December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
208 pages
3h 39m
English
Many artworks present traces of the physical touch of the artist in the form of brushstrokes, fingermarks, chisel marks, and so forth. The nature of the marks made by an artist establish a bond with the viewer and provide a conduit for expression. The viewer empathizes with the kind of stroke made and understands immediately whether it is firm, angry, tender, delicate, rough, strident, or forceful. Similarly, in some sculpture, the touch of the artist is revealed as clay is pushed around or stone surfaces are carved and chiseled.
The communication of this almost biological information about the artist comes to the fore in much expressionist art, where the marks made often appear to carry a sense of the artist’s state of ...