Lucinda Rodgers is an artist who depicts city scenes using line drawings with the addition of colourings in some cases she uses watercolours and in others she uses a block colour background I chose to look into the work of Lucinda Rodgers as creating forms of buildings interests me.
Lucinda Rodgers work often shows urban environments with lots of colour used such as in the image. I chose this image as it captures her style which connotes lively and atmospheric environments this is shown by the small parts of colours applied the colours also cause a strong contrast with the black lines that act as outlines showing depth. Her work also portrays a concept style which is can be used for architectural and design for film and television purposes, this image belongs to the postmodernism style as it captures different styles of life in an environment which conveys the meaning of the public. It almost fall within the Art Noveau style as it is similar to Theophile Stienlen as it has been heavy illustrative feel as well as the watercolour being similar to the stained glass background. This image can also relate to Experimental Jetset as it plays with modernism in a post-modernistic way.
As Rodgers style carries on throughout the majority of her work only small differences are changed yet they still make a an visual imprint and make it easily visible to see what has changed, such as in this image she has used negative space to her advantage by simply using a plain white background instead of illustrating the sky this can be seen as modernist as there is no reason to illustrate the sky so it could be interpreted as function as she had only set out to illustrate the buildings and ground level rather than focusing on the sky which is form. Once again Rodgers has used a postmodern style similar to the work of Jean Michael Basquit as there are heavy handed marks to show depth as well as showing a sketch like illustration. Unlike the image above colour is used more conservatively as well as using duller colours. As the image doesn’t use full colour and the lines are not all connecting it could be said that the image is possessing styles of a dreamlike state such as the work of Salvidor Dali and Freudian phsycoanalysis.
This image depicts a concept drawing from an architectural point of view showing modernist styled building merging in with older buildings which would eventually turn it into a post modernistic style such as the Sony building with its Chippendale dresser roof. Unlike the other images this image is using full colour to give the ‘client’ a greater understanding of what the finished project will look like in its pretext using sketched people walking by. This image falls into realism as she is illustrating pre-existing buildings and what is being created.
