Blind Contour





BLIND CONTOUR DRAWING

 

Popularized by Kimon Nicolaïdes in 1941

Involves observing and carefully dawing the contour of an object without lifting up the medium or looking at the page

 

“The reason most people have difficulty drawing realistically is not because of any lack of physical skill or talent but because they have not been trained to really look at what they see.” ---Terry O’Day, the chair of the art department at Pacific University, in Forest Grove, Oregon

 





Basics of Rudimentary and Sophisticated Greek Sculptures

The Archaic Period: 600-480 B.C.E.

The Classical Period: 490-323 B.C.E.

The Hellenistic Period began after the death of Alexander the Great: 323 B.C.E.

Archaic: Very idealized, still, stiff, no emotion, no motion.

Classical: Still idealized , some emotion and motion starting to show

Hellenistic: Dynamic, realistic

 Classical 

Discus Thrower

Idealized but realism is showing

 Classical

Discus Thrower

You can start to see the realism showing in this piece of artwork

 Classical

Aphrodites

Not much emotion but realism is shown

 Hellenistic

Carved around 320 BC

Very realistic and dynamic

Hellenistic

Aphrodites

Incredibly realistic

This statue was considered so life like that men actually were said to have fallen in love with it and have tried to kiss it.

(escape to the unkown)

                                                            escape to the unknown
I think I like this mostly because of the black and white with the phrase. I think that how the maker of this put this phrase in brackets adds a lot to it. I don't know why, it just (does).