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October 5, 2016

WHO WOULD HAVE LIKED TRANSPARENT DRAWING?

Corb, for one. He of course considered himself a painter first. And his daily painting was a basic exercise in composition, completion, balance, form, etc. Admittedly his paintings were opaque. Yet I think he...

EXAMPLES / TRAVEL

February 24, 2015

THE CHAPEL OF ST. IGNATIOUS

We visited Vancouver and Seattle last week. We absolutely love to hit a city and then immediately start exploring it. And many times we don’t have a specific itinerary of places to visit and...

“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.

Tagged: HOLL

WHO WOULD HAVE LIKED TRANSPARENT DRAWING?

THE CHAPEL OF ST. IGNATIOUS

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