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Peter Garrett · 05-29-2002, 08:59 AM

Jim!

Thanks so much for posting the drawings. There is another one of Stravinsky (in Betty Edwards' "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain")which I think is a miracle of economical line drawing. Unfortunately I have no scanner or I'd put it up. Certainly not "realist" in the literal sense- but what confidence and superlative seeing!

Perhaps, in the end, it's a mistake to compare "realism" with "modernism". The artists in each case are aiming at such different things!

I enjoy both and can be critical of both. But it is certainly instructive when we try to replicate what we admire. I find Cezanne just as complex and fascinating as David, Gericault or Turner- (another painter who worked across the divide....)

05-29-2002, 08:59 AM	#79
Peter Garrett Associate Member Joined: May 2002 Location: Wollongong, Australia Posts: 33	Jim! Thanks so much for posting the drawings. There is another one of Stravinsky (in Betty Edwards' "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain")which I think is a miracle of economical line drawing. Unfortunately I have no scanner or I'd put it up. Certainly not "realist" in the literal sense- but what confidence and superlative seeing! Perhaps, in the end, it's a mistake to compare "realism" with "modernism". The artists in each case are aiming at such different things! I enjoy both and can be critical of both. But it is certainly instructive when we try to replicate what we admire. I find Cezanne just as complex and fascinating as David, Gericault or Turner- (another painter who worked across the divide....)