Dear Ana
Thanks for your reply - I would be very interested in seeing you PhD -
sounds very interesting.
Yours
Xavier
On Thursday, September 15, 2005, at 10:48 AM, Ana Leonor Rodrigues
wrote:
> Hello
>
> On the discussion of Jac Saorsa an Xavier Pick, I would venture that
> they
> are both right in the way that drawing is, in itself an investigation
> of
> visual reality, both sensible, creative, and non linear (artistic) and
> ordered, systematic, clear (whatever adjectives to describe a
> systematic
> approach).
> It also conveys a communication (bypassing verbalization) that goes
> from the
> intensity of incision of the line through several levels and also,
> even, to
> the intention of representation (which is not the only aim of drawing
> but an
> interesting one when one thinks about why do we need to represent).
>
> Myself I’m in this in-between situation it seems you both are
> yourselves,
> being an artist and interested in the process of drawing (the
> exploration of
> the limits of drawing – the line, the support, the indirect register,
> etc.)
> as an artistic expression, but also made a PhD in visual
> communication/drawing and I’m extremely interested and challenged by
> the
> whys of drawing, beginning with why do we draw or the interesting
> statement
> of Wittgenstein, “wouldn’t we consider a case of lunacy the man who
> recognising in a drawing the portrait of N.N. would scream “Look, it’s
> Mr.
> N. N.” .
>
> Well, we could, maybe, go on discussing these topics. Between the –
> drawing
> of drawing, and thinking about drawing.
>
> Yours
> Ana Leonor
>
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> Ana Leonor M. Madeira Rodrigues
> Faculdade de Arquitectura - Universidade Técnica de Lisboa
> home: Av. Gago Coutinho, 25- 2º Esq.
> 1000-015 Lisboa
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>
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