Dear Maulfrey,
Being an artist myself that uses drawing very often as an artistic
expression, I also teach art drawing at architecture faculty in Lisbon and
investigate on the subject.
I would not bother of defining drawing as art or not.
It is a communicating system that also uses artistic creativity and
imagination/sensibility, but themselves being a tool of this process of
communication.
I would say that one of the problems is that our way of thinking tends to
separate thinks (of course to analyse we have to separate, but it is
important to let the “body” that is being analysed as a whole), one is art
the other one is not art, and so on.
In the case of drawing one has everything inside, a precise instrument for
analysing the visual world, a clear and unmistakable communication process
outside verbalisation and an artistic graphic expression.
The problem is that we seldom accept that a scientific drawing has artistic
qualities (remember how medical drawings of mouths influenced drawings and
paintings of Bacon), or that an art drawing may contain scientific
knowledge.
Drawing being a tool that at the same time is expression, being a process
that at the same time becomes an art object is a hybrid thing that loses
with its crystallising in a definition.
Your point b) is crucial of the attitude of society towards creativity and
learning.
I agree with what seems implicit in the statement, that drawing should be a
discipline included in the curricula of all studies, beginning with the free
marks of children learning and “tasting” and “testing” the world, to all the
other later developments that would benefit immensely from the methodology
of drawing (that, again, never cesses to have artistic relations, in the
process of making it as well as in the process of fruition).
I hope my English is not too foreign.
Yours
Ana Leonor
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Ana Leonor M. Madeira Rodrigues
Faculdade de Arquitectura - Universidade Técnica de Lisboa
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