other words, I can be my worst enemy sometimes and often I feel rather stuck in a style. Roundism is about one year old now and I feel I have to keep on innovating. Keeping my progression evolving and edgy. How about that for a long and winding road?

Strokes & Stripes

The last one was linear and very cubistic. Not a bad experiment but for the time I feel I have totally exhausted all possible cubist styling. Then I remembered I made a mininalist drawing before, called ‘The Birth of New Cubism – 1 – 14-06-14 (Sold)’. Problem solved for now. Another stylistic approach. It even looks the same with the short strokes and stripes. The head and torso I enforced with some thicker lines whereas lines depictings limbs are much thinner. Finally, I hope the viewer will still be able to interpret the lines to be a nude. Therefor it’s been a challenge to omit no essential structures. As such my lines could be considered as a sort of pareidolia as well. You see lines but interpret a hand for example. 

Graphite pencil drawing (Pentel 0.5 mm, 3B) on Canson Bristol paper (21 x 29.2 x 0.1 cm – A4 format)

Artist: Corné Akkers