It's a Wrap #2

What has become something of a rarity here at TOoT this year, in the (re)presentation today of a drawing of another pair of pears wrapped in tissue paper along the lines of recent considerations of subject/object matter.
Whilst the objects might be considered as having a sculptural quality in themselves, being thus aesthetically transformed from their original form by the act & result of wrapping (which of course performs significant surface alterations also), still the intention was that they provide the models for representing in the form & process of drawing rather than existing in & for themselves as such, or merely being documented in photographic form, for instance.
Here, the utilization of watercolour is intended to allow a sense of the nature of the tissue paper, establishing its form against the white ground, & the subtle hints of the colour of the skin of the fruit visible in places beneath the thin veils of this light, translucent covering.


graphite & watercolour/30x20cm

By way of nothing more than pure visual coincidence (rather than an habitual act of contextualization) of an art historical nature, albeit of a peculiar & somewhat incongruous one, one might notice something of an affinity, a correspondence, of form, as occurred to mind, between the wrapped pear to the right of the drawing, with its substantial stalk curving up & out of the wrapping, & the disguised shape of a certain Mr (or Herr, rather) Joseph Beuys as he appears in this documentary photograph of his performance-installation 'I Like America and America Likes Me', swathed as he is wholly in a blanket of felt & clutching a shepherd's staff...


[image found on artknowledgenews.com]

Soundtrack:


Low 'Things We Lost in the Fire'
Test Match Special Eng v SA, World Cup ODI
Mark Mulchay 'Smilesunset'