It’s so just line that I’m pretty sure the dog would not comprehend it as a dog paw. The dog’s paw itself - the actual paw on the actual dog - has form - even geometrical form (if you incline to think that God (hearts) math). That dog paw in the center of the page, for instance, is all line. If I had offered my drawing below, sketches of a dog (which wisely I didn’t) I believe I would have been informed that I drew the dog’s head in a geometrical way because it seems to have form.īut actually I just drew contour lines around stuff (and shaded in parts). If you’re a mathematician of a certain stripe that idea might ring true, but it’s not true of art. My host and sympathetic guests appeared to assert that there really was no other way, that all things are at long last reducible to geometry. (Didn’t Leonardo da Vinci do a blog post about that …?)Īnyway, I got into trouble. I guess I notice the sieve aspect of a pedagogical approach most when it goes contrary to some manner that’s habitual with me since we all tend to use ourselves and our familiar routines as templates for understanding the world. It’s just that the vast everything else that geometry misses deserves a shout out as well. (She acknowledges reluctantly.) Nothing wrong with the information that a geometrical approach emphasizes. The same is true about contour line of course. While I have nothing against geometry, I offered an opinion that geometrical approaches only capture certain features and omit others. Unbeknownst to me the author of the site where I commented offers drawing instruction and has very particular ideas about how to draw, believing that things should be constructed geometrically. But when I look at the whole world, I often think about it in lines - lines that run round the contours of surfaces with a few lines tossed in willy-nilly just because.Įxpressing this opinion got me into a bit of a kerfuffle recently at an artist’s post on social media. Okay, maybe I wouldn’t go quite that far. If I had my way the whole world would be outlined.
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