All the drawings in this set of still lifes are fascinating to me. This one holds my attention because it reminds me of what happens when an advanced artist gives a demonstration of what children’s art looks like and then makes very sophisticated marks anyway.
The childlike quality in the above still life is in the solid outlines that give us the shape of all the objects, the peaches, the pear, the knife and the cup.
This linear quality is also characteristic of “naïve and outsider art.” For examples of naïve and outsider art, have a glance at:
Notice that all these images were meticulously, slowly and, one can even say, compulsively drawn. (The exceptions are the images from mondoexpressionism. They are too loose and painterly to be in that category.)
Now look again at our still life drawing. Does this feel slow or fast? Fast, right? You can tell that it was sketched with a sure hand and a feeling of urgency, like an artist’s quick sketch on the back of an envelope to lay out a composition to a fellow artist. The artist brought a degree of self-confident abandon to the background scribbles and the table texture that is not found in naïve art.
It’s interesting that we can see a quick, lively ellipse (not naïve!) in the cup, but the ellipse is too rotund for that distant a view of the cup. The cup also expertly renders the reflected light and the deep shadow. At the same time, I want to ask the potter if she was tipsy when she threw this tipsy cup.
What we get in this drawing is something like “fine art technique meets naïve.“
Next, apropos tipsy cup, let’s talk about perfection and im-.
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