Resurgence of drawing as a major art form and examples of contemporary artists

1. DRAWING CONCLUSIONS

2. Current resurgence of drawing is reaction against the hands-off, conceptual, restraint in drawing, such as
this piece by Darren Almond

3. Darren Almond

4. Damien Hirst

5. Damien Hirst

6. Martin Creed

7. Martin Creed

8. Rachel Whitehead

9. Rachel Whitehead

10. Allan McCollum

11. Allan McCollum

12. Some artists whose work is more hands-on, less theoretical…

13. Maurizio Catellan

14. Maurizio Catellan

15. The Chapman Brothers
Exquisite Corpse Drawing

16. Chapman Brothers

17. Peter Doig

18. Peter Doig

19. Exuberant mark-making

20. Marlene
Dumas

21. Marlene
Dumas

22. Daniel Richter

23. Marlene
Dumas

24. Jorg Immendorf

25. Jorg Immendorf

26. Contemproary drawing greatly
influenced by West Coast “Low Brow”
movement – cartooning, tattoo,
comics, La Luz de Jesus gallery,
Juxtapose magazine

27. Ray Pettibon

28. Ray Pettibon

29. Robert Williams

30. Robert Williams

31. R. Crumb

32. R. Crumb

33. …and by the San Francisco Mission
School – definitely low brow,
whimsical, street smart, with a much
looser child-like approach, and wit

34. Chris Johansen

35. Chris Johansen

36. Clare Rojas

37. Clare Rojas

38. Barry McGee

39. Barry McGee

40. Contemporary drawings continue the rejection of
conceptual art in favor of more democratic, unifying
statement of validity for neglected or side-lined art
forms (such as naïve or folk art, crafts, illustration

41. Laylah Ali

42. Laylah Ali

43. Julie Mehretu

44. Julie Mehretu

45. Royal Art Lodge

46. Royal Art Lodge

47. Jockum Nordstrom

48. Jockum Nordstrom

49. Marc Bauer

50. Marc Bauer

51. Olivia Plender

52. Olivia Plender

53. Emergence of Pop Surrealism, patterning,
obsessive detail

54. Paul Noble – Nobson Newtown (city planning as self-portrait)

55. Paul Noble

56. Michael whittle

57. Michael Whittle

58. Camille Rose Garcia

59. Camille Rose Garcia

60. Sara Thustra

61. Sara Thustra

62. Andrew Schoultz

63. Andrew Schoultz

64. Andrew Schoultz

65. Sacha Eckes

66. Sacha Eckes

67. Simone Shubuck

68. Simone Shubuck

69. Gina Triplett

70. Gina Triplett

71. Aurel Schmidt

72. Aurel Schmidt

73. Dominic McGill

74. Dominic McGill

75. Sarah Woodfine

76. Sarah Woodfine

77. Adam Dant

78. Adam Dant

79. Richard Hoglund

80. Richard Hoglund