Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Language of Architectural Illustration

Kevin Appel

-beautifully architecturalted compositions of horizontal and vertical planes, lusciously colored and made semitransparent by the use of liquid acrylic rather than paints.
-sequential
-achieving a transparency that allows a distinction between masses and void rivaling that of the traditional ink and vellum.









Khedoori

-compositions have the look of architectural illustration
-delineated horizon
A horizontal line was a delineator of illusionistic space for the lot masters, and it remained a firm spatial cue, moving between 2 and 3-D, until modern artists reinterpreted it as a trace of the movement of the artist's body













Julie Mehretu

- using the impersonality of architectural diagrams as a kind of code. She creates recognizable but unidentifiable cities, both hybrid and generic.
-multi-D in that Mehretu borrows still another architectural convention; the layering of drawings on translucent material, one atop the other. 






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