Tag: realism

• What (besides the obvious) do you gain from copying?

  …and by you, I mean me. What have I gained from copying?  Here is a preliminary list of pedagogical incentives to be derivative.  There is copying, and then there is copying. Technical skills on a budget I usually think of my high school art classes as the beginning of my art education.  What did we […]

  cwampole

  November 3, 2013

  Research

  appropriation, art history, copying, craft, painting, realism, trompe l’oeil

• Our hubris regarding realism

  [ This paper was written in November 2012 to highlight the central irony of realistic painting. ] Naively, we artists often expect our familiarity with art to protect us from its tricks; like wise fools, we fall prey to its more disingenuous incarnations.  As a prime example, consider the paradox of realistic painting.  It pretends […]

  cwampole

  October 9, 2013

  Research

  art history, realism, trompe l’oeil