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