If I were a painter,Yes ,But I'm a sculptor
mando
On Dec 8, 2008, at 8:00 AM, Michael Brady wrote:
On Dec 8, 2008, at 10:40 AM, armando baeza wrote:
I go back to the cave paintings 30 and 40 thousand years ago,plus the
pre columbian sculpture from Nayarit for some of my nourishment
for form,
It was a cardinal point often repeated by *all* my life drawing
instructors in art school to draw as often as possible from life
and NOT to rely on photographs except for references to the
position of the model. All the professors (including drawing and
painting, not just life drawing) repeated the point that the photo
is flat, so when the student copies the photo, he or she is copying
a flat image, not a three-dimensional object.
I read a very interesting show review in Arts magazine, way back in
the 80s, about a figural artist. The writer made the point that
drawing from the model consists of many many acts of memory, of
looking at the model, turning to look at the paper or canvas, and
then drawing from memory what the artist saw. The drawing was
comprised of a multitude of these small acts of remembering, and
the resulting drawing or painting showed the development of the
image over time (in contrast, btw, to a photograph, which is
instantaneous and total). This accumulation of discrete acts formed
a more vivid and "living" image than a mechanical transcription.
Drawing from a photograph does away with effect of building the
image over time, not to mention the loss of the third dimension.
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Michael Brady
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