Tagged: BRAIN AND HAND

May 10, 2017

ACT OF DRAWING

This is an excellent and concise meditation on the act of drawing: “Drawing is…at its most basic the product of no more than a pen or pencil taken to a sheet of paper. Any...

“Aesthetic experience, being a free activity, must be as unhampered as possible by the materially given, that is, as close as possible to unmediated intuition.” Sonesson.

“For Kandinsky, abstraction did not mean reducing a realistic scene down to its essential formal elements. Rather, it means an inductive process of building a scene by combining the ‘graphic elements’ – the fundamental building blocks of painting, such as points, lines, planes, color, texture,, and so forth – in a certain way.” Zettl.

“I’m likewise calling for a renewed visual culture of the object— for a new focus on visual form as a site of rich rhetorical material.” Atzmon,

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ACT OF DRAWING

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