Taking freedom with the essence of subject(whatever it may be),
Changing it's form, color, sound etc., to one's pleasure, and yet
leaving it's essence intact, but with a new design.
mando
On Sep 23, 2009, at 9:22 PM, William Conger wrote:
Distortion from what? All these pronouncements and no reasoning.
wc
________________________________
From: armando baeza <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: armando baeza <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 7:18:25 PM
Subject: Re: Only an academic figure drawing can be wrong
One may also say, that extreame distortion is not as important as
good design.
mando
On Sep 23, 2009, at 9:53 AM, Boris Shoshensky wrote:
Distortion based on skill is a good way to go.
For me 'wrong' is when the function of a creative harmony is absent.
Creative distortion is not wrong. 'David' is anatomically incorrect.
But give me that distortion all the time. The problem part of
academic drawing
is lack of expression, the good part is technical skill.
Distortion based on
skill is a good way to go.
Why is this an interesting issue? For you as an artist it is not.
As a
teacher it is important, I think.
Boris Shoshensky
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Only an academic figure drawing can be wrong
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:18:03 -0700 (PDT)
What is any discipline of life drawing? There's something wrong
about the
noses in Greek Classical Art, so how is that the Greek Profile
became so
commonplace in academic art? Incidentally, there's something
wrong about
almost all of Classical Greek art with respect to anatomic
accuracy. The Greek
artists relied on tradition, purpose, and external observation
and not on the
internal facts of anatomy or strict objectivity. They made highly
distorted
figures for both practical and expressive purposes.
The reason people can tell if the nose is wrong, but probably not
be able to
tell if the arm or toes are wrong has to do with the relatively
large area of
the human brain devoted to face recognition.
If you say, "Depict the human body according to these
rules" (whatever rules
you list), then when the result does not conform to those rules,
the result
is wrong. Academic life drawing instruction often followed such
rules -- both
pertaining to measurement and style and to media techniques. Why
is this an
interesting issue?
wc
________________________________
From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]; [email protected]
Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 11:56:42 AM
Subject: Re: Only an academic figure drawing can be wrong
In a message dated 9/21/09 10:32:14 AM, [email protected]
writes:
By "academic", I'm not referring to a specific academy or canon,
but to
any
discipline of life drawing. So a drawing is not "wrong" because it
violates
any specific academic criteria, and I wasn't limiting such
judgment to
those
who are even familiar with much artwork or the concept of "art"
at all.
"There's something wrong about the nose" is a comment that might
come from
anybody able to see and speak.
I thought you said you were emulating Pontormo and Bronzino both
of whom
had some very beautiful criteria.
KAte Sullivan
____________________________________________________________
Best Weight Loss Program - Click Here!
http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2241/fc/
BLSrjpYSwrByyarmi3yODW8xrBME1e
TBOY0O4E3F9GLYj9NY99C1DK2Xe1K/
