Guest Author – Jim Barnes (James David Barnes) — 11th April 20201 James Barnes is a practicing architect living in Dallas, TX. He has written extensively on representation, how we see, the perspective, etc....
Jay Appleton wrote, in 1975, an absolutely great meditation about how we interpret a visual landscape. He centers his thesis on what he terms Prospect-Refuge theory. -Prospect is the ability to see without being...
I keep coming back to Duchamp. Even as my reading and research continues to widen, Duchamp is the oracle. For example, I was re-skimming Tomkin’s absolutely excellent biography on Duchamp. I opened the book...
Spray paint transparency. This is the new Transparent Drawing Assembly that I have begun to draw with. Your first thought might be, how can spray paint that comes from an aerosol can produce transparent...
I don’t want you to just read the book. I want you to just do it. My sincere appreciation and thanks to those of you who have a copy of Transparent Drawing thus far....
We made it over the finish line. Hurray! Celebrate! Wonder of Wonders! Transparent Drawing is now shipping in the US! A lifelong friend of mine first ordered the book on Amazon 23 March 2020....
If it is true that there is no bad drawing, then what about beauty? Authenticity is the new Beauty. Authenticity is the sui generis of the visual idea. We’re not talking about the authenticity...
I’m sorry, but I need to jump in here with a Transparent Drawing book delivery update. This is prompted by a reader who just wrote to me saying that they canceled their order with...
A diagram is a drawing that explains how something works. The antonym of diagram is representational. Diagram and Representation. With these two words, we arrive at the heart of the problem. I find it...
When you start out on a project like Transparent Drawing, you have no idea how it will be categorized. Amazon algorithms put it in good company. I had hoped that Transparent Drawing would be...
Baxandall offers a near mind blowing set of quotes and statements. They describe the Vision of the Blessed. A quote by Maffei, written in 1504, starts things off: “Vision will be so keen that...
Written in 1907, Hildebrand’s The Problem of Form, offers a theory of the perception of art. With his Architectonic Method, he states that structure is the true problem of art. It is not imitation,...
This is a time of profound cultural change. We are coming to grips with our endemic societal repressive and exclusionary practices. Race is one. Art is another. Decolonize your mind. Our adulation of the...
That is such a great phrase, the book has sailed. This is what my publisher, who is British, wrote to me. The update is that it sailed, or was put on the ship bound...
Drawing in Marfa is a humbling experience. The effect of experiencing everything Judd is nearly overwhelming. The unremitting near nothingness of Judd’s work has the effect of cleaning out your mind. And then you...
Don’t be shy to mix spacetimes. Representational Spacetime has such a strong hold on us that you almost have to force yourself to draw in different holistic projections. All you have to do is...
Ruskin’s The Elements of Drawing has been in the cannon for decades. I only became aware of it a couple of months ago. As expected, the book’s orientation supports Representational Spacetime: the entire point...
When the thought crossed my mind: use two Prout Lithographs as Source Images, I was all in. By now it should be clear what is going on with the drawing:–Form Combine / Lines Without...
Let’s design a new barn with Transparent Drawing tools. I thought it would be fun to start with barn forms, and then see how they might help format an entirely new barn. The Drawing...
Villa Savoye has been a favorite in these pages. We now go farther afield with these Mathematical Villa Savoys. In essence, we take visualized mathematical systems, apply the rules to the building, and see...
In one month from today, the book, Transparent Drawing, will be released. That is according to my publisher’s listing on CoreSource, a US distribution platform. So how do I think it will stack up?...
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