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A drawing like this is not 'planned', rather it happens. What tradition does art like this belong to. nothing new here that's for sure, other than 'who' is doing it. Constructivism? I'm literally constructing the drawing elements as I go...
From Wikipedia, " Constructivism as theory and practice derived itself from a series of debates at INKhUK (Institute of Artistic Culture) in Moscow, from 1920-22. After deposing its first chairman, Wassily Kandinsky for his 'mysticism', The First Working Group of Constructivists (including Liubov Popova, Alexander Vesnin, Rodchenko, Varvara Stepanova, and the theorists Alexei Gan, Boris Arvatov and Osip Brik) would arrive at a definition of Constructivism as the combination of faktura: the particular material properties of the object, and tektonika, its spatial presence."
Not a bad fit.. if one takes the eyes and mouths and hands as 'properties' and the form of the paper as it's 'space' then the question is answered. but wait. The twenties?... we're about a hundred years late. >more or less< Then again, like any good definition, it is wide and stable enough to hold just about anything one wants to apply. Maybe it needs a new pair of shoes and a hat, turned backward... something to fit the times..
Got it! Try this! "humanist postmodernist/deconstructed constructivism.
Humanist? Because it is people here, not buildings or products...
Why 'deconstructed? Simply because when you think about that vague definition it is obviously mumbo jumbo.. Too much brain power in one little room. Mixing eggs in a bowl or drawing a still life or a portrait or a tree would fit just as well. Well it has been analyzed in it's base parts>quickly and without depth as befits the times< and rejected.. but there we are, right where we started! Constructing one line after another. that this one is about a group interaction is random.. a few lines changed and it could be a wild orgy!
Older stuff, still kicking round..
Better communication through drawing!
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bear48's avatar
so surereal and so expressive