The artworks in this discussion are Au Natural by Sarah Lucas and Praying Hands by Albrecht Dürer. Au Natural is a composition of an old mattress, with a water bucket, a cucumber, two oranges and two melons in a space like a room or gallery. The objects are depicting male and female private parts, where the female body part is on the left hand-side and male body part is located on the right. The old mattress used has some grooves on it and some holes were made to hold the melons. Meanwhile, the artwork by Albrecht Dürer is a drawing of a pair of hand in a praying gesture where each fingers meeting the other pair. The hand could be an adult man’s or a woman’s from the first sight but it is a man’s hand. Even though it is not seen but it can be assumed that the body of the person is on the right because of the position of the hands are to the left with the sleeves folded drawn.
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The things were arranged to suggest a pair of breast (the two melons), female genital (the water bucket) and male genitals (cucumber and oranges). It was arranged in a space with white wall and grey floor. The art supposed is in landscape frame. The scale is 84 x 168 x 145cm. It is not drawn like the Praying Hands instead it is a composition of several real objects. The techniques used for Praying Hands it was drawn on a blue-coloured paper with black ink and white ink. The hands were shaded with cross-hatching to create a form that shows the differences of the two hands overlapping. The fingers at the front were also shaded with white ink to create the sense of being the most front. The veins on the left hand was also highlighted but with mid-tones. The white ink gives some sort of impression that there was light shown to the hands and even the sleeve. The art is in portrait frame. The scale is 29.1 x 19.7cm almost the same size as an A4 paper (Prepressure.com,
The things were arranged to suggest a pair of breast (the two melons), female genital (the water bucket) and male genitals (cucumber and oranges). It was arranged in a space with white wall and grey floor. The art supposed is in landscape frame. The scale is 84 x 168 x 145cm. It is not drawn like the Praying Hands instead it is a composition of several real objects. The techniques used for Praying Hands it was drawn on a blue-coloured paper with black ink and white ink. The hands were shaded with cross-hatching to create a form that shows the differences of the two hands overlapping. The fingers at the front were also shaded with white ink to create the sense of being the most front. The veins on the left hand was also highlighted but with mid-tones. The white ink gives some sort of impression that there was light shown to the hands and even the sleeve. The art is in portrait frame. The scale is 29.1 x 19.7cm almost the same size as an A4 paper (Prepressure.com,