Hi,
I wrote a chapter on this subject if you’re interested, although in my experience drawing has passed through any ‘taboo’ phase and is widely available in art schools.
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> On 5 Jun 2018, at 15:46, Stuart Murphy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> I'd say most artists draw as part of their practice, it just isn't always part of the end product, or in this case part of their degree show work.
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> On Tue, 5/6/18, emma bolland <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Subject: Re: Drawing in Fine Art Departments
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Tuesday, 5 June, 2018, 15:22
>
> I see a great deal
> of good drawing based practice emerging from
> contemporary/fine art courses. Alongside equally valid work
> in the media you mention. I would dispute your view, and
> also remark that drawing does not begin and end with the
> life drawing.
>
> Emma
> Bolland
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> On Tue, 5
> Jun 2018, 15:17 Stephen Farthing, <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> Dear William You ask a good question - which I suspect
> it would take at least a chapter in a book to properly
> answer . That said , I suspect the short answer is first in
> the 19th century with the invention of photography then by
> the end of the twentieth century with first what we know as
> abstract art then digital imaging,
> All the
> best Stephen
>
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> Tuesday, June 5, 2018, 5:01 PM, Simon Downs <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> Dear William
>
> You could look at the Coldstream Report (1968) which marked
> a formal educational move away from Fine Arts based on
> material skill:
>
>
>
> 'Fine Art
>
>
>
> Whilst painting and sculpture or a combination of the two
> will, we expect, continue to be the main preoccupation of
> students in this area, we do not believe that studies in
> fine art can be adequately defined in terms of chief studies
> related to media. We believe
> that studies in fine art derive from an attitude which may
> be expressed in many ways. Their precise nature will depend
> upon the circumstances of individual colleges.’
>
>
> Sir William Coldstream, 1968 (http://dera.ioe.ac.uk/13935/1/Structure_of_art_and_design_education.pdf)
>
> You could look to the move from mediation that was
> already underway when the Dadaists worked to undermine the
> artefact. But I’m not an art historian, so I shouldn’t
> comment.
> Speaking for myself, I trained as a painter illustrator
> and teach graphic communication at a course where we still
> academically train draftspeople, from life drawing to
> visualisations, analogue and digital. We are doing the sort
> of work that Coldstream
> wrote about in ’68:
>
> 'Graphic Design
> To a very great extent this area which has no chief
> studies already has the freedom to develop the variety of
> emphasis and the flexibility of approach which we seek to
> encourage. It should be noted that many developments in this
> area have gone hand in
> hand with a rapidly increasing interest in communication
> media.’
>
>
> (Ibid)
>
> Best wishes.
>
>
>
> Simon
>
>
>
> Simon
> Downs
>
> Lecturer in Graphic Communication
>
> School of Arts, English and Drama
>
> Loughborough University
> Lead Editor of The PosterEditor of
> TraceyDirector of the Drawing Research
> NetworkRep’ for the University and Colleges
> Union
>
>
>
>
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> 5 June 2018 at 14:39:37, William Mulraney ([log in to unmask])
> wrote:
>
>
>
>
> Hi
>
>
>
>
> Serious Questions.
>
>
>
> When did drawing become so devalued in Art Schools,
> especially in Fine Art Departments.
>
>
>
> Anecdotal evidence - an artist friend of mine was talking to
> a Director of Fine Art at a leading Art School in the UK who
> proclaimed, " well, of course we have computers now -
> so there is no need for the students to learn how to
> draw."
>
>
>
> Another Art School tutor I know of got into trouble for
> organising a life model and a life room session until he
> declared that he was asked to do so by a group of students
> who wanted to learn some of the rudiments of life
> drawing.
>
>
>
> How did we get to this situation?
>
>
>
> Does anyone have links to reading around this change in Fine
> Art Dept. culture or can anyone illuminate me from examples
> of personal experience?
>
>
>
> I don't want to be a hoary old reactionary but I'm
> getting bored sick of attending degree shows and seeing 90
> percent of the students making boring videos and displaying
> banal photographs.
>
>
>
>
>
> Many thanks
>
>
>
>
>
> William
>
>
>
>
>
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