Drawing as Performance

Theatrical Games and Techniques for Visual Artists

Orly Orbach

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9781138086159
• eBook ISBN: 9781351618076
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: Art Techniques

Making connections between drama and drawing, Drawing as Performance introduces visual artists and designers to rehearsal techniques, theory, and games as ways of developing image-making and visual communication skills.

Drawing from the fields of theatre and anthropology, this book is full of practical exercises that encourage experimentation and play as methods of making expressive, communicative, and meaningful images. Ideas are adapted from the rehearsal room to the drawing studio, offering artists a fresh approach to translating experiences into visual images. Games and exercises are accompanied by demonstrations and responses from professional practitioners and visual communication students.

This one-of-a-kind book guides students and professionals alike to improvisation, self-expression, and reflective visual communication techniques in order to narrow the gap between the handmade image and inner experience from which artists draw their inspiration.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Preface and Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 There’s No Such Thing as a Still Life: Image-Making as a Rehearsal Process
• 2 Drawing from Experience: The Artist as Model
• 3 Drawing, Hunting, Praying: Capturing and Responding to Movement
• 4 Sound – Action – Image: Acting Out Typography
• 5 Image-Making in Public Spaces: The Streets as Immersive Theatre
• 6 Re-Evaluating the ‘Crit’: The Drama of Giving and Receiving Feedback
• 7 Making the Most of Misunderstandings: Between Intention and Interpretation
• Index