Thursday's group - Response

At Thursday’s class, we discussed about what “drawing” is. What drawing was in the past and what it is now. Most of the groups came up with similar answers and reasoning. In the past, drawing was a part of life. Whether it was for recording events or religious reasoning, early human use drawing as a way of survival. Today, it is more about self-expression and this is true in just art in general. I, myself, believe that we don’t really appreciate it as much as our early ancestors did because nowadays, there is so much more different ways and method going about recording or what not.

We also discussed what method drawing should or are used for. One of those was drawing as a purpose of learning. Why do masters of art succeed? They sketched out their ideas first before painting the final product. It makes complete sense that if you draw a lot, you learn from your drawing and get a better understanding from it.

However, I think that drawing or what we think drawing is, is based on the realm of our own personal level. What you consider drawing to be is different from what others consider drawing. You may think one way is cool and others may say it’s cliché. But think about it for a minute… we are in Drawing III! It’s supposed to be a class where anyone can do a research topic on whatever it is he or she wants to learn about. So I don’t know why we can’t do a certain research just because one or two student think the topic is “cliché.” For example, if you say flowers are “cliché” but a student, who really wants to learn more about flowers, really want to do research drawing flowers, why can’t that student do so? We can’t just sit down and say this is what everyone should do and not do. We can’t decide for everyone just because people speak their opinions on some questions. That takes away the whole purpose of why everybody is in the class in the first place. The reason why everyone is here is to research and projects based on whatever they want to learn, even if that subject is flowers. To be honest, I think the discussion brought out more confusion and frustration. I like the first half of it when we just talked about our opinions of what we think drawing was, but I really didn’t like how we have to ingrate that into the semester goals and pretty much turn it into limitations for our individual projects. (if that’s where it’s leading to)