Portrait of K
Portrait of K, Tim Lowly © 2006, drawing on toned paper, 19" x 14.5". Private collection.
Here is an excerpt from an article by Joseph C. Skrapits in which he writes about this drawing:
"In Portrait of K, a recent charcoal drawing by Tim Lowly, a young woman clutches her coat in a gesture of instinctive self-protection. The subject, a student at the college where Lowly teaches, was unknown to him before he asked her to sit for the portrait. After making one small preliminary sketch, Lowly began the drawing on a large piece of gessoed museum board, which he initially ruled off for the portrait; later he decided to enlarge the composition to cover the entire sheet.
The model’s pose had been finalized and the portrait was well under way before Lowly learned the details of K’s harrowing life history. Although the facts remain confidential, the drawing’s compositional elements suggest an atmosphere of psychological disturbance: K wears a wounded, wary expression on her face. She is pretty, but her disheveled hair and her shapeless coat seem deliberately intended to disguise her attractiveness. In the background, bits of classroom paraphernalia (an eraser at the base of a chalkboard, the edge of a book or canvas) become players in an uneasy balancing act of angular forms that contrast with the soft, curving shapes of the figure."
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Portrait of K
Portrait of K, Tim Lowly © 2006, drawing on toned paper, 19" x 14.5". Private collection.
Here is an excerpt from an article by Joseph C. Skrapits in which he writes about this drawing:
"In Portrait of K, a recent charcoal drawing by Tim Lowly, a young woman clutches her coat in a gesture of instinctive self-protection. The subject, a student at the college where Lowly teaches, was unknown to him before he asked her to sit for the portrait. After making one small preliminary sketch, Lowly began the drawing on a large piece of gessoed museum board, which he initially ruled off for the portrait; later he decided to enlarge the composition to cover the entire sheet.
The model’s pose had been finalized and the portrait was well under way before Lowly learned the details of K’s harrowing life history. Although the facts remain confidential, the drawing’s compositional elements suggest an atmosphere of psychological disturbance: K wears a wounded, wary expression on her face. She is pretty, but her disheveled hair and her shapeless coat seem deliberately intended to disguise her attractiveness. In the background, bits of classroom paraphernalia (an eraser at the base of a chalkboard, the edge of a book or canvas) become players in an uneasy balancing act of angular forms that contrast with the soft, curving shapes of the figure."
Read the rest of the article here
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