Hi Eduardo,
Isn't the origin of the word 'draw' from the physically-based idea meaning
'to pull something toward one' rather that the activity of sketching?Most
meanings of the word going back to the Old English and Old Norse mean to
'pull something towards you' ( as in draw a sled or draw water) rather than
'create a picture' . The application of the term 'draw' to sketching
appears to be a rather later possibly colloquial use outside their original
meanings?.
This suggests, the idea of 'pulling something' towards a solution (as in
'design') may also be independent of the idea of sketching and that the
terms 'design' and 'drawing' (in the sketching sense) are a later
colloquial application of those terms?
I've no formal confirmation of it but apparently a similar difference and
sequence of changes of meaning is found in Persian/Farsi and Arabic from
around 1000 AD.
Perhaps Ken has more details?
Cheers,
Terry
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To: Dr Terence Love
Subject: Re: the first Design maxim
The first design maxim (using the word design) was (maybe) by Sir Henry
Wotton in the early 1600´s:
/Therefore first (to beginne with Picture) we are to observe whether it bee
well *drawne*, (or as more elegant artisans tearme it) well *Design'd; *Then
whether be well Coloured, which bee the two general Heads; and each one of
the hath two principall Requisites; for in well *Designing*, there must bee
Truth and Grace, in well Colouring, Force, and Affection; All other praises,
are but consequences of these.
Remenber friends well drawne and..."Truth and Grace"
Eduardo/
Wotton, Henry 1623, /The Elements of Architecture/, facsimile edition,
Farnborough, Hants. :Gregg International Publishers, 1969
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Eduardo Côrte-Real
Prof. Doctor
IADE, Lisboa
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