This blog's title is based upon the best question I ever overheard being asked, by a young Liverpudlian child to his mother, as in "What's..?". The answer seems to be something of a creative and cultural nature which, in deed (primarily the making of art) and word, this blog intends to explore...
Friday, July 11, 2008
Four's (part of) a Crowd...(5)
graphite, putty eraser & watercolour/30x20cm
original source: 'The Guardian' 16/06/08
Continuing 'the project within The Project', transcribing discrete sections of an original large-scale newspaper photograph of a football crowd, again the drawing serves in the manner of synecdoche as part-for-the-whole, yet still the individual faces & their expressions - particularly as they generally run counter to the frivolous headgear being sported - provide compelling human detail...
Soundtrack:
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds 'Best of', 'Abattoir Blues' & 'The Lyre of Orpheus'
Sol Seppy 'The Bells of 1 2'
Lambchop 'Aw, C'mon' & 'No, You C'mon'
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