OPPENHEIMER
Have you ever stopped to think what spatial and form processing facilities you are born with? “Typology is a study of those relationships that do not have to do with measure and size, but...
TRANSPARENT DRAWING
DRAW LIKE A BYZANTINE
A new phrase, Draw Like a Byzantine, has crept into these pages without any warning. Let’s try to formalize the meaning of this phrase so as to bring it into our lexicon. To Draw...
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...
REAL WORLD TRANSPARENT DRAWING
I thought it would be fun to show a couple of real world Transparent Drawings. As long time readers know, I use Transparent Drawing on a daily basis in my office. I think transparently...
VANISHING POINT, A SHORT HISTORY
A few pages ago, we made clear that for the Byzantines, in the Middle Ages, the vanishing point was within the viewer. See The Vanishing Point Is Within You. If we look at art...
ORDINARY BUILDING – MOROCCO
It is the light. The constantly changing light. And the blueness of the sky. In Morocco, I found myself spending a lot of time looking directly up. And one reason was the courtyards. Every...
THE VANISHING POINT IS WITHIN YOU
In the Renaissance, the vanishing point was placed on the surface of the painting, or inside the painting, if you will. The space of the painting then continued outward so as to include the...
IMPROVISATION
If you look at a painting in a certain way, you can begin to see the space. At first blush, a look at this DeKooning painting, titled Gansevoort Street, you might think that it...
GOD’S VIEW
Does God see transparently? “Perspective makes the single eye the center of the visible world. Everything converges on to the eye as to the vanishing point of infinity. The visible world is arranged for...
THE BANALITY AND THE ECSTASY
It never occurred to me that I would draw it later. Why draw banality? During our Ottawa trip, (previous page about Ottawa here), we went to the Diefenbunker. The Diefenbunker is a relic of...
FORM GENERATION – AN EXAMPLE
Modernist paintings can be great form generators. Two months ago, we questioned why the iconic modernist painters were content to manipulate two dimensional forms on a two dimensional picture plane. See the page Modernist...
EVILS OF SUPERFICIALITY
Oppenheimer: “This is a world in which each of us, knowing his limitations, knowing the evils of superficiality, will have to cling to what is close to him, to what he knows, to what...
WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT
Ottawa is a fun city. Actually, we love all Canadian cities. Come to think of it, we really like Canada. As in it would be a reasonable place to live. But I digress. We...
CAN’T IT BE ANYTHING BUT ART?
Nice drawing. You must be an artist. In the local paper, there was an article about a young person who does drawings of buildings in our Village. He does not do representational drawings, but...
MANUAL CRAFT
The analogue drawing, is a piece of manual craft. “…the drawing arts become manifest through manual craft – that they inherently posses a basis in artisanship- even when they allow us to see nonesistent...
QUOTIENT SUMMARY
This page provides a summary of the quotients that have been established so far in these pages. PROVENANCE QUOTIENT – This value quantifies the origins of our designs. The more original the provenance, the...
CHILD’S VIEW
As humans, we first understand the world without words. “Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.” There is nothing like a John Berger quote to get the blood...
VOLUBILIS VISITOR’S CENTER
The visitor’s center at Volubilis, Moroco, is very good. It is always interesting to be presented with a visitor’s center when traveling. Of course, visitor’s centers are built at popular tourist destinations. These centers...
100% HUMAN
At Transparent Drawing, the only drawing that has value is one that is produced analogue. If the graphic is not 100% analogue, you can’t call it a drawing. See ANALOGUE DRAWING. And the...
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