Authors:Sankalia; Tanu Abstract: G.K. Chesterton’s short and surreal parable, “The Angry Street: A Bad Dream,” reminds us to not overlook things that surround us in everyday life, and to show them respect. Wayne Thiebaud’s paintings of cityscapes, inspired by San Francisco’s steep, building-lined streets, reestablish our links to the built environment with a vitality that sometimes the real—and the camera—lacks, but which drawing and painting bring to that which is represented. Chesterton and Thiebaud underscore how fictions are more evocative than truths. In this essay, accompanied by my own drawings of San Francisco’s steep streets, I suggest that fantastical fiction and art, in allegorical forms, can inspire us to reconnect with the material world around us—of things, and even streets—with renewed civility and respect. PubDate: Thu, 27 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +000
Authors:Lohern; Fernando Abstract: In this opportunity, I want to share a little glimpse of the memories and places I’ve been able to capture in my sketch-books all over the United States.I was born and raised in Guatemala and art has always been a really big thing in my life. Seven years ago, I decided to stop taking a lot of picture with my phone and instead capture the moments, memories and places I was able to experience. I thought that people take pictures to capture moments and places and maybe they’ll check them once in a while and some will be forgotten in just a few weeks. At least I have more than 10k photos in my phone and I can’t believe it. With my sketches the moments and places will always remain vibrant and I will always carry them with me no matter what.In the past few years, I’ve been traveling all around the US visiting family and friends so here are some of my favorite sketches of different States. PubDate: Wed, 29 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +000
Authors:Moezzi; Mohammad Abstract: Using visual hierarchy, representational media often separate diverse urban experiences. Three categories of foreground, middle ground, and background are easily distinguished in photography and painting. Urban sketches separate buildings, figures, and natural features. In architectural working drawing, “poché, entourage, and mosaïque” forms a structural system for representing cut walls, environment, and texture respectively[1]. Recently, photogrammetry or Lidar scanning claim to break these hierarchies by creating “a uniform unbiased document of things in space as they exist.”[2] However, these tools fail to reveal... PubDate: Wed, 1 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000
Authors:Fernandez Gonzalez; Juan Abstract: The presence of urban sketchers has an impact on pedestrian traffic and exchanges in the city. The nature of these exchanges depends on where people sketch from and whether they are alone or in a group. This piece includes sketches from the Christian Science Plaza in Boston, which were drawn in public by the author. PubDate: Sun, 15 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +000
Authors:Willis; Thomas Ray Abstract: In this series of drawings commissioned by Thomas Ray Willis, Portrait Artists in Times Square depict their pandemic-affected environment. In a project statement, Thomas Ray Willis provides his experience sitting with artists. PubDate: Sat, 14 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +000
Authors:Purcell; Ryan Donovan Abstract: Drawing is an act of discovery, according to the late culture critic John Berger. Drawing forces, the artist to look at the object, to dissect it in their mind’s eye and put it together again. Much like writing, drawing is also a means of observing and thinking about the world around you. Berger’s philosophy has animated many of my creative projects over the past five years. This is how I approach urban history: observation, reflection, and analysis. But I have discovered drawing as an intimate medium through which to think about my relationship to New York City. PubDate: Sun, 1 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000
Authors:Valois; Nicole Abstract: These sketches, drawn from my work-place, show the area around the Université de Montréal environmental design faculty in winter. From the windows where I drew them (sheltering from the cold), we see the surrounding landscape, as well as the mountain in the distance, through the leafless trees. These drawings, in black and gold ink and watercolor, evoke, on a small scale, the connections between the city and the landscape of the mountain – Mount Royal, the emblem of Montréal. Like landscape paintings with multiple grounds, they speak of the public space, the winter vegetation with its mesh of branches and the icons of Montréal. PubDate: Sun, 1 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000
Authors:Gan; Gregory Abstract: This visual anthropology project was informed by a series of plein-air water-color sketches of panel-block apartment buildings, painted in conversation with ethnographic research participants in Moscow in 2021. Such housing, built on an industrial scale during Nikita Khrushchev’s mass-housing campaign between 1955 and 1964, and which came to be nicknamed khrushchevkas, became ubiquitous across the Soviet Union. In 2017, in Moscow, Russia, panel-block apartments were threatened by the renovatsiya campaign, which asked residents to vote to demolish their own homes, now declared dilapidated housing. The author painted a number of these apartment buildings slated for demolition, recording details in the construction, ornamentation, and topography of each apartment block. The author also gathered testimonies of artists who live in-, and whose artistic practice revolves around such housing, asking participants to share their artistic process, memories of growing... PubDate: Sun, 1 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000
Authors:Abbasi; Sajad Abstract: Hand-painted images of the historic city of Mohammadabad Jarghoye, located near the city of Isfahan, which dates back to the Qajar period at the end of the 18th century. These plans include the entrances of the houses and the general view of the city. PubDate: Sun, 1 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000
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Cho, Mihye Abstract: Drawings from an online ethnography class and a discussion of the impact on student experience. PubDate: Sun, 1 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000
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