Whether portraiture or abstraction, artists have portrayed the human form for thousands of years on cave walls, papyrus, marble, and canvas. Some figures were used to illustrate a story or an historical event, others to sculpt or paint the magnificence of the human body.
An artist may struggle with a particular facial feature, a hand, a foot, or bodily proportions, working and reworking, sometimes agonizing until achieving their vision; and a finished work of art will not likely ever reveal the tumultuous exercise required to reach that perfection. Models have sat frozen in position for hours on end to allow the artist to capture the curvature of a bicep, the graceful bend of a finger, or the spiral of an ear.
Artist James Brock has a terrific grasp of the male form. His masterful use of color and brush strokes on canvas and execution of pastel on paper show us that he has a vision—a revelation that is both portrait and abstract. You want to reach out and touch them, but be careful, you might get burned!
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| Male | 2007 Acrylic on Canvas | 14 in. x 11 in. |
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| Male | 2011 Acrylic on Canvas | 16 in. x 20 in. |
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| Man | 2014 Mixed Media on Canvas | 10 in. x 10 in. |
1 comment:
Thank you for such fine words concerning my "The Male Form~Art!" I'd like to add my obsession with -X-Ray will reveal, I always start from skeletal and all figures male and female are anatomically correct! ;) Whats a body without a ... well you know, *wink~ Anatomically correct or anatomically precise is of the primary and secondary sex characteristics of a human! (Us)!
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