HEROIC LINES
An image found on the web. A few heroic lines on the paper. A quick wash or two. A resolved, unique and authentic form. That really is at the heart of Transparent Drawing. A...
Monthly Archive: November 2017
THE SECRET PHOTOGRAPHER
That should never be part of the title of a book about Le Corbusier. But nevertheless, there it is. The full title, Le Corbusier, The Secret Photographer, was published in 2013. In 2012 at...
THE ORGANISM AND THE OBJECT
The basis of all architecture is drawing. “Drawing is a form of probing. And the first generic impulse to draw derives from the human need to search, to plot points, to place things and...
ONE LINE ONE WASH
I think I have achieved enlightenment. My drawing was done with one wash, and one line. The pencil went once to the paper and drew the line. The brush went once to the paper...
DRAW FOR TRUTH
We draw what is right, not what seems right. We draw for truth. Panofsky tells us that there were three components of subjectivity which were codified in the Renaissance representational mindset: subjective emotions, foreshortening,...
KNOWLEDGE AND DATA
Tom Gruber is head of advanced development for Siri at Apple. He has been at the vanguard of AI (Artificial Intelligence) from the very first. And he has specifically been interested in speech recognition...
REPRESENTATION AND WESTERN CONQUEST
The perspective, as it blossomed forth in the Renaissance, worked with newfound rational thinking. Suddenly the world could be explained with the idealized constructs of math, science, logic and the linear perspective. With...
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