(DOWNLOAD) "Putting Away Childish Things: Incidents of Recovery in Tolkien and Haddon (J.R.R. Tolkien, Mark Haddon) (Critical Essay)" by Mythlore ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Putting Away Childish Things: Incidents of Recovery in Tolkien and Haddon (J.R.R. Tolkien, Mark Haddon) (Critical Essay)
- Author : Mythlore
- Release Date : January 22, 2008
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 222 KB
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AT FIRST, LEARNING TO DRAW is primarily a process of deliberate forgetting. An untrained draughtsperson sees their subject as an entire thing--a chair, a ball, a hand--and commits a visual representation of the entire thing to paper. The results are recognizable, but not life-like; the hand, for example, tends to resemble nothing so much as five flattened sausages arranged around a frisbee. The viewer acknowledges a representation of an abstract category, but there is no link between the final drawing and any specific object. The trained artist, by contrast, is able to look at their subject and see a collection of lines, highlights, and shadows. The functionality of the object, its categorical nature (hand, ball, chair) may be of importance before the drawing is begun, or after it is completed, but while it is being composed, there is only a straight line here that dips down a little before rising into a sharp curve and a little triangle of shadow there with a darker spot right along its edge ...
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