This is how the drawing sat on the page.
You can see that the artist/student, Linné Dosé, has developed a love of composition and form. The drawing suggests a still life, you know, the usual pottery. But notice, we don’t get details here, no loyalty to the objects, no shadow and reflected-light games.
A work of art tells you how it wants to be looked at. This drawing directs your mind away from literalness. It says, forget the pots.
Shape, Form, Space!
As it sits on the drawing paper it extends horizontally and that suggests a setting, a certain degree of literalness.
Now look what happens when we crop it to a square.
The forms are so much more pure forms.
The square format will do that. Uncanny. It speaks to our modern sensibility.
Why would that be?
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artamaze by Katherine Hilden 