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scratchmark — Sunday Session April 11
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Published: 2010-04-12 04:13:54 +0000 UTC; Views: 301; Favourites: 3; Downloads: 2
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Today, someone in the class saw what I was doing and said I was 'obsessed with accuracy"!Given the ethos I bring to the classes, they couldn't pay me a higher compliment.. then again, if I was obsessed, I might have finished her feet.
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I'd say that's a compliment. One of the main purposes of a figure drawing class is to learn how to observe a complex 3D subject and translate it accurately onto a 2D surface.
On a related note, I think an artist can only truly abstract something after they know how to draw realism. Otherwise "abstraction" is just a smokescreen for lack of skill.
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Good point- I really agree with you there.. the great grandpappy of the abstract, Picasso, was a child prodigy as a realistic painter, and I kind of think that in order to grow and develop, he naturally wandered off into abstraction... then there is John Singer Sargent, who did wonderfully impressionistic, yet very accurate portraits.. You look at his technique up close those, and his paintings are actually wonderfully abstract.
Like any musician would say, accuracy comes first, then you can run wild with confidence. Hope I get there one day. =0)
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