PICASSO SCULPTURE KNOWLEDGE
Sculptures in museums can be somewhat difficult to knowledge. Especially if the sculpture is hanging on a wall. We analyze Picasso’s Violin 1915. This piece by Picasso, titled Violin 1915, can be interpreted many...
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DRAWING FROM DRAWING – 2
Back in 2016, we introduced the concept of Drawing from Drawing. I find it difficult to believe that it has been two years without another DFD page. So here is another. This drawing sequence...
ANTI-ILLUSIONIST TESSELLATION
Picasso painted from photographs. His use of photographs was: “…a productive to-and-fro between a photo that reduces real volumes to their flat coordinates and a pictorial reinterpretation of that photographic record into anti-illusionist tessellation.” ...
YOU’VE GOT TO START SOMEWHERE
Picasso said, that when drawing, “You have to start somewhere. You can always erase reality later on.” That is a powerful thought, given that it applies to our continued search for the means and...
MODERNIST FORM GIVERS
A couple of pages ago, we established that the basic goal of modernism is to reveal the unseen. We know that the 20th C modernists rejected the mimetic representational renaissance picture plane construct. Crucially,...
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...
DRAWING FROM DRAWING
I look at a lot of art when I am making my drawings. Artists that I have found inspirational are Amy Sillman, Richard Serra, Frank Stella, and Picasso, to name a few. I thought...
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