Only when you buy a car do you then see all the other cars on the road like yours. I am having this same experience since I started Transparent Drawing. Now I find examples all the time of the use of the word transparent in the media. Business Name There is a website titled transparent […]
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29Sep
2015
YOU HAVE TO START SOMEWHERE
2015
I like to look at the basic geometries of Le Corbusier’s paintings for inspiration for my drawings. The image above was loosely structured around this painting, titled Icone 3, by Corb. When you find an artist that you like, and this can be any artist in any medium, you develop a comfortable knowledge of their […]
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28Sep
2015
VISUAL CAUSALITY
2015
It is accepted wisdom that we base our understanding of the world on repeated observations of cause and effect. Billiard balls will bounce off of each other in a very predictable way. The coffee will be hot right after it comes out of the coffee maker. One ball causes another ball to move. The coffee […]
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25Sep
2015
NO TRANSPARENT PAINTING
2015
This is the last post on the Rowe and Slutsky essay that we have been following this week. Rowe and Slutsky focus solely on oil painting in their discussion of Literal and Phenomenal transparency. They search for transparency in Cubist paintings. They talk about the shallow space that is created in these works. And of […]
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24Sep
2015
THE MEDIUM IS THE MASSAGE
2015
In a previous post, we considered Rowe and Slutsky’s Literal and Phenomenal transparency meditation on the picture plane. (Rowe & Slutzky, Transparency, Literal and Phenomenal) After their clear and interesting description of the two types of transparencies that they imagine, the essay tends to dissolve into artspeak. Not that I blame them, as they try […]
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23Sep
2015
CHURCH OF THE LIGHT
2015
It turns out, there is more to this iconic piece of architecture than the cruciform end wall. It turns out that there are two walls in this building with a cruciform end wall. It also turns out that this building has a separate yet highly integrated form that functions as a school. There is an […]
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21Sep
2015
LANGUAGE OF TRANSPARENCY
2015
Please consider the following passage from Kepes’ Language of Vision; “If one sees two or more figures overlapping one another, and each of them claims for itself the common overlapped part, then one is confronted with a contradiction of spatial dimensions. To resolve this contradiction one must assume the presence of a new optical quality. […]
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18Sep
2015
TECHNIQUE DESIGN
2015
Technique is culturally biased. We have already established that there is a cultural approbation of drawing technique. Since drawing controls how we think, then how we design is culturally engrained. And this is difficult to see when accepted practice, or technique, is contiguous with the culture that it springs from. As has been said before […]
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16Sep
2015
TRANSPARENT DRAWING METHOD
2015
What if we were taught form generation simply for the enjoyment of form generation? What if we were given the tools, an approach, a philosophy for pure enclosure and form generation? This would be irrespective of any sort of program. The forms would have to close. That is, the form would need to be buildable […]
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