ART 1OS3 Chapter Notes - Chapter chapter 1: Weegee, Thrall, Ambivalence
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Criticism, connoisseurship (judge of taste), and the phenomenology of drawing (the complex interrelation of marking and meaning, making and viewing). Through drawing, structure is understood more open than that of a painting. Ambivalence (mixed feelings on something) is an essential and functioning aspect of drawing. Painting tends to incorporate its constructive units within a tighter texture of representational pretence (make-belief/ faking), complicated by the more elusive (di cult to nd) workings of colour. Drawing, when heavily worked, will reveal the process of its making. Between its reality and material mark (pigmented substance applied to a particular ground) the draw line exists, like the surface on which it is applied, in potentia (power?). The semiotic (study of symbols) invites interpretation that is requisite (necessary) for its very functioning which is the viewers participation in constructing the meaning of the artwork. In the abstraction (concept) of geometry, a line is the locus (place) of a point a length without breadth (range).