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Drawing
Drawing can be defined as the making of marks––lines and shapes formed with pen, pencil, brush, chalk, crayon, graphite, charcoal, or any tool that will make marks on a surface. The surface can be paper, a wall, the ground, canvas, ceramic, or any kind of surface that will accept the marks. The act of drawing and the object of drawing are both called drawing. It is one of the oldest art forms. Drawings are found in the cave paintings of Lascaux in France and in the cave drawings of Canyon de Chelly National Monument in Arizona, USA. Greek pottery has drawings on it and African tribal objects have drawings on them.
The monumental earth work SPIRAL JETTY, Rozel Point, Great Salt Lake, Utah is also a drawing using mud and earth to create a gigantic shape that can be experienced from the air. It is a drawing of magnificently large scale. Drawings are the most intimate way an artist can connect with the viewer and with other artists. No matter what the image, whether it be representational or abstract, the individual marks are the same for everyone who makes a mark on a surface. Anyone who looks at a pencil drawing immediately recognizes the contact of the of the tool on the support. The pencil line is immediately recognizable and personal and anyone who has held a pencil knows how it feels to use such a tool, even if they believe that they "can't draw." Anyone can draw if they give themselves permission to be free to try and to be free to fail. Art involves risk taking. Any attempt at making a drawing is the first step in learning how to draw. Making of marks is one of the most elementary of human activities. It is available to anyone and requires no special training. Drawing is a medium that is able to directly express the artist's ideas and viewpoint. It can be formal and very carefully composed or it can be spontaneous and documentary. It can be the expression of a preliminary sketch that will later be made into a painting or sculpture or it can exist as a work of art on its own and can be considered the artist's graphic handwriting. It can be "doodles" or graffiti. It can be cartoons or done with a computer digitally. Drawing is automatically abstract because it reduces the three dimensional environment in which we live to a line on a two dimensional plane. This is true even if the intent of the drawing is representational.
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