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 allowed his ideas to spring freely from his mind to the sheet, guided in equal parts by observation and intuition. In […]
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28Oct
2016
NATIONAL WORDS
2016
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 how about a party platform of nothing but drawings? Words. Our National Decision is fundamentally about words. What they mean. What […]
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26Oct
2016
LETTING EVERYONE HAVE IT
2016
“There’s no going back, and there’s no hiding the information. So let everyone have it.” ― Andrew Kantor Transparency is the total divulgence of information. When we draw, we let everyone have it.
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24Oct
2016
REPRESENTATION SYNONYMS
2016
I was surprised to learn that synonyms for representation include painting, drawing, illustration, and sketch. Of course part of the mission of Transparent Drawing is an attack on representation. A quick refresher can be found on the pages titled DRAWING WITHOUT REPRESENTATION and BETWEEN CONCEPTION AND REPRESENTATION. I guess I had never gone as far […]
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21Oct
2016
PAINTING DIMENSIONALIZATION
2016
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 dimensionalization. What is painting dimensionalization? All you do is find a painting that interests you. And then you use it for […]
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19Oct
2016
I’M LOOKING THRU YOU
2016
“Telling the difference between transparent and invisible is an acquired skill. Until you’ve practiced, you can’t make the choice between looking through and looking at.” ― David Whiteland, Book of Pages In Transparent Drawing, transparency and invisibility are not binary. In TD, we look at to look thru.
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17Oct
2016
FORTIFIED CHURCHES
2016
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. Formwise, at first there was the rectangular church. And then to fortify it, the curved towers were put on one end. […]
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14Oct
2016
I FANTASIZE
2016
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 throw together pages for Transparent Drawing. I thought this up. But then I’ve thought many things up over the years. We […]
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12Oct
2016
CUBIST TRANSPARENCY
2016
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 with which the Cubists worked hit me again just now. I was scrolling thru a series of Picasso’s paintings, and came […]
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10Oct
2016
WHAT DOES GOOGLE KNOW, ANYWAY
2016
Try it yourself. Type Transparent Buildings into Google and see what comes up. I just did and this is what the top of the page looked like. An Apple Cube, one of the buildings that made Friday’s page, is there. You wonder how Glass House could not be. Then there is Renzo Piano’s Reichstag; that’s […]
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