Tracey Emin (1963 - )

There is a lovely rough, gestural quality to Emin's work. Her use of line is very fluid, awkward and uneven. I get the sense from these drawings that they were done quickly. There is a wonderful loose and vague quality to her work, like she has stopped drawing as soon as she thought that she had communicated enough information about the form. Some of her work reminds me of Matisse's line drawings, especially in the way they only communicate pieces of visual information which the viewer then has to piece together.

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Antony Gormley (1950 - )

"In Antony Gormley’s remarkable drawings the body is not so much seen from the outside as felt from the inside. The drawings express physical and spiritual experiences of what it is like to be a human being in the world, with fear and loneliness as well as joy and sharing. The figure is not standardised and ideal, but can be small or large; it is not isolated and complete in itself but interacts with the space and the light and dark areas around itself." - Retrieved from this link

I like the fluidity of Gormley's work, especially his work in ink where it appears he has used a large amount of water to dilute and distort the body. I like how the body is hinted at in some of his work. The human form is often silhouetted and blocked in, with no facial features or details recorded, adding to an ambiguity and anonymity to his work. He doesn't get caught up on that the ideal body should look like, but explores and describes the human form in a free and gestural way.

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Ideal image of a man

"About 500 years ago Leonardo da Vinci made a drawing of a man. With his feet together and his arms stretched apart, the outer limits of his body are juxtaposed on a square. Superimposed on this is the same body with feet apart and the arms stretched slightly higher, this time a circle is drawn joining the outer tips of his limbs. Leonardo drew the ideal image of man in a universe described by mathematics: man is seen from the outside in terms of an abstract ideal of perfection at the beginning of the modern technological age." - Retrieved from this link

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