Monthly Archive: March 2017

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DRAWING NOT DRAWING

There are four requirements for a drawing, an analogue drawing.  Pencil.  Paper.  Hand.  Brain.   If any of these items are missing, it is not a drawing. If to make your image, you input digitally,...

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ANALOGUE DRAWING

So what do we mean by analogue drawing?  These pages use this term frequently.  What are the minimum requirements of analogue drawing? Physicality.  Physical gesture.  Bodily act.  Drawing must provide and maintain a direct,...

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FORM COMBINE

Make a drawing that combines two projected forms of one artist. In our continuing search for fresh form and enclosure generation, let’s consider what I call Form Combine. This results in a transparent drawing...

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POST-DIGITAL DRAWING

In Metropolis Magazine, Sam Jacob wrote a piece titled Architecture Enters the Age of Post-Digital Drawing. The concept of the article is that, in the beginning, architects drew.  Then the juggernaut of the machine...

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THINKING ABOUT LANGUAGE

“The more I think about language, the more it amazes me that people ever understand each other at all.”  Kurt Gödel.  Wang, Hao. From Mathematics to Philosophy, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1974.  p. 95

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INFORMED OR INVENTIVE

Your Transparent Drawing is either informed or inventive. INFORMED Informed drawing documents what you know.  For example, a few pages ago, we addressed the SURVEY DRAWING.  A survey drawing is informed drawing:  you use...

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TIME

Transparent Drawing cannot exist without time. CUBIST TIME Cubism offered the first new way to show time and space on a two dimensional surface since Alberti.  Cubism, in it’s anti representational formula, shows opaque...

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DRAW WHAT YOU KNOW

Peter Eisenman: “…to allow the subject to have a vision of space that can no longer be put together in the normalizing, classicizing or traditional construct of vision.”   “A possible first step in conceptualizing...

HOUSE NOT HOUSE 0

HOUSE NOT HOUSE

Would our art be advanced if we eliminated nouns from our design vocabulary? Bachelard advises us that if we want to find the essence of something, we should look to the adjectives. He writes...

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SURVEY DRAWING

The act of seeing is one of creation. When we see a building, we need to open ourselves to as wide a bandwith as possible.  Belardi, in his “No Day Without a Line” lecture...

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CHOICE

The removal of choice. How many art theories have had, as a central precept, the removal of choice?   Why have many modernist artists been concerned with the removal of choice?  Who were they? To...

SET YOURSELF UP FOR FAILURE 0

SET YOURSELF UP FOR FAILURE

In many instances, I never know how my drawing is going to turn out. That’s because I try to incorporate new means and methods whenever I have a new idea. We have talked about...

PERCEPTION AND IMAGINATION 0

PERCEPTION AND IMAGINATION

Is there a difference between perception and imagination?  That is to ask, is the feeling of perception and the feeling of imagination similar? Let’s think for a moment about the everyday act of perception. ...

FRESH FORMS IN TWO EASY STEPS 0

FRESH FORMS IN TWO EASY STEPS

You can achieve a fresh conception of a new form in two easy steps. STEP ONE In this example, for the first step, I started with an image of one of the Poetic Immortals....