The point is probably that we always wonder how exactly each artwork has been created and that the process with which each artwork has been done is as important as the result. The sundial also evokes the long hours spent on the creating the artwork.ĭouble Take invites the visitor to look twice at each artwork and to ask himself whether it is a photograph or a drawing. The hand drawing here records the physical shapes of the object precisely like a photograph would. British artist Anna Barriball rubs graphite onto paper, thereby diligently recording the minute volumes of items she chooses, in this instance a sundial. Another humoristic work is by the famous Belgian artist Marcel Broodthaers who photographs ‘No Photographs Allowed’ in three languages. ![]() However, this video is more playful than documentary. Is the movement of our hand describing our unconscious thoughts? Probably. A scribble is slowly juxtaposed onto the movie. Photogram is a process nowadays re-appreciated by young and well-known contemporary artists such as the American Lisa Oppenheim (currently exhibited at the Approach Gallery).įrench artist Pierre Bismuth (born 1963) follows with a line Sigmund Freud’s hand movement from an old 16mm film. The shapes of these objects is thus recorded onto the sheet without the use of a camera. A photogram is a process whereby the object is placed in a dark room directly onto light sensitive paper. Young artist Jiří Thýn draws geometrical shapes with such hyperrealism that we mistakenly think that the pictures are photographs.Įarly photograms by famous Hungarian artist Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and by Curtis Moffat from the first half of the twentieth century also show the early experiments between photography and abstraction. Contemporary artist Jolana Havelkova shows the gestural marks etched on ice from the movement of skating shoes, once more creating a sort of non-figurative drawing. A shadow then creates an abstract circular line brought about solely by light. ![]() She places for example photosensitive paper on a gramophone. She always experimented with the medium, challenging the idea that a photograph truly represents the world. One of the artists, Běla Kolářová trained as a photographer in the first half of the twentieth century. ![]() This uncertainty is further enhanced by the fact that many artworks are abstract. Three Czech artists investigate the ambiguity between photography and drawing.
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