Anything extreme is not working. Distortion or rules. Boris Shoshensky ---------- Original Message ---------- From: armando baeza <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: armando baeza <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Only an academic figure drawing can be wrong Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:18:25 -0700
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/
