Sherlock

catalog
1 exhibition
st
2013
• Eyes panel
• Lips panel
• Aida
• Sveva
• New York 1974
• Berlin 1977
• Gemello
• Molko
• Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock
• Tattoo
• Teardrop on the fire
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1st exhibition catalog Barbara Bright
Last updates made in October 2014
Cover “Kiss” by B. Bright. 2013
Graphic design B. Bright & RS Kmiec studios
Design by Erick Ragas & B. Bright
Index
Cover
Works
Anatomic studies
Portraits
03 Index
12 Eyes panel
18 Lips panel
26 - 27 Aida
05 Bio
13 Valentina
19 Kiss
28 - 29 Sveva
07 Drawing
14 Dream
20 Angelina
30 - 31 New York 1974
09 Introduction
15 Surprise!
21 First
32 - 33 Berlin 1977
16 Cry
22 Grin
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Gemello
17 Bluestsky
23 Hyperlips
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Molko
36 - 37 Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock
38 Tattoo
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Teardrop on the fire
40 Credits and thanks
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Bio
01 Barbara Bright “artist of reason and dreams”
Barbara Bright Cardone - known by her stage name
Barbara Bright - is a “twenty-year-old” new artist.
She is inspired by the hyperrealism current, interpreting it with personal style, especially in view of
women who are represented with more sensitivity
in regard to the historical figures of the movement.
The naturalness with which she faces the creative
development in every project and her technical background, qualifies her as a visual artist of great potential: but her works define her, quoting Thomas Mann,
“artist of reason and dreams”. She shares, using the
most popular social networks,tips and tricks about
the use of materials and the techniques of figurative
composition in drawing.
She experiences with paint, colored pencils and ink,
using in a unique way blenders and graphite powder
of different hardness, refining the shading techniques
with the aim to better define different skin types. She
is focused on eyes and lips, composing two anatomic
panels of five pieces each. She worked a long time
on the human iris, to make it more liquid and transparent. To draw lips, she puts up a grid that follows
the natural skin folds, such as volume rendering used
for the realization of architectural models. With these
methods, she is able to obtain hyperrealistic effects,
placing Barbara to the attention of the experts.
To finance her university studies at the Faculty
of Letters and Philosophy, she realizes portraits
on request and she offers training workshops.
She lives and studies in Umbria, the green heart of
Italy.
Nineteen of her works, realized between 2008 and
2013, were on display for the first time at Palazzo del
Capitano in Todi, at the invitation of Town Councillorship for Culture, from 20th April 2013 to 1st May
2013: the catalog resumes this experience.
www.barbarabright.com
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Drawing
02 Just a pencil
“Beside a constant study, oriented in parallel to the
stylistic experimentation and the technical improvement, I have always wanted to preserve a space without any excessive use of technology. As a monastery,
inaccessible and independent, where it’s admitted
only what it’s produced with one’s own strength. In
this ideal space, I have only a pencil that tries to challenge my abilities day by day: with it, i reduce the
expressive possibilities, trying to belong to the whole
humanity, with no distinctions.
Because in every house there’s a pencil or an other
instrument that leaves a mark: in an isolated village
of the contemporary China, as in Wang Bing’s representations, or in New York, capital city and point of
reference of the modern society.
In this way, the pencil becomes the most democratic
instrument because, using it, it can be shown to everyone the life we’re going through, with intensity”.
Perugia, 1st April 2013
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Introduction
Barbara Bright above photorealism
In Giorgio Vasari’s opinion, drawing is the father of three arts, founding principle and generating place of the masterpieces of painting, sculpture and architecture.
“Not a day without a line drawn!”, said the mythological Apelle to this disciples, to underline the importance of drawing as a routinary activity of the artist. A custom
enphatized from the masters of Renaissance, as Leonardo, Raffaello and Michelangelo, excellent drawers before even to be painters, architects or sculptors. Barbara
Bright assorbed their models with precision and thruth. After that, her way of drawing changed, acquiring the qualities of an expressive and autonomous language.
