Category: EXAMPLES
FRANCIS BACON
Most modern artists were skeptical of realism, of Cartesian accuracy, of Alberti defined space Francis Bacon was one of these skeptics. “Bacon was convinced he has seen through “the lie of realism” – even...
WAR OVER WORDS
Kory Stamper wrote an interesting piece in The New York Times titled “America’s Uncivil War Over Words.” “Americans can’t agree on much these days. They’ve obviously fallout over politics. They can’t even agree on...
BRICE MARDEN
There is transparency to some of the works of Brice Marden. Marden is an artist who utilized calligraphy for their inspiration. In Marden’s Cold Mountain series of paintings, there is a distinct sense of...
POST-DIGITAL DRAWING
In Metropolis Magazine, Sam Jacob wrote a piece titled Architecture Enters the Age of Post-Digital Drawing. The concept of the article is that, in the beginning, architects drew. Then the juggernaut of the machine...
THINKING ABOUT LANGUAGE
“The more I think about language, the more it amazes me that people ever understand each other at all.” Kurt Gödel. Wang, Hao. From Mathematics to Philosophy, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1974. p. 95
POETIC IMMORTALS
On a recent excursion thru the Metropolitan Museum, I came upon these ink drawings, shown below, of famous Japanese poets. The drawings were done by Sakai Hoitsu (1761-1828) and are titled The 36 Poetic...
PAINTING DIMENSIONALIZATION
These pages have taken many directions. Yet one that I keep coming back to is using the oil paintings of Le Corbusier and Picasso as generators for my Transparent Drawings. Let’s call this painting...
CUBIST TRANSPARENCY
It still seems amazing to me that the Cubists did not work transparently. we have touched on this concept some time ago, see the link to the page titled NO TRANSPARENT PAINTING. The opacity...
TANGLED UP IN ART
I saw my Transparent Drawings on a gallery wall. There they were, nicely framed and lit. And all around them were the artworks of artists. I am very happy to have my drawings on...
GALLERY EXHIBITION
Real, live, transparent drawings will be on display at The Smithy, an art gallery in Cooperstown. My drawings are part of a larger show with various artists, titled Interior Spaces. As Janet Erway, Executive...
TRANSPARENT THINKER
Laslo Maholy-Nagy was a transparent thinker. This revelation came thru loud and clear at the current Guggenheim show, Moholy-Nagy: Future Present, in NYC. When you think of Maholy-Nagy, you generally think of Constructivist work. ...
ORIGINS OF TRANSPARENT DRAWING
This drawing is 35 years old. It seems that I started drawing transparently way before I started Transparent Drawing. I was looking thru old 35 mm slides the other day, and I came across...
NYIT WORKSHOP – DRAWING 2
This is the second part of the Transparent Drawing workshop held in Professor Frangos’ first year design studio at New York Institute of Technology last week. The first installment can be found on the...
NYIT WORKSHOP – DRAWING 1
Naomi Frangos, Associate Professor of Architecture at New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury Campus, Long Island, heroically invited me to give a Transparent Drawing workshop for her first year architecture design studio. The...
MANDOLIN AND CLARINET
The Transparent Drawing workshop conducted on Monday went super. I will make at least two pages of the drawings that the students did while providing full details of the event. I was hoping to...
ELLSWORTH KELLY PLANT DRAWINGS
I have become enamored with the plant drawings of Ellsworth Kelly. These are simple outline drawings of various plant stalks and leaves. I guess what attracts me is their elemental simplicity. Mr. Kelly’s rigorous...
MESSY DESIGN
The robotics revolution is upon us. Reports and predictions continually express great concern that the machines will take over. While some robotic systems strive for artificial intelligence, others are geared to intelligence augmentation. Robotic...
TRANSPARENT DRAWING AT MOMA!
There is a transparent drawing at MOMA! During our travels last week, we were in MOMA in NYC. While we were there to see the Picasso sculpture show, we waded thru the crowds to...
CALLIGRAPHY AS A GRAPHIC
I have been using the beautiful graphics of Islamic writing as a way of generating forms. I have been using Islamic calligraphy as a graphic to generate ideas. I continue to think of the...
IN SITU TRANSPARENT DRAWING
It finally happened. I made an in situ transparent drawing in a cloister in northern Spain. In these pages I’ve been extolling the virtues, ad nauseam, of drawing from photographs on your phone. I’m...
ROAD NOT TAKEN
At the confluence of the analog and the digital, we need to reference as many analogue instances that we can so as to continue to demonstrate the validity of what we are about. We...
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