`Drawing is essentially about leaving your mark, usually on a surface, where a tool deposits some kind of material trace on or into a flat plane. (Open College of the Arts (2015), Drawing 1: Drawing Skills, pp.16) Oxford Dictionary defines drawing as a picture or diagram made with a pencil, pen, or crayon rather than paint. (Oxford Dictionary (Online) Available from: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/drawing [Accessed 31/05/18])
But not only pencil drawing on the flat surface recognized as a drawing. Emma Dexter in Vitamin D claims that “Footprints in the snow, breath on the window…, lines traced by a finger in the sand – we literally draw in and on the material world. Drawing is [art of what it means to be human…” (Dexter, 2013, 6)
What do we call a `drawing`? Some people believe that there are no common surface and materials as a matter where the `drawing` occur. If snail trails for instance within an everyday environment we can identify as a drawing as well than how does it match with a conscious expression of a human being on flat planes?
In terms of drawing author in case of animal and mankind was a nature (I think we can accept that a human being have been generated by nature and it is a part of it). But the reason, why drawing was created, is about expression. I could assume that snail trails or spider’s webs were not conceived rather it was done by instinct. This is an opposite to the expression of a man, such as conscious copying or creating an image for decorative reasons. The final result and intention are different.
So I believe we need to use the term `drawing` more precise. The intention of creating something which could reflect or state an idea has value for identification of this term. As an example I would like to illustrate my thoughts with Tomás Saraceno`s spider web where it was conscious intention of letting spider complete a work in a particular environment.
Bibliography and references
- Emma Dexter (2013) Vitamin D: New perspectives in drawing. Phaidon Press Limited London
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