Not in my view but I do regard drawing quality as the most obvious indicator of an artist's overall capabilities because it is the chief mode of making visual form. The ability to do portraits well or poorly do depends on the artist's eyes, brain, art supplies and the sympathy and magnanimity of the subject/patron.
Berg should stop coming up with quotations that are supposedly expressing universal rules of art. Even some games that do have rules, like chess, enable more possibilities than can be described in any form at all short of infinitude. Portraiture has no rules so how can one even begin to say what is and isn't necessary to it? Can we get past these dumb issues, please? wc ----- Original Message ---- From: joseph berg <[email protected]> To: aesthetics-l <[email protected]> Sent: Sat, June 12, 2010 5:48:19 PM Subject: "Again and again experience has proved that the more deeply versed an artist is in drawing, the less he is able to paint portraits." (Giovanni Battista Armenini) Is that true?
