On the use of axonometric drawings by artist Paul Noble.
Paul Noble axonometric drawings are vast. Several meters across, they deal with the landscape, the territory, whilst remaining very architectural in their inception through a careful assemblage of volumes and an attention to one and every minute details. Although the individual elements are very much three dimensional, the overall drawings, by their format and the extent they cover, remain, almost paradoxically, flat. Something between an axo and a map, not unlike the first birds eye views developed in the late 17th century – see Johannes Kip’s drawing below
article on Paul Noble’s exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery in 2011:
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/nov/15/paul-noble-nobson-review
Paul Noble, Nobson
Jan Kip & Leonard Knyff, Wollaton Hall Gardens