On Jul 28, 2009, at 11:16 AM, armando baeza wrote:
I think that the higher the degree of recognizable naturalism in art, the less it stimulates the the mind.
I hadn't thought of it quite like that. Perhaps high naturalism produce a reaction of marvel or wonder (impressive technique, virtuoso attention to detail, etc.). For myself, I know that I reallly like good drawing--not just extremely facile or highly skilled, like Ingres, but supple, fluid, direct, definitive, confident. And that includes the seemingly delicate touch of Jules Pascin as much as the vigor of Schiele and Hockney and Mike Angelo, etc. I also really like Donatello's sculptures, partly because they are so clear, it's almost like that are drawn in outline.
Now that I think about it, I really don't warm much to Picasso's pen- and-ink drawings (all those minotaur-artist debaucheries and such), but I do like his drawings from the analytic and synthetic Cubist periods).
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