Today artist are using drawing in other aspects, the conceptual and theoretical discourse that allow the artist to communicate in a loose way. Today the use of this media isn’t conferred to a set of rules on what drawing is, but rather in its capacity of talking and thinking in a particular way.
This media expresses authenticity and freedom.[me1]
This processed-based medium also connects the artist with physical world and connects the viewer with the artist.
These appealing components are today described and used by contemporary artists and also in the way that drawing is conceived of, made, used and categorized by some institutions or critics.
Much of the contemporary artists express ideas from the romantic surrealism period.
The storyteller, the narrator and the poet are today used in visual arts most concretely in the drawing scene.
Themes such as liberty, the sublime, emotion, intuition, the romantic, the vernacular and ephemeral are also the more common choices.
Artists such as Zak Smith’s and Elizabeth Peyton’s uses drawing like an analogue narrative of the revolution on the music scene. Based on photographs from magazines or books the hairstyles, the music instruments, the loved ones are a part of his subject matter. Their artwork is an intimate diary of fandom and friendship.
Raimond Chaves uses drawing like conceptual artists used photography in the 1960’s 1970’s using drawing as vehicle to convey information about social conditions.
Jim Shaw, Andrea Bowers and Julian Hoeber uses words such as appropriation, to describe his work with his second hand drawing “copy’s”, referring to a pop-ish style of tracing the contours already made from a picture. Bowered techniques from similar disciplines such as illustration and product design, felt-tip pen, ink, pencil and other medias are used to make pictures of pictures. The gradation of tone and the equality of lights and darks are extracted from the internal contents of photographs. This bypass from originality, are not the focus of these artist but rather the aesthetics of sensibility that are rotted on those already existing drawings.[me2]
Kai Althoff, Kara Walker uses drawing to convey popular culture and national culture opting to use figurative style, intimate scenes, sensibility, melancholy, loss and some pleasure.
Similar to illustration this could fall into the derogatory context of art, however these artists and more such as Shahzia Sikander and Jockum Nordstrom embrace this figurative drawing and styles of vernacular illustration with purpose and without sarcasm.
They are Romantic in inspiration and representative of storytelling, folk and novel’s, however they are not made to comply with a brief that as being commissioned.
They are easy to understand close to traditional methods with genuine expression to create delicate contemporary work and according to "Walter Benjamin, one measure of an artwork is its accessibility."[me3]
Drawing now can be from all types the connotative, the denotative; from the performative or narrative its emancipation is welcome now with the fine art context.
Swiss contemporary artist, Ugo Rondinome produces a distinctive depiction of nature directly onto his tiny sketchbook. Rondinone’s drawings come directly from nature and are later on at the studio-appropriated enlargements of his journeys on the landscape and Swiss Alpes.[me4
Ugo light and dark method to get close to the natural elements of nature, they have a feeling of chiaroscuro, charcoal, inky drawing.
