PROFANE REPRESENTATION
Let’s say you are an artist in the Middle Ages. In that guise, you did not want your drawings or paintings to look representational. Instead, you deliberately constructed your images in a non linear...
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TRANSPARENT CUBISM
Historians have divided Cubism into two segments. Analytic and Synthetic. Analytic Cubism happened at the beginning of the movement, including the years 1908-1912. The concepts of Analytic Cubism are central to Transparent Drawing. “It...
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...
I’M ON A PLANE
What shapes a plane? What is a plane? In our Transparent Drawings, we draw planes all the time. You might say that to draw an enclosed and resolved form, all we are drawing is...
ALL ACROSS THE UNIVERSE
Reading in Bachelard, it was gratifying to hear him contemplate memory, space and time. He posits the theory that memory is free of time. That is to say, our memories are devoid of a...
CULTURAL COPYING
The cultural provenance of your ideas and solutions is what will establish what is valued, and what is not. How you manage, parse and organize the Googlized information flood is a significant part of...
YOU HAVE TO START SOMEWHERE
I like to look at the basic geometries of Le Corbusier’s paintings for inspiration for my drawings. The image above was loosely structured around this painting, titled Icone 3, by Corb. When you find...
FORM GENERATION
As designers, one of the basic points is to derive a form that is unique to your problem and somewhat different that what has come before. The derivation of a new form is in...
BYZANTINE MOSAIC
This photograph was taken from a mosaic on the ceiling of the Chora Church in Istanbul. As we have seen, the medieval artist did not have a cohesive and geometrically correct framework for their...
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