Sylvia, carry on... I am enjoying and learning from reading your
thoughts... thanks
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On 29 Nov 2007, at 10:28, Sylvia CORNET wrote:
> Then
>
> another idea is also to " look " at the way ART is created not only
> by the Artists but also build by all the people who surround the
> practice and commission this....
>
> i am afraid to bother the community thus, if you like me to carry on a
> bit about this topic, with examples related, for instance to Italian
> Art, let me know....
>
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> De : Sylvia CORNET <[log in to unmask]>
> Date : 29 novembre 2007 11:00:43 HNEC
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> Objet : Réexp : Creativity and Drawing from Observation
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> BABIES, KIDS, AND ANY TRIBES WITH ANCIENT " WAYS OF EXPRESSING "
> SUCH AS HANDS, TONGUES, FOOT STEP PRINTS.... MAY DO ART
>
> BUT AS FAR AS CIVILISATIONS ARE ON, several ways to " perform " ART
> are now on.
>
> 2 examples from french Art History
>
> DALI
> LEDA AND THE CYGN
>
> Leda holds hands separate as to seize something invisible.....
>
> at this period of time, the universal way to measure the distance of
> one METER has been changed from
> a brass - rod ( barre de " laiton " french name for this metal )
> to a wavelenght
>
> as she is near the cygnus for " Zeus " ( coming as say ancient
> historian from Osiris and also Hebrew Holy God)
> God the " measure of all " through light....
>
> this is the meaning of this painting......
>
> Leda - Gala was Salvador Dali' s unique Love and his measure for
> all.....
>
>
>
>
> MARCEL DUCHAMP 's bicycle ' wheel
>
> in France, anciently angles were measured throuhg several types of unit
> degres, radians and a forgotten one : GONS
>
> then start a " spiritual game "
> GONS sounds like GONDS that means in french the metal pieces that
> allow doors to turn and open or close.
>
> at the same time the rods in the wheel look like the rays and
> sunbeams....
>
> so this bicycle wheel was a METAPHOR for a DOOR as ; in ancient
> hieroglyphs, SUN happen to be one too.....
>
>
> THIS PREOCCUPATION OF MEASURE was the first step to the first LAND ART
> devoted to scales and measures
>
>
>
> I could provide thousands of such parallels between Arts and
> Sciences..... :-))
>
>
>
> Début du message réexpédié :
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> De : Sylvia CORNET <[log in to unmask]>
> Date : 29 novembre 2007 07:00:10 HNEC
> À : The UK drawing research network mailing list
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> Objet : Rép : Creativity and Drawing from Observation
>
>
> Le 28 nov. 07 à 22:56, Shakil Rahim a écrit :
>
> The world becomes available to us through our senses, and by using our
> empirical knowledge, we are able to comprehend our relative position
> in
> relation to the objects we produce or we make use of. Drawing, as a
> means
> of observation, in this system of acquiring operative knowledge, plays
> an
> important role in transforming the world and in validating all
> projectual
> decisions made.
> Artists commonly think of their problems through lines and strokes,
> whether to define a problem, or to solve it. They normally carry
> around
> sketchbooks where they register and question reality. This is one of
> the
> methods used to obtain knowledge. We sometimes get astonished with
> drawings we made of things we never thought to have observed. We draw
> what
> we see without even knowing.
>
> In what way does a correct observation, using drawing as a means of
> acquiring knowledge, allows me to be more creative in my projects?
>
>
>
> Humbly, it seems to me the creativity depends on :
>
> - methods to enhance the brain' s funtionning.
> Those methods comes from other disciplines for instance rhetorics ( in
> french les figures de style ; one is to instance to tell " a prof.
> dress"
> to show a lawyer ....but there are hundreds of such figures that you
> utilise in drawing) Les " cadavres exquis that Marcelo suggested is
> one of those.... And you also have the" rhetorics of dreams " the
> surrealists used much...... ( but also hieronymus Bosch ; Albrecht
> Durer or Arcimboldo )
>
> - the richness of cultural and multidisciplinary background or culture
> you have. This depends also from the " images " you saw in the first
> childhood.... Nature is the greatest teacher....
>
> _ the various links you brain may operate ( as you are very
> concentrated ) alternatively or simultaneously to set up an " dense "
> image...
> this may come from your own personnality and also the childhood.....
>
> But whatever your research as a voluntee ; be the simplest is
> generally the best....As writers say " all is say in one word ".....
> just-draw...
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