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 two drawings that Henry Moore had done. And then I did a basic drawing projection of each drawing. I also used […]
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26Apr
2017
STRUCTURE AND TRANSPARENCY
2017
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 grasp, through the observation of physical phenomena, the hidden structure of things beyond what is immediately apparent.” p. 24. (italics added) […]
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24Apr
2017
FRANCIS BACON
2017
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 the kind of sophisticated urban realism invented by Manet and Degas in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Realism’s pretense […]
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21Apr
2017
PROCESS AS DRAWING
2017
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 time to draw a drawing. Because of our transparency, the way the drawing was formed is revealed. The materiality of the […]
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19Apr
2017
WAR OVER WORDS
2017
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 the facts. Now they’re fighting over words.” 1. These pages have been saying this for months now. These pages advocated the […]
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17Apr
2017
OTRA FIGURACION
2017
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 between 1961 and 1965 in Argentina, who studied the human body in both drawings and paintings. It was started by the […]
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14Apr
2017
BRICE MARDEN
2017
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 transparent form making. And in fact the Cold Mountain series is considered their most notable work. To get a sense of […]
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12Apr
2017
THE DESIGN SKETCHBOOK
2017
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 a very nice resource for folks who are looking for a tutorial on analogue sketching. The author, Chou-Tac, provides pages and […]
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10Apr
2017
THE TRAJECTORY OF ART
2017
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 that cannot be seen – states of mind, ideas and processes.” p.21 This quote is taken from Garrels’ Drawing From the […]
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