İLKEЯ ORTAÇ

İlker Ortaç / Drawing archive

Long Haired Red Nude Figure: drawing and available formats

Long Haired Red Nude Figure · İlker Ortaç
Long Haired Red Nude Figure · İlker Ortaç

Looking at the image

Long hair and red light outline an inward-bending body. A raised arm hides part of the head and interrupts the frontal pose.

Traces of drawing, encounters between colors and individual character are central to İlker Ortaç’s portraits and figures. The image can be approached through the way a face or body is constructed, as well as through whom it represents.

From life to creative practice

İlker Ortaç does not reduce his experience of disability to a story inviting pity or applause. How bodies are seen, who is excluded and who defines normality are central questions in his artist statement.

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From making to presentation

  1. Image source: the drawing is presented through the existing portfolio image or original-artwork record.
  2. Form: color, line, gaze and framing are explored in the visual notes on this page.
  3. Presentation: matching files, prints or objects are shown through separate product guides.

Creative approach

From the studio: a creative reconstruction

A first-person creative reconstruction drawing on the biography and artworks.

I imagine removing the invisible ruler that tells a body where it should begin and end. A shoulder, a beard and an item of clothing should not have to agree. I enlarge their encounter, then leave it somewhere the gaze cannot immediately escape.

Working around Long Haired Red Nude Figure, my attention returns to this detail: Long hair and red light outline an inward-bending body. A raised arm hides part of the head and interrupts the frontal pose. In the next passage, I imagine pulling back anything that weakens that encounter and leaving the areas holding its tension open for longer.

I want to consider the work from a distance for a while, then return to the same small detail. Imagining its different formats side by side, I try to keep the trace that stopped me in the first place.

Products using this drawing

Explore this drawing on different surfaces. Each product guide brings together its format, listed dimensions and shop link, so you can compare how the image is placed as it moves from drawing to object.

Choosing a format

Formats observed for this design: digital artwork download, paper art print. Digital files, paper reproductions and physical objects are different products. Choose the image first, then the way you want to use it. Printed area and cropping may change between surfaces.

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