Ep 10 Da Vinci Drawing Newberry Aesthetic Evolution 12/12/2019
Da Vinci shows us in his drawing humanity, science, discovery, empathy, light, and beauty. All can be metaphors for life.
Update on Evolution Through Art
The early artist would have been shifting valuable efforts away from life-sustaining work towards the abstract pursuit of art. All animals engage in life-sustaining action, but it would appear as if the artist was rejecting this. Visual art, then as now, has no utilitarian purpose, none whatsoever. Art could not mend things, carve arrows, and build fires. It was not a tool. It did not give warmth, shelter, food, or security. In practical terms it was useless. Diverting resources for such an senseless art adventure would be perceived as a psychosis, the artist having a partial or total break with reality.
Art Beyond Commissions: Exploring the Deeper Purpose and Meaning of Creativity
A teenage acquaintance wanted to catch up with me after decades. He lived in a Beverly Hills mansion with his family and was attended to by a tutor, nanny, manager, assistant, and trainer. In the driveway were five black SUVs, and in the kitchen area were seven security monitors with live footage of the premises. …
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Three Visual Axioms
I just got back the 4th chapter of Energize Your Art from my copy editor. This chapter wraps up the essentialness of form, light, and space in art. I link to my Substack, The Shrewd Artist, using this website has my hub. Three Visual Axioms In the first three chapters, I introduced light, form, and …
Quotes
I love this so much!!! It feels as though I am attempting to shield her from the shadow so she can allow her light force to burst from her heart. The feels very Tao to me, the balance of light and shadow that exists in everything. You are incredible friend, a magnificent artist. -Katie Borntrager, model. …
Energize Your Art, Introduction and Chapter One
INTRODUCTION The college art classroom was extraordinarily messy with easels, open shelving, unfinished canvases stacked upright, props for still-lifes, and high windows with brightly-diffused light from northern exposure. The 64-year-old Edgar Ewing, a wonderful man and artist, was my first art teacher. I was seventeen, and he taught me an art lesson I will never …
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The Wizards, Chapter 5 From Evolution Through Art
Young Da Vinci and Pure Light Vibrations If a young artist was fortunate, he would have guidance from a living mentor. Up to that point, the artist would be limited to having imaginary dialogues with the paintings, reality, and his works. So many times, as a teenage artist, I wished Michelangelo could have told me how …
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Creation, Proportions.
Graphite Study of the Couple for Upcoming Painting It is weird drawing a pose that doesn’t exist, yet all the parts are from real models. They did pose together but the logistics of finding beauty of every section, the right expressions, and weightlessness meant that I had to create one section at a time, never …
Mourning Series – Gut Wrenching, 1992
An Excellent Contrast To Sue Coe’s Porkopolis In 1992 I wrote the review of Sue Coe’s Exhibition, Porkopolis, at the Santa Monica Museum, the same year when I drew this work, Gut Wrenching, from the series Mourning and Rebirth. A year or two before the series two family members died, and a dear friend. The …
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