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This is a site for adults and Art schools some contents may offend. 'Good drawing is an organic act, a process by which the artist's repertoire of gestures tracks with and across the multitudinous actions and events of the world. Bad drawing is mechanistic, rigid, fanatic in its attempt to fixate life in surface illusion; it is a hollow shell containing little blood or breath. The drawing which is made with energy, flow, exaggeration, distortion, subtlety, ommission, suggestion, emphasis, changing and moving line, varying speeds and rhythms produces animated forms and scenes which pulse with vigor.
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Mario Minichiello - artist and illustrator. Commissions, personal journals, reportage |
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The best artists portraying humanity throughout history knew this and their use and mastery of gesture is the most direct equivalent of visual experience and our immersion in a constantly changing environment. This kind of image making, in which Minichiello is an adept, is difficult — and doubly so nowadays, with its disparaged overtones of originality and romanticism. It admits and foregrounds the subjectivity and empathy of the maker in the image, and his participation in the world — which most postmodern genres deny, sublimate or disguise. It is also indicative that Minichiello's subjects are naked persons and not " figures" or "nudes," the privileged terms of aesthetics, (in Sir Kenneth Clark's antiquated and misogynous distinction,) thus retrieving the body from the constructions of studio art and fashion'. |
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