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...
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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...
FRANCIS BACON 2
Francis Bacon: “Tell me, who today has been able to record anything that comes across to us as a fact without causing deep injury to the image?” Sebastian Smee, on page 54 of The...
STONE OBSESSION
I suddenly became obsessed with stones. Standing stones, to be exact. In the Volubilis site in Morocco. As I was walking thru the ruins, I suddenly became fascinated with large stones that were still...
DESIGN PROVENANCE
Where does the true value of a design lie? What constitutes the cultural value of a design? It is the Design Provenance. Provenance. That’s the best word I can come up with that quantifies...
THE DRAWING FUNCTION
A few pages ago, we spoke about drawing in and drawing out. And we made the analogy of drawing to breathing. The word that we typically apply to breathing is function. We talk about...
REPRESENTATIONAL TRANSPARENCY
Once in a great while, I take a photo that I really, really like. The photo at left is in this category. This was taken while in what was called the Prison de Kara,...
SHOOT DOWN
Always take advantage of the opportunity to take photos looking down. When traveling, you are given many opportunities to go up into things. This might be the camponeili of a cathedral. You might be...
LEON FERRARI
Let’s start the week off with this consideration of this great quote from Leon Ferrari: “I draw silent handwritten words, which tell things, with lines that recall voices. And I write drawings that recite...
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