Reality, Color, Appeal

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Reality, Color, Appeal

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Published on before 2005


Iian Neill: Drawing happens to be customarily associated with pencil, pen, or charcoal, but I think we can also talk about 'drawing in paint', 'drawing in stone', and even 'drawing in architecture'.

Frederick Hartt writes of the marriage between the sculptural and drawing techniques of Michelangelo. The stone carving tools of subia, calcagnulo and gradinina correspond to contour, broad diagonal hatching, refined crosshatching and final stippled finish -- analagous to polishing marble with pumice and straw.

It is written by Clements that Michelangelo strongly believed in artistic transference..... "genius is not parcelled out in parts, if an artist does one painting evidencing possesion of the sensus interior, he did not have to furnish other proofs of genius." In the case of Michelangelo who can argue against this belief of positive transfer, he carved his drawings with hatching, and drew into the stone. As an aside, one doesn't commonly see the wonderfully expressive potential of hatched drawings in this day and age???

Mike