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Andrew Marr - About Drawing (What is Drawing About (Religion and Power…
Andrew Marr - About Drawing
Illustration
Cross Cultural Bridge
Drawing only made commercial sense 1870s-1930s
When photography was too grainy, expensive & low quality
1960s
Photo Journalism
TV beat comics
Drawing/painting NOT fine art
Drawers are everywhere
Is it just an escape?
CH2 Drawing & Happiness
Hard Concentrated Work
Freedom and Play
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Flow
Hard & have aptitude for
Ego falls away, time flies
Every action, movement & thought follows
Not Chilling Out
Absorbed activity & skill
Matthew Crawford
Digital Immersion Limits Intelligence
Intelligence is embodied
Our hands & muscles are a part of our conciousness
If we leave the world of doing to others - we are becoming stupid
Doing is hard and failure is frequent
Humility, persistence & greater self reliance
The Brain Interprets Lines
A necessary shorthand
A near instantaneous translation of lines to reality
Good drawing
And abstraction of an abstraction
Allows us to see and think about seeing
Allows the mind to fill in the gaps
The drawn mark resists surrender to pictorial illustration
Finger twicthes
clues on paper
miniature archaeology
"I could see the precise points, therefore the precise moments, when the artist had pushed harder''
Being conscious of the shortcut yet aware of the real drawn object
Record of the drawer drawing the scene (author, story and reader)
Doesn't hide itself
What is being drawn on?
You read a drawing
Small - book sized
Mind & hand moving at speed, ripping across time and space
Tension between brain and body (I and the World)
The hand extends the eye
Observe - memory - draw
Ratio of look to draw creates different drawings
Drawing Illustrates your memory and attentiveness
Heart, hand and eye
Every drawing is a map of a newly discovered island
Selection
Lines
Dominant Shape
Drawing Hand Learns
Not the boring toolhead
Hand learns extensively
Ligaments & muscles learn through repetition
scale
What is Drawing About
People view art to be changed
Art galleries are secular temples
It has meaning
Immerses you freshly in the world you live in
Transports you to a better place
A lot like written language
Much older than written language
Drawing has not fundamentally changed
Starting afresh each time
To remember & to document
There is no other way to do it -- not photography nor words
Religion and Power
Intended to depict paradise
death,good life, temptations
Transformed to be about beauty & skill
love, sex, drunkenness, old age, cruelty, parental joy
When did drawing reach NORMAL People
After the renaissance
Castiglione - drawing encourages the expression of idealism
Private practice for mental self improvement
Drawing is good in and of itself
It makes you think - see the hidden patterns all around you
Changes your brain
Philosophy - Aesthetics
There is an average landscape that humans respond to - based on survival needs
1st Drawing Phase - Self Conscious Search for Beauty