09 March 2011

That Beautiful Line




Original Catalog Cover for the Dante's Wardrobe company

I have a thing for the clean, clear, purposed line of the drawn variety.  As a synesthete, my experience of the world around me always has this strong cast of lines.  A single movement can call up an entire image, drawn in full; a single sound can create a veritable light show of intercrossing lines.  Conversely, seeing a well-drawn image creates a kind of physical calm, an even plane of light and sound. 

Not surprisingly, I am drawn to artists with a strong eye and strong drafting hand.  Here are a few I have long enjoyed (and at the end, a new discovery).


Albrecht Durer


Drawing of Katharina


Portrait of His Mother


Venetian Lady


Hans Holbein the Younger



Catherine, Duchess of Suffolk




Anne Boleyn



Study for the Portrait of the Family of Sir Thomas More


Arthur Rackham



Hansel and Gretel




Undine





The Pre-Raphaelites


Jane Morris Photo & Painting
(Morris was a central muse for the Pre-Raphaelites)



'Jane Morris' by Dante Gabriel Rossetti



Rosetti: Portrait of Anne Miller


Sveta Dorosheva







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