Tag: Art Theory

compelled to make marks: Ingres; Line

compelled to make marks: Ingres; Line

The difference between what we see and a sheet of white paper with a few thin lines on it is very great. Yet this abstraction is one which we seem to have adopted almost instinctively at an early stage in our development not only in Neolithic graffiti but in early Egyptian drawings.

 

compelled to make marks: a classical perspective

compelled to make marks: a classical perspective

I’ve been thinking on the question of what compels me to draw. This has led to questioning what has moved other artists to pick up …