NEO-CONCRETE
Architecture or drawing can be understood only thru the filter of a viewer’s subjectivity. This is a core belief of a Brazilian group of artists working in the late 1950s. They called themselves Grupo...
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SPACE NOT SPACE
Space is a word that we all use when talking about art, or composition, or layout, etc. We toss it around as if we know what we are talking about. But the word space...
EXACT OBSERVATIONS
Ellsworth Kelly on his plant drawings: “They are exact observations…Nothing is changed or added: no shading, no surface marking. They are not an approximation of the thing seen nor are they a personal expression...
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,...
FORM COMBINE 2
Here is another Form Combine. This is the result of the combination, or overlay, of two Henry Moore drawing projection. The drawing at the top is the one that I did first. I found...
STRUCTURE AND TRANSPARENCY
Structure is a word that you see in regard to drawing. “As Klee’s art finds in nature its inspiration for abstraction, at the core of his sketchbook is the idea that the student can...
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...
PROCESS AS DRAWING
Drawing is the recording of the intimate gestures of a body. All drawing correlates our movements with our mental clarity. As such drawing provides the one path to spiritual truth about life. It takes...
OTRA FIGURACION
Evoke without mimetic representation. Transcend the abstract / figuration binary. Employ expression and reject decoration. These three principals summarize the Otra Figuración movement (or another figuration). This was a group of four artists, operating...
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...
THE DESIGN SKETCHBOOK
At the site titled The Design Sketchbook, the author has provided Tip 172. And it it titled “How to draw 3D volumes. It’s all about seeing things in transparency.” The Design Sketchbook looks like...
THE TRAJECTORY OF ART
The entire trajectory of modernism, it turns out, is nothing more than revealing what cannot be seen. “One of the greatest innovations in twentieth-century drawings involves the degree to which they make visible things...
THE WHOLE SPACE
Can you think about space without thinking about form? That is to ask, can space be defined without enclosure and boundaries? Barnett Newman, an important abstract expressionist artist working in the mid 50’s, gave...
RAPHAEL’S PANTHEON
Raphael, the great Renaissance artist, made a famous drawing of the Pantheon. The drawing is most notable for it’s inaccuracy. “…when Raphael drew the interior of the Pantheon, he didn’t produce “the reality one...
PAPER TRANSPARENCY
What if you draw on transparent medium? Decades ago, I used to make drawings on plexiglass. The drawing at the top of this page is an example. I used a Rapidograph ink pen, and...
DRAWING NOT DRAWING
There are four requirements for a drawing, an analogue drawing. Pencil. Paper. Hand. Brain. If any of these items are missing, it is not a drawing. If to make your image, you input digitally,...
ANALOGUE DRAWING
So what do we mean by analogue drawing? These pages use this term frequently. What are the minimum requirements of analogue drawing? Physicality. Physical gesture. Bodily act. Drawing must provide and maintain a direct,...
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...
INFORMED OR INVENTIVE
Your Transparent Drawing is either informed or inventive. INFORMED Informed drawing documents what you know. For example, a few pages ago, we addressed the SURVEY DRAWING. A survey drawing is informed drawing: you use...
DRAW WHAT YOU KNOW
Peter Eisenman: “…to allow the subject to have a vision of space that can no longer be put together in the normalizing, classicizing or traditional construct of vision.” “A possible first step in conceptualizing...
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