FORM COMBINE 2
Here is another Form Combine. This is the result of the combination, or overlay, of two Henry Moore drawing projection. The drawing at the top is the one that I did first. I found...
Monthly Archive: April 2017
STRUCTURE AND TRANSPARENCY
Structure is a word that you see in regard to drawing. “As Klee’s art finds in nature its inspiration for abstraction, at the core of his sketchbook is the idea that the student can...
FRANCIS BACON
Most modern artists were skeptical of realism, of Cartesian accuracy, of Alberti defined space Francis Bacon was one of these skeptics. “Bacon was convinced he has seen through “the lie of realism” – even...
PROCESS AS DRAWING
Drawing is the recording of the intimate gestures of a body. All drawing correlates our movements with our mental clarity. As such drawing provides the one path to spiritual truth about life. It takes...
WAR OVER WORDS
Kory Stamper wrote an interesting piece in The New York Times titled “America’s Uncivil War Over Words.” “Americans can’t agree on much these days. They’ve obviously fallout over politics. They can’t even agree on...
OTRA FIGURACION
Evoke without mimetic representation. Transcend the abstract / figuration binary. Employ expression and reject decoration. These three principals summarize the Otra Figuración movement (or another figuration). This was a group of four artists, operating...
BRICE MARDEN
There is transparency to some of the works of Brice Marden. Marden is an artist who utilized calligraphy for their inspiration. In Marden’s Cold Mountain series of paintings, there is a distinct sense of...
THE DESIGN SKETCHBOOK
At the site titled The Design Sketchbook, the author has provided Tip 172. And it it titled “How to draw 3D volumes. It’s all about seeing things in transparency.” The Design Sketchbook looks like...
THE TRAJECTORY OF ART
The entire trajectory of modernism, it turns out, is nothing more than revealing what cannot be seen. “One of the greatest innovations in twentieth-century drawings involves the degree to which they make visible things...
THE WHOLE SPACE
Can you think about space without thinking about form? That is to ask, can space be defined without enclosure and boundaries? Barnett Newman, an important abstract expressionist artist working in the mid 50’s, gave...
RAPHAEL’S PANTHEON
Raphael, the great Renaissance artist, made a famous drawing of the Pantheon. The drawing is most notable for it’s inaccuracy. “…when Raphael drew the interior of the Pantheon, he didn’t produce “the reality one...
PAPER TRANSPARENCY
What if you draw on transparent medium? Decades ago, I used to make drawings on plexiglass. The drawing at the top of this page is an example. I used a Rapidograph ink pen, and...
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