It actually has a complex identity: not only graphic exerxise, but also figurative research, laboratory of thought, interior writing and planning space.
Barbara Bright’s artworks redeem all those artists that explore and privilege the signing dimension of art, where the mark becomes symbolic vocabulary of a mysterious and autonomous language, that surpass photorealism itself. (K. Brooks)
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Works
Anatomic studies
• Eyes panel
• Lips panel
• Valentina
• Dream
• Surprise!
• Cry
• Bluestsky
• Kiss
• Angelina
• First
• Grin
• Hyperlips
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Eyes
Aximili gnimetur
Tum faccabo rrores et eaquiat. Aximili gnimetur?
Quiatet omnistrum quatur? Os alicitae nati conse
pla venis si sum que plabo. Ignatemquae in nulparum eati conet quos ulpa dolest imenemp oremodi isquam quunt arcipitatur? Suntotatur am harit
quam videm aut quatur, inimolores dit laborempos
magnatio Gia non exped etur? Et asped qui dolo mo
eosse es ente lamus, quam, et vera aut es sin niet
volum es.
Anatomic studies
It is said that the most complex anatomic element to
draw is the hand: but the eyes capture all our attention. Technical research reaches levels of absolute
virtuosism, but full of intensity. With these worksis
reached an amazing photorealism without any ostentation, narrating in each work a different story.
Valentina
Valentina. Graphite powder and Derwent and
Fila pencils on Fabriano smooth sheet.
Dimensions cm 33x33. Year 2013.
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Dream
Dream. Graphite powder and Derwent and
Fila pencils on Fabriano smooth sheet.
Dimensions cm 33x33. Year 2013.
Surprise!
Surprise! Graphite powder and Derwent and
Fila pencils on Fabriano smooth sheet.
Dimensions cm 29x29. Year 2013.
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Cry
Cry. Graphite powder and Derwent and Fila
pencils on Fabriano smooth sheet.
Dimensions cm 33x33. Year 2013.
Bluestsky
Bluestsky. Graphite powder and Derwent and
Fila pencils on Fabriano smooth sheet.
Dimensions cm 33x33. Year 2013.
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Lips
Anatomic studies
Five anatomic studies of feminine lips, deformed
and streched, in order to obtain impressive realistic
effects using pencil. The aesthetic canons are contemporary, independent from the different cultures.
Kiss
Kiss. Graphite powder and Derwent and Fila
pencils on Fabriano smooth sheet.
Dimensions cm 33x33. Year 2013.
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Angelina
Angelina. Graphite powder and Derwent and
Fila pencils on Fabriano smooth sheet.
Dimensions cm 33x33. Year 2013.
First
First. Graphite powder and Derwent and Fila
pencils on Fabriano smooth sheet.
Dimensions cm 29x29. Year 2013.
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Grin
Grin. Graphite powder and Derwent and Fila
pencils on Fabriano smooth sheet.
Dimensions cm 33x33. Year 2013.
Hyperlips
Hyperlips. Graphite powder and Derwent and
Fila pencils on Fabriano smooth sheet.
Dimensions cm 33x33. Year 2013.
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Portraits
• Aida
• Sveva
• New York 1974
• Berlin 1977
• Gemello
• Molko
• Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock
• Tattoo
• Teardrop on the fire
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Detail
Aida
Aida (on syrian civil war): Drawing on Bristol
smooth sheet with Derwent, Staedler Mars Lumograph pencils and graphite.
Dimensions cm 50 x 100. Year 2013.
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dettaglio
Detail
Sveva
Sveva: Derwent and Fila pencils,
graphite powder on Fabriano smooth sheet.
Dimensions cm 33 x 48. Year 2013.
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Bob Gruen photo
New York 74
Facing the myths without deference, composing and melting
down, without caging ourselves
in defined models. On the background there’s the Chrysler building, whose story talks about the
triumph of the stylistic idea of the
architect Van Allen and, at the
same time, of his impotence in front
of the refuse of the buyer to pay
his work. Art and power against
each other also in the figurative
composition, that intentionally intensifies the perspective of the sky
scraper, with a cloudy sky behind
it. Lennon’s face stays unchanged:
it is inspired by a famous photo of
Gruen.
