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Tapestry Topics Feature Article
A Quarterly Review of Tapestry Art Today
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page 5
Summer 2004, Vol 30 No 2
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Janet Austin, Life Drawing Group, 32" x 71", 1993
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The tapestry representing Janet Austin in the “meet our volunteers” section of ATA’s website is also a nude derived from a sketch. When asked why she selected that image, she stated that it was one of only a few digital images available to send in and was simply the one the layout person selected to use. She also pointed out: “but, really, life drawing is the bedrock of art education, don't you think? ” Created a decade ago, it is part of a larger piece Life Drawing Group. For her, the term “life drawing” does not refer specifically to the practice of drawing from a live model but that she is “drawing from LIFE.” It is the motion and energy of sketching that intrigues Austin and the quartet of graceful and gestural line drawings captures that vitality well.
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Marti Fleischer’s choice to use nudes “reverts to my days as a student when I enjoyed life drawing classes and felt the human body was the most challenging form for an artist”. She quotes Robert Henri in The Art Spirit (page 47) “There is nothing in the world more beautiful or significant of the laws of the universe than the nude human body.” Fleischer likes to work in series and “enjoys becoming familiar with the subject by repeatedly weaving the same subject in different settings.”
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above left: Marti Fleischer, Introspection 1,
above right: Marti Fleischer, Untitled Nude, 29" x 30"
below left: Marti Fleischer, For Laurel, 6" x 3"
below right: Marti Fleischer, Is This Where I Was Going?, 34" x 22"
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