jesus, what a crackpot.
19 Oct 2004 09:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
stop david hockney rewriting art history.
this guy's gone on major news tv trying to claim it's impossible to paint or draw to life without tracing projections and suchlike, and that all the great masters of art have used such devices.
um.
uh.
yeah. i'll just...
:boggle:
this guy's gone on major news tv trying to claim it's impossible to paint or draw to life without tracing projections and suchlike, and that all the great masters of art have used such devices.
um.
uh.
yeah. i'll just...
:boggle:
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Date: 19 Oct 2004 06:38 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 19 Oct 2004 06:45 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 19 Oct 2004 06:48 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 19 Oct 2004 06:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 20 Oct 2004 07:53 am (UTC)I mean, not to brag or anything, but I've taken one freakin' drawing class, and I've done stuff (all by "eyeballing it") that's better than anything I've seen of his.
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Date: 20 Oct 2004 11:18 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 21 Oct 2004 03:32 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 21 Oct 2004 06:32 am (UTC)but the point is--he's got no formal training, as you see in that article, and that probably accounts for a lot of it. even with as little artistic eye and intelligence as he evinces, with training he could draw better than he traces.
what an ass.
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Date: 22 Oct 2004 08:22 am (UTC)