I FANTASIZE
I’ve been doing this for about three years now. Three years seems like nothing. Like they say, it is never work when you enjoy what you do. And it never feels like work to...
Tagged: TRANSPARENT DRAWING
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...
WHO WOULD HAVE LIKED TRANSPARENT DRAWING?
Corb, for one. He of course considered himself a painter first. And his daily painting was a basic exercise in composition, completion, balance, form, etc. Admittedly his paintings were opaque. Yet I think he...
REPRESENTATIONAL TRUTH
“This is the entire history of Western painting, right here. The struggle to represent things accurately. And then, when we develop a language for rigorously rendering 3D shapes in two-dimensional space, what do we...
STOP, SNAP AND ROLL
A bicycle is the best way to see a countryside. I came to this realization during our recent bicycle tour thru Croatia. On a bike, it is wonderfully easy to stop, snap a photo...
NOT NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
When I was a kid, our family used to take National Geographic magazine. I will always remember being absolutely stunned by the photographs. Then, when I was in high school, my parents bought me...
JAMAICA DINING ROOM
I did this sketch about 2.5 years ago. It is of a dining room in Jamaica. It is one of the few transparent sketches that I did in situ. I started the sketch during...
FOCUSED PHOTOGRAPHY
Matera, Italy is mind blowing. I think I would like to offer a course which might be titled Form Appreciation. The course would be of benefit to both practicing architects as well as architecture...
DRAW NOTHING
How do you draw nothing? That question occurred to me while I was reading the excellent article on Michael Heizer, “A Monument to Outlast Humanity” by Dana Goodyear in the 29 August 16 New...
DREAMS ARE FACTS
Dreams are facts. In analytic psychology, dreams are the elements of what is going on in a person’s unconscious. “Soon I realized that it was right to take the dreams in this way as...
DRAWING MACHINES
Since the beginning, machines have been developed with the goal of reducing subjective human interpretation. This thought has been with us since the 17th century, and has basically been unchanged into today. And of...
SCIENTIFIC MODERNISM
This is how scientific discovery happens. Scientific discovery happens when it is observed that nature violates an accepted scientific paradigm. That is to say, when the expectations of a paradigm no longer match nature,...
TRANSPARENT TIME
Time is what roots us in our humanity. Architecture controls and modulates the sequence of experience. To have a sequence, time must elapse. Humans have a fundamental need to understand their place in time. ...
PUZZLES AND PROBLEMS
Science is devoted to puzzle solving, not problem solving. We are conditioned to think of science as solving enormously complex problems. We romanticize about Salk or Madame Curie heroically making life better for all...
TANGLED UP IN ART
I saw my Transparent Drawings on a gallery wall. There they were, nicely framed and lit. And all around them were the artworks of artists. I am very happy to have my drawings on...
THE VISUALIZATION OF SCIENCE
Of the most interesting tangents of these pages is the visualization that is at the core of science. When you start a project like Transparent Drawing, you don’t know all of the tangents that...
TRANSPARENT THINKER
Laslo Maholy-Nagy was a transparent thinker. This revelation came thru loud and clear at the current Guggenheim show, Moholy-Nagy: Future Present, in NYC. When you think of Maholy-Nagy, you generally think of Constructivist work. ...
THE SHELLS WE LIVE IN
We have adopted the word enclosure to describe the objects that we design and draw. Let’s substitute shell for enclosure and see if we derive any further understanding. That is to say, imagine any...
DOES THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD EXIST?
Is there a scientific method? This is the question that James Blachowicz asks in their New York Times article. In these pages, we have been questioning the scientific method. For background, see SCIENTIFIC METHOD...
GRAPHITE AND DIAMOND
Graphite and diamond are both forms of pure carbon. The graphite that we use in our pencils and the diamond that we wear on our fingers is the same stuff. It is just that...
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...
TRANSCEND CUBISM
I had never heard of Stuart Davis. That is, until Schjaldahl’s 20 June New Yorker article made the introduction. Davis was an early modernist painter who completely believed in his artistic mission. He also...
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