Students,
Trying to reproducing the work of a master is an art practice for students that's been around almost forever. Much more recently is the idea to reproduce a Picasso drawing, and more recent still is the task before you now:
- In your Pink sketchbook, reproduce (by drawing, not any other means) the image below. It's a line drawing by artist Pablo Picasso of composer Igor Stravinsky. The reason you're being asked to draw this upside down is explained well by Pink:
"[This is] so you know nothing about what you're drawing. The goal is to trick the left hemisphere and clear the way for the right. When the left doesn't know what the right is doing, the mind is free to see relationships and to integrate those relationships into a whole."As you know from your reading, the aptitude of Symphony is all about seeing relationships and integrating them into a whole. A great path to that end is Drawing, and it's especially appropriate that we use a portrait by a master artist of a master composer to get a better understanding of our own aptitude for Symphonic capacity.
We'll work on this in class on Tuesday, and you can take more time out of class if you need it. For Thursday's class, we'll be working on self-portraits!
~mrc
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