Marten deals in overload and palimpsest – drawings upon drawings, images dragged and dropped over each other in paintings, which in turn appear slotted into gigantic sculptural contraptions.
Aspects of his work on the studies of anatomy, light and the landscape were assembled for publication by his pupil Francesco Melzi and eventually published as Treatise on Painting by Leonardo da Vinci in France and Italy in 1651 and Germany in 1724, with engravings based upon drawings by the Classical painter Nicolas Poussin.
In the mid-1980s, as chairwoman of the horticulture committee, Mrs. Straus came upon design drawings by Beatrix Jones Farrand for the Botanical Garden's original rose garden, which was built in 1916 but without some architectural elements of Ms. Farrand's plan, including an iron latticework enclosure.
The drawings themselves draw upon the Surrealist concept of automatism, with Seidel distilling architectural or scientific concepts in this case, levels of measurement in the Richter scale, which measures the energy of an earthquake, for example—into visuals.
For half a millennium, artists have relied upon Michelangelo's drawings to teach them the fundamental principles of academic figure drawing.
Not hundreds of pieces, but thousands — shelf upon shelf of drawings, paintings and sculptures.
When Benjamin Sommerhalder, a Swiss publishers, happened upon the architectural drawings of the French artist Philippe Weisbecker in a Tokyo bookstore, he knew he had to do a book of them.
Bureaucratic nightmares were as she remembered them, however, and as Mr. Kabakov had so often depicted them in installations in which visitors walk dingy corridors and stumble upon texts and drawings that proclaim endless, ludicrous and frustrating regulations.
When pointing to body parts irrespective of the species to be processed, we observed a positive effect of videos upon photographs and drawings in the right superior parietal lobule (BA 7), and bilaterally in the superior temporal sulcus, the supramarginal gyrus (BA 40) and the lateral extrastriate visual cortex (including the "extrastriate body area").
Upon unrolling the drawings, an awestruck Stieglitz cried out, "Finally, a woman on paper!" Soon after, O'Keeffe and Stieglitz began to exchange heartfelt letters.
There is one element in Cosmic Spandex that departs entirely from any planetary reference: the elegant wooden frames upon which the drawings rest were each handmade by Roger William Cross II, the artist's late grandfather.
