Can anyone show some famous examples, and why?
2006-06-30 10:20:32 · 6 answers · asked by Olivia 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Drawing & Illustration
The basis of all art is drawing. Though color has a wider public appeal, its the graphic art of pencil drawing that has given rawness to the original ideas that artist have tried to captutre in their canvases. The amazing pencil renderings of M. C. Escher's 'drawing hands' is a classic example of a graphic transformation of a simple medium. Much of Leonardo's notebooks are drawings in pencil and are the remarkable examples of this technical mastery. Most of these drawings could stand by itself and could convey what the artist tried toexpress in hi/her art.
2006-06-30 12:05:32 · answer #1 · answered by tazaharra 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes - as in the original meaning of the word, art means doing, putting pencil to paper, if you will! Look at any of the sketches by Ingres, Rembrandt or Degas, and no doubt about drawing being an art form.
2006-06-30 10:24:53 · answer #2 · answered by howardaphillips 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course.
Definition:
13 a (1) : to produce a likeness or representation of by making lines on a surface
Does painting, sketching, and various other forms of visual art not fall into that?
2006-06-30 10:25:51 · answer #3 · answered by mike_w40 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It isn't a form of art? Da Vinci did drawings of ideas and himself.
2006-06-30 10:22:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take a look at Matisse ink drawings. Albrecht Durer self portrait. Picasso charcoal. Sometimes the rough sketch or preliminary study is freer and finer than the finished work.
2006-06-30 13:27:31 · answer #5 · answered by Nan one one 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry but I forget which it was, either Wittgenstein or Kant that considered drawing the purist art form of all. You can research why.
2006-06-30 15:08:59 · answer #6 · answered by subversiveelement 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