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DRAWINGS FROM A CAR |
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The Bridge Ball point pen approximately 10 x 8 Just before entering the George Washington Bridge the myriad of impressions of things and the power of the bridge. |
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Truck Route Ball point pen Approximately 10 x 8 Stuck in traffic and the trucks, trucks, trucks. |
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right Marietta/Callanan Ball point pen Approximately 10 x 8 Actually on route between towns |
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Merritt Parkway Felt tip pen Approximately 10 x 8 Last lap between New York and Connecticut. Stuck in slow traffic long enough to have a pictorial image |
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Out of Florida Graphite Approximately 10 x 8 A typical small Florida town with it’s own flavor |
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I started “drawings from a car” about 4 years ago. My favorite past-time is to draw spontaneously the images that pass me by from a car at varied speeds. Using any drawing tool that will lend itself to fluid and expressive lines (ballpoint, feltpen, pencil, etc.), I draw all things that pass my vision: trucks, roads, trees, cars, roadsigns, billboards, telephone poles, electric circuitry, etc. They are all worthy of expression. They are chronicles of an event in time and space and also because of the high speeds (sometimes as much as 70 miles or so), they are executed with a kind of frenetic energy and spontaneity. I have no time to think….just time enough to respond. The automatic response and gut reaction is what I’m after. I rely on my instincts and a belief in my own powers of expression. Like a diary, it is a very personal and honest confrontation with “self”. As an art form, it can possess the kind of true gestural response that I believe all works of art should have. “Drawings from a Car” have resulted in a series of intaglio prints, as well as lithographs and also have spawned a wealth of paintings and monoprints that are abstract in nature since they seek a kind of synthesis of materials, process and image. |
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All the works of art shown in the website are protected by the Copyright Laws of the United States of America and may only be used by permission of the artist. ©Ann Guiliani 2005 |