FRAGONARD AT THE MET
We just saw the drawing show, Fragonard Drawing Triumphant, at the Met. From the text on the wall as you enter the show, “Drawing was a natural medium for Jean Honore’ Fragonard (1732-1808). It...
Monthly Archive: October 2016
NATIONAL WORDS
Wouldn’t it be great if National Decisions could be made based on drawings rather than words? Can you imagine having strong opinions about a set of sketches, rather than a set of words? Or...
PAINTING DIMENSIONALIZATION
These pages have taken many directions. Yet one that I keep coming back to is using the oil paintings of Le Corbusier and Picasso as generators for my Transparent Drawings. Let’s call this painting...
FORTIFIED CHURCHES
Here is a new building type, fortified churches. When in Croatia, we came upon this incredible example in Vrboska on the island of Hvar. The name of the church is St. Mary of Mercy. ...
I FANTASIZE
I’ve been doing this for about three years now. Three years seems like nothing. Like they say, it is never work when you enjoy what you do. And it never feels like work to...
CUBIST TRANSPARENCY
It still seems amazing to me that the Cubists did not work transparently. we have touched on this concept some time ago, see the link to the page titled NO TRANSPARENT PAINTING. The opacity...
WHO WOULD HAVE LIKED TRANSPARENT DRAWING?
Corb, for one. He of course considered himself a painter first. And his daily painting was a basic exercise in composition, completion, balance, form, etc. Admittedly his paintings were opaque. Yet I think he...
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