Pictorial Space throughout Art History: Cézanne and ... - ARAS
Pictorial Space throughout Art History: Cézanne and ... - ARAS
Pictorial Space throughout Art History: Cézanne and ... - ARAS
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<strong>ARAS</strong> Connections Issue 2, 2012<br />
Instinct <strong>and</strong> sensitivity to the rectangle<br />
A painting by a six-year-old girl is shown in plate 3. The vertical stem <strong>and</strong><br />
the horizontal b<strong>and</strong> of blue<br />
each divide the rectangle into<br />
proportionate sections. These<br />
major divisions create a<br />
framework upon which there<br />
are beautiful contrasts of color<br />
<strong>and</strong> form. The picture<br />
occupies the whole rectangle<br />
<strong>and</strong> is both vigorous <strong>and</strong><br />
unified.<br />
Because it is<br />
spontaneous <strong>and</strong> has not been<br />
deliberately reworked this<br />
painting is not plastic, but it is<br />
instinctively sensitive to the<br />
overall rectangle. A naive artist may also show this childlike sensitivity. As an<br />
artist matures <strong>and</strong> develops technical skills, he or she may lose sensitivity to the<br />
rectangle. Then, in order to paint plastically, he or she must rediscover that<br />
sensitivity.<br />
Plate 3 Emma McDowell, A Child's Painting<br />
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