> Hi Caroline
> In my opinion, drawing is a multifaceted, multi disciplinary and
> totally inclusive mental and/or physical activity. Whether
> thought , urge or activity, curiosity or experimentation the
> definition of drawing is as elusive as ever. Drawing could be
> described as an urge to hold, keep, contain, remember; a wish to
> discover, describe, analyse, note down or explain; the ability to
> classify, separate, choose, disregard, combine, connect ,
> interpret , create order out of chaos.
>
> Pliny the Elder wrote about the beginning of portrait drawing at
> the moment when a young Greek girl in ancient Corinth drew the
> outline around the cast shadow of her boyfriend's head. Has
> drawing to do with memory, loss or love?
>
> Ruskin thought that drawing (referring to the Renaissance masters)
> was a form of notation of thought or of observation while Herbert
> Read saw the same drawings as a form of short-hand and made the
> observation that "we do not regard shorthand as a useful
> preparation for the art of writing".
>
> Blake regarded drawing as a tool of the imagination. He argued
> that "nature has no outlines but imagination has".
>
> Michael Kenny described drawing as a "conceptual thing" which could
> be carried out in any medium. He regarded drawing as a "process of
> ordering" (of thought or of observation) concerned with selection
> and decision of what is significant and what can be dispensed
> with. He argued that every kind of art activity is a form of drawing.
>
> For Alberto Giacommetti drawing was "a process of discovery".
>
> Michael Craig-Martin described the characteristics of drawing as
> timeless including "spontaneity, creative speculation,
> experimentation, immediacy, personal vision, technical diversity,
> modesty of means, rawness, fragmentation, discontinuity,
> unfinishness and open-endness.
>
> Drawing's plurality and diversity mean that criteria for what makes
> a drawing good or bad are equally elusive.
> How do we define a good drawing?
>
> Eva
On 10 Nov 2005, at 22:37, R. Whelan wrote:
> Hello Caroline,
> Try readingCreative Drawing by Howard J. Smagula. Laurence, king
> publishing.
> good introduction to drawing.
> Richard Whelan
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Caroline Calascione" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 10:05 PM
> Subject: a definition of drawing
>
>
>> Hello
>>
>> I am currently trying to make a definition of drawing.
>> Are there any texts that you know of that you could recommend me
>> to read?
>> best wishes
>> Caroline
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