Chapter One: The Astronomical Realm

drawing, painting, and sculpture
explained
they constitute a "making visible"
one simple truth
line and mark are the basic elements by which the work assumes its concrete visibility through drawing
scratching
staining it.

forming a visual (or visible) statement which relates to personal knowledge,
personal experience.  He is giving a concrete shape to psychological events
which occupy his consciousness.
a graphic statement?
impression of marks on a ground or surface.

marks
three general categories
lines of points or dots, or of a marked general area.
more concentrated,
diffused.
first
satisfactions
ability to recognize the work of a particular master.

not necessary
the signature
his name is
over the image in
no two great artists
drawing in quite the same way.

his creative "touch"
Touch constitutes the kinesthetic factor-
or the craft factor
relationship
drawing instrument
the surface
nerve-muscle coordination
(                  )
intellectual process
mood
is reflected
free-action
deliberate-precision
men, horses, and angel
ambiguity
line and marks
excite and evoke feelings of passion and drama.

precision par excellence
calm and regulated.

may not fire us,
firmness of its line
us precise information
sense of order
regularity
          two-dimensional space
                   light and dark areas of tone,
                seated harlequin
             sense of order and regularity,
                      expression of a certain emotional serenity or equilibrium.

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    not concerned with perceived objects;
             nonfigurative, or nonobjective, abstract images.
                   a man's understanding and attitudes,
                   do not have to use perceived objects as the vehicle.
                                     basically nonobjective.

eye
thoughts
feelings
psychological tension results

compulsion to translate the events of the mental and emotional life into the
                                                       concrete image
             psychological tension develops
                      the kinesthetic problem of manipulating the chosen medium to
             psychological tension and physical (kinesthetic) tension

three modes of awareness.
       intellect
eye
"doing."

lines and marks
basic elements
drawing arts
two-dimensional.

your sense of touch
       your own.
       feel the kind of line that will
       thought and feeling

             keep the pressure uniform
                            even-tempered lines,
             a uniform thickness and tone value.

sable hair brush
       most versatile and flexible of instruments,
             sound,
       becomes a visual experience in its own right.

should stop not when satisfied, but when physically you feel a free-action
                                                    response,
                         Start off by moving the point of the pen or brush in any direction...
                         stop...and move in a different direction.  Stop.  Move again.

a line results from a point being set in motion-

a line possesses weight, tone, and texture;
travels at various rates of speed;