KH Artist Research Journal

Contemporary artist, Adam Dant is known for his detailed pen and ink drawings. He was born in Britain in 1967. If you looked at his worked purely from the institutional aspect, he is extremely relevant, his work is part of the collections in MOMA New York and the Tate Britain. He sketches the daily life of people in the UK and uses those sketches as inspiration for his large drawings. He classifies his work as narrative and tableau. I didn't know what tableau really was, so I looked it up. Basically its definition is exactly what Dant's work is: a group of models or motionless figures representing a scene from a story or from history.  The thing I like most about his work is his attention to detail and the fact that his drawings are line drawings. The other thing I think is really cool is that in some of his work the images seem to be historical, if you look at them closely, they seem to be non-era specific. Like they could've happened 100 years ago or tomorrow. Th