Page 24 - Studio International - May 1966
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David Hockney's drawings
by Gene Baro
How an artist draws tells more about what he feels than tion in perception. Even at its most elaborate, it offers a
perhaps any other artistic activity. Drawing provides the sense of spontaneity or immediacy. Unlike painting or
most direct connexion between eye and hand, and the sculpture, which are more deliberative and analytical,
secret of great draughtsmanship is sometimes no more— and more concerned necessarily with techniques and the
or rather no less—than the bringing together in the same properties of materials, drawing can take most of its
line or pattern of the thing observed and the emotion it conditions as granted. There need be little accommoda-
is stimulating. Drawing is an essentializing of the emo- tion between perception and execution; for line, pattern,
Beirut 1966
Pen and ink
10 x 121 in.
This and the other pen and
ink drawings illustrated here
and overleaf are studies for
the illustrations to an edition
of Cavafy's Poems to be
published by Editions Alecto.
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