Tuesday 10 August 2010




(A busy day…got some reading done during periods of waiting, but drawing suffered badly)



Course work: Got a few preliminary marks down on a larger tonal drawing, on a piece of grey paper about 35 x 46 cm, but was too tired to do more.



Reading:



Leonard Shlain Art and Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time and Light

William Morrow, New York 1991

Pp. 424-437

(This book is a challenge to the reader. The author’s major premise is that many of the seminal discoveries of modern physics were (unconsciously) prefigured by artists of the era. In discussing this interesting viewpoint, the author delves deeply, but comprehensibly, into physics, and almost as deeply into art history. At a few points he seems to be straining his data a bit to make it fit his ideas, and in a few other places he seems to stray off into metaphysics, but this is a book that will reward the diligent and determined reader, and will provide food for additional thought.)



James Elkins Why Art Cannot Be Taught

University of Illinois Press, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 2001

Pp. 1-10



Total time: 55 minutes