Regular readers might remember a post from early March, when J. and I were at the Museum of Modern Art in New York with our friends Jenny and Bill and Teju. In the cafe I picked up some of the cards labelled "I Went to MOMA and..." and did some portrait sketches on them. None of mine got left at the museum - I gave them to the subjects, but am still using the nice little stubby black pencils for my sketchbook. Now MOMA has recently posted a wall of some seven hundred of the cards, and you can view them on their website.
My favorite? "I went to MOMA and...became a human being again."
Which reminds me that I haven't been sketching or drawing much at all lately. Time to do something about that. I did take my sketchbook to the garden today but never took it out of my pack! Photographs, however, were taken.
A fascinating collection - thank you for sharing, Beth. And yes, a sketch phase on the blog would be most welcome!
Posted by: Parmanu | May 14, 2011 at 04:25 PM
Very cool!
Posted by: Loretta | May 15, 2011 at 08:16 PM
Your drawing is really very good. I was experimenting today with doing some quick Matisse-style (well, ideally!) linear faces at a portrait class. Interesting to get the essentials without tone.
Also went to an exhibition at the Ashmolean, Oxford, on the world of Alexander the Great and his father Philip. Got utterly absorbed in the ancient Greek world, and when I came out, the large Randolph Hotel opposite (late 19th c) looked most peculiar: grey bricks and long narrow pointed Gothic-style windows. I suppose I was seeing it as an ancient Greek would!
Snippet of info from the exhibition's booklet: "In Macedonia it was not customary for anyone to recline at dinner, unless he had speared a wild boar without using a hunting-net. Until then they must eat sitting." (quote from an obscure ancient Greek). Glad such conditions don't apply nowadays...
Posted by: Vivien | May 16, 2011 at 04:39 PM