UNITY OF OPPOSITES 13-18
This is the third and final installment of our look at Unity Of Opposites as they apply to Transparent Drawing. The first two installments can be found here and here. I hope that you...
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UNITY OF OPPOSITES 7-12
This is the second installment of our look at Unity Of Opposites as they apply to Transparent Drawing. The first installment can be found here. Seven TD: Real Object RS: Faithful Vision Drawings that...
UNITY OF OPPOSITES 1-6
Today, and for the next two Mondays, we will look at a Unity Of Opposites as they apply to Transparent Drawing. Each page will have 6 Opposites, for a total at the end of...
TRANSPARENT LANDSCAPE
Can we learn from a Renaissance landscape painting? The drawing above tries to answer that question. The painting in question is titled The Harvesters and it is by Pieter Brugel the Elder, done in...
REPRESENTATION IS DEAD
Why do we even teach representation as the mode with which to draw to solve problems? Why are we even taught to draw representationally? Why are we culturally ingrained to draw for emotion, rather...
LIFE IS NOT LIKE AN OIL PAINTING
“Life delineates itself on the canvas called time; and time never repeats: once gone, forever gone, and so is an act: once done, it is never undone. Life is a sumiye-painting, which must be...
WHY DO WE DRAW?
Why do we draw? Why we draw is a fundamental theme of these pages. By contrast, these pages are really not about how we draw. That sort of thing has been covered by the...
THE WIREFRAME
Does the drawing above look like a wireframe drawing? Or, do any of the drawings on this site look like wireframes? I don’t think they do. Yet in two recent conversations with friends about...
CHRISTIANITY AND THE LINEAR PERSPECTIVE
Without Christianity, would the linear perspective have been invented / discovered? The interior of the great basilicas were, when you either drew or painted them, automatically in perspective. Did the confluence of Christianity and...
REPRESENTATIONAL SPACETIME
I need this page to clearly state how Representational Spacetime is defined in Transparent Drawing. Representational Spacetime is one of the Four Spacetimes, and I realized that I don’t have a page specifically addressing...
PLATO’S PREDICTION
The linear perspective was invented by the Greeks. Simultaneously, illusionist depiction had it’s first critic, Plato. In a previous page, Plato On Perspective, we took a first look at Plato’s objection to representational drawing....
SPACETIME ANALYSIS 1
A few pages ago, we introduced The Four Spacetimes as a way of understanding how Transparent Drawing fits into the history of Western Culture. So let’s apply The Four Spacetimes to the drawing...
THE GREEK PERSPECTIVE
By all accounts, the Greeks were the first civilization to draw and paint their pictures according to the basic rules of liner perspective. Although we are typically taught that Representational Spacetime started in Florence,...
THE FOUR SPACETIMES
Drawing is a statement of time and space. To draw representationally, for example, there is a tacit acceptance that we will summarize one instant in time with a linear spatial construct. To Draw Like...
BEHIND OPAQUE WALLS
Jung admonishes us to see behind opaque walls. The last chapter of Carl Jung’s book, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, includes this passage: “…for me the “dividing walls” are transparent. That is my peculiarity. Others find...
SET YOURSELF UP FOR FAILURE
In many instances, I never know how my drawing is going to turn out. That’s because I try to incorporate new means and methods whenever I have a new idea. We have talked about...
NEW MEASUREMENT GROUP
Artists have been pushing back against ideological cultural imperatives since forever. An interesting example is three Chinese artists who called themselves the New Measurement Group. In an attempt to push back against cultural ideological...
YEAR IN REVIEW
How do you generate new forms? More to the point, can there be a method which can be used to for novel form and enclosure generation? This question is one of the central points...
CROATIA GARAGE
Many times, an ordinary building can capture your attention. We are traveling this week, so I offer this simple drawing of a simple building. I snapped the photo below from my bicycle. We were...
NATIONAL TURBULENCE AND UTOPIA
As mentioned before, I am reading Erik Reece’s Utopia Drive. If you missed it, here is a link to the page ARTLESS ART, which brings a Shaker sensibility to what we do here at...
WORDLESS ART
“Architecture seems to be confined to drawings and hope. Can this essentially wordless art – that is, this art that lies just beyond the reach of words – negotiate the barriers of its present...
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