I used to think drawing was something I had to learn so that I could to get to painting. Lately I’ve grown to enjoy drawing for its own expressive abilities. Drawing is a spontaneous and immediate art. It is a direct record of the movement of the artist’s hand, a record of movement in time. Drawing can be quick, agile, and impulsive, but as a drawing progresses, the marks accumulate into something less movable.
Sketched quickly on subways and other New York spaces, these drawings by Gregory Muenzen have in them a quality I often see in blind contour line drawings, in which the hand is encouraged to follow a line made by the eye as it moves across the detailed crevices of a subject, and the artist is “blind” by not looking at their paper while the pencil is in motion. I often find these drawings have in them a special infusion of interest. Placement and proportion is secondary to curiosity. The pencil records the intimate act of looking.
In the last post called Yogurt Holds the Blueberry, I talked about thinking of everything in a composition as an active shape, painting the spaces between things, instead of painting an object floating on nothing. If we are painting the space between things, we start to see the “background” as an active shape on the …
In a recent V. Note I talked about how artists study works by other artists. Transcriptions are like artist’s notes, recording selected aspects and observations in an artwork. Sometimes they serve as a jumping off point for artwork in completely new direction. Transcriptions are not copies. For a commission, Frank Auerbach transcribed Titian’s ‘Tarquin and …
Andre Breton – Writer André Breton (French: [ɑ̃dʁe bʁətɔ̃]; 19 February 1896 – 28 September 1966) was a French writer, poet, and anti-fascist. He is known best as the founder of Surrealism. His writings include the first Surrealist Manifesto (Manifeste du surréalisme) of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as “pure psychic automatism”. [divider line_type=”Full …
Writing process Dr Martin Luther King Jr wrote about 450 speeches a year, and delivered somewhere around 2,000 speeches in his lifetime. His most famous works took form over countless iterations and inter-weaving with previous sermons and writings, as well as integrated pieces of feedback from his friends and advisors. Preparations On August 27, 1963, …
Gregory Muenzen
I used to think drawing was something I had to learn so that I could to get to painting. Lately I’ve grown to enjoy drawing for its own expressive abilities. Drawing is a spontaneous and immediate art. It is a direct record of the movement of the artist’s hand, a record of movement in time. Drawing can be quick, agile, and impulsive, but as a drawing progresses, the marks accumulate into something less movable.
Sketched quickly on subways and other New York spaces, these drawings by Gregory Muenzen have in them a quality I often see in blind contour line drawings, in which the hand is encouraged to follow a line made by the eye as it moves across the detailed crevices of a subject, and the artist is “blind” by not looking at their paper while the pencil is in motion. I often find these drawings have in them a special infusion of interest. Placement and proportion is secondary to curiosity. The pencil records the intimate act of looking.
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