In this way, it’s offered an original
point of view of myths that still continue to be heavily overexposed.
New York 74: Freehand drawing.
Fila pencils on Fabriano smooth sheet.
Dimensions cm 30x40. Year 2009.
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Sketch
Berlin 77 was realized in 2009 to celebrate the fall of Berlin’s wall. In the first
sketch, the idea was conceived on dimensions that overtook the two metres of
lenght. Work in progress, the drawing was downsized and finished rapidly in freehand.
The choice of Bowie was made for its presence in the German capital at a time
when Europe seemed to have been accepted the existence of a wall that divided
a nation. The singer represents also the ability to rise again from the ravages of life
against all odds of others, also embodying all the contradictions of his time.
Detail
Berlin 1977
Since the beginning of 2009 , there
were announced major initiatives for
the twentieth anniversary of the fall
of the Berlin Wall. In 1977, Bowie was
in West Berlin; the rich and risen from
the rubble of a disastrous war. He recorded there the musical trilogy that
would make him famous; Low, Heroes
and Lodger, albums that have transformed the image of Berlin in the last
half century.
The anticipation of the historical event
is captured in the words of Bowie, reported in the shelter of the wall destined to fall. In the background the
profile of the Fernsehturm, literally “television tower”, 368 meters high, built
mainly for political reasons in the sixties
by the Russian occupiers in the east of
the city.
Berlin 1977: Freehand drawing. Sanguine,
Derwent 6220 and Fila pencils on Bristol
smooth sheet. Cm 47x65. Nov 2009.
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Gemello
Gemello: Mixed media sketch. Fila pencils
and chinese ink on A4 paper sheet.
Cm 21x29.7. Year 2012.
Molko
Molko: Freehand drawing with graphite
powder and Fila pencils on Fabriano smooth
sheet. Dimensions cm 30x38. Year 2008.
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A graphic style portrait
All has to do with London in this portrait of Benedict Cumberbatch, who
played the most modern Sherlock Holmes ever seen. From pencil’s hades
of gray to the monochromatic deep black, that also refers to the content of
certain adventures of Holmes. The graphic atmosphere of the finished work
strengthens the character.
From the pencil to the graphite powder, from the graphite powder to the ink. The
artist exacerbates conflicts and lights up the sky in the background, allowing you
to recognize London’s skyline.
Benedict Cumberbatch
as Sherlock
Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock:
Pelikan black ink.
Dimensions cm 30x40. Year 2009.
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Tattoo
Tattoo: Freehand drawing. Themagraf
colored pencils on A4 paper sheet.
Cm 21x29.7. Year 2012.
Teardrop
on the
fire
Teardrop on the fire: Sketch with sanguine,
Derwent 6220 and Fila pencils on Fabriano
smooth sheet. Cm 20x30. Year 2013.
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Credits and Thanks
The lips portrayed in the work “Angelina” belongs to the Californian actress Angelina Jolie.
The face portrayed in the work “Aida” was inspired by a photo of war reporter Rodrigo Abt
The face portrayed in the work “Tattoo” was inspired by a photo of Robert Recker
The face of John Lennon portrayed in the work “NY 74” was inspired by a photo of Robert Gruen
The face of David Bowie portrayed in the work “Berlin 77” is inspired by a filming picture from the film ‘The Man Who Fell to Earth’
The face in the work “Molko” portrays the Anglo-American Belgian-born artist Brian Molko
The face portrait of Benedict Cumberbatch in the work of the same name was inspired by a filmong picture of the British series of the BBC’s Sherlock.
The face in the work “Gemello” portrays the roman artist Andrea Ambrogio
Cover “Kiss” by B. Bright. 2013.
Graphic design by B. Bright & RS Kmiec studios
Design by B. Bright e Erick Ragas
If you are interested in this exhibition catalog, it can be provided on request and, depending on availability,
in hard copy, by writing to barbara.bright@yahoo.com
Last updates made in October 2014
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