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August 17, 2017

TRANSPARENT CUBISM

Historians have divided Cubism into two segments. Analytic and Synthetic. Analytic Cubism happened at the beginning of the movement, including the years 1908-1912. The concepts of Analytic Cubism are central to Transparent Drawing. “It...

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August 4, 2017

ELIMINATE THE VANISHING POINT

You want to Draw Like a Byzantine? Eliminate the vanishing point. Have you ever thought about the cultural hegemony of the act of placing the vanishing point on your paper? There you are, drawing...

“Thus (through perspective) every sort of confusion is revealed within us; and this is that weakness of the human mind on which the art of conjuring and of deceiving by light and shadow and other ingenious devices imposes, having an effect upon us like magic” Plato

‘We’ve conflated craft with skill and design with art when, following the German definition of Kraft, it should be about more than just making. It is the poser, the force, the knowledge and the window behind making – the craft behind it. Langlands.

“…the image which relies on ‘knowledge’ only is ‘purely conceptual,’ and the history of art, as we have seen, becomes the history of the expulsion of this intruder.” Gombrich.

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