Sketches, Scribbles, Drawings

About the Author Academic drawing [...] ruled the roost in Europe. Now it is all passé. Whatever the modern European might think, art has been there for infinitely longer. Europe is, after all, not the whole world. Different kinds of art have had different disciplines, approaches, angles of perception. The Greeks and the Romans, those role models of the Renaissance. did not go through the same exercises. Neither did the others. Nor did they have the same intentions. Did the artists from Altamira go to art school? Learn anatomy? Wander about with a sketchbook? But his drawings are no less true or dynamic. Our sculptors and painters did not tread the same path, either. In each part of the world, artists respond to what they see or feel in their own ways. And make their own kind of statements. Even the strength of [...] Picasso lay in his overriding his academic preconcert and seeking alternatives.

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