Shmuel Amos Mann Sketches
Shmuel Amos Mann Sketches
Shmuel Amos Mann Sketches
Shmuel Amos Mann Sketches
Friday, June 19, 2009
Human forms
Shmuel Amos Mann Sketches
Shmuel Amos Mann Sketches
Shmuel Amos Mann Sketches
Shmuel Amos Mann Sketches
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Model, Sculptures and Sketches
Model of Synagogue I Designed
Sculptures
More Sketches I Made
Sketches of Samuel Amos Mann
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Opening Statement
As in anything new, there needs to be a time of adjustment and learning. So too is this Blogging thing for me!
I have titled my blog "Freedom from Lines" because for so many years- both in school and out of school- I have struggled against the linear world in relation to the visual arts and architecture. For me the line is just a tool, not the essense of the drawing. My desire has always been to try and bring the observer into my world by feeling the drawing inside. By understanding the life within the drawing, be it a sketch of an animal, person, object or structure, the onlooker will become a friend of the drawing and feel what I saw in my mind's eye before the pencil hit the paper.
Walt Disney and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (a famous architect in the mid 1900's) had something interesting in common. Disney felt that there is beauty in a drawing which was simple but at the same time, full of life. Van der Rohe was known for his simple forms in design, and his belief that "less is more." In other words, the small simple details would show the life of the structure in a more beautiful way than spending time and money in designing extra forms to provide the same- if not less- space.
Disney and Van der Rohe felt the same about lines and forms. The life and character of the forms drawn and built are not in the line, but in the forms they represent.
Another great artist and inventor, Leonardo Da Vinci once said;
"Represent your figures in such action as may be fitted to express what purpose is in the mind of each; otherwise, your art will not be admirable."
That is what I have tried to do in my artwork, and will always continue to try and present.
A little history about me:
In 1992 I began my journey into animation when I was excepted to the prestigious school of CalArts in Valencia Ca., on a wing and a prayer...literally. I came to CalArts with a flimsy portfolio, to say it nicely, and met with Glenn Vilpu, then the acting Director of the school of Film and Video in the Character Animation Dept. I just walked in. No appointment, and no hope of getting my portfolio seen in time for acceptance into the Fall program. It was July 1992. I met Glenn on his way out the door, and asked him for a few minutes of his time to look at my work. He was so kind, and said he had 2 minutes. He opened up my portfolio and flipped through all 30 pages in as many seconds. He said, very nice and thank you, and was about to leave me when he asked to see the folio again. I handed it back, and he opened it to one specific drawing- which I did no more than 2 days before. It was a drawing I did of a squirrel jumping from a tree in the park. He closed the portfolio again and told me I am in! There was one more opening for the class (only 30 students accepted per year), and I was the last one accepted for 1992!! Accepted based on that one drawing I did in the last moments before I took the long trip down to Valencia from Merced!
I have titled my blog "Freedom from Lines" because for so many years- both in school and out of school- I have struggled against the linear world in relation to the visual arts and architecture. For me the line is just a tool, not the essense of the drawing. My desire has always been to try and bring the observer into my world by feeling the drawing inside. By understanding the life within the drawing, be it a sketch of an animal, person, object or structure, the onlooker will become a friend of the drawing and feel what I saw in my mind's eye before the pencil hit the paper.
Walt Disney and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (a famous architect in the mid 1900's) had something interesting in common. Disney felt that there is beauty in a drawing which was simple but at the same time, full of life. Van der Rohe was known for his simple forms in design, and his belief that "less is more." In other words, the small simple details would show the life of the structure in a more beautiful way than spending time and money in designing extra forms to provide the same- if not less- space.
Disney and Van der Rohe felt the same about lines and forms. The life and character of the forms drawn and built are not in the line, but in the forms they represent.
Another great artist and inventor, Leonardo Da Vinci once said;
"Represent your figures in such action as may be fitted to express what purpose is in the mind of each; otherwise, your art will not be admirable."
That is what I have tried to do in my artwork, and will always continue to try and present.
A little history about me:
In 1992 I began my journey into animation when I was excepted to the prestigious school of CalArts in Valencia Ca., on a wing and a prayer...literally. I came to CalArts with a flimsy portfolio, to say it nicely, and met with Glenn Vilpu, then the acting Director of the school of Film and Video in the Character Animation Dept. I just walked in. No appointment, and no hope of getting my portfolio seen in time for acceptance into the Fall program. It was July 1992. I met Glenn on his way out the door, and asked him for a few minutes of his time to look at my work. He was so kind, and said he had 2 minutes. He opened up my portfolio and flipped through all 30 pages in as many seconds. He said, very nice and thank you, and was about to leave me when he asked to see the folio again. I handed it back, and he opened it to one specific drawing- which I did no more than 2 days before. It was a drawing I did of a squirrel jumping from a tree in the park. He closed the portfolio again and told me I am in! There was one more opening for the class (only 30 students accepted per year), and I was the last one accepted for 1992!! Accepted based on that one drawing I did in the last moments before I took the long trip down to Valencia from Merced!
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