Most cave drawings are better than what Martin Van Buren, the two Harrisons, Harry S. Truman and Lyndon Johnson have to offer in this book.
There are masterpieces, too — "The Starry Night," "The Night Café," "Gauguin's Chair," and the indelibly weird "The Potato Eaters" — as well as wonderful drawings (none better, in all of art, than "Café Terrace at Night").
The mannequins of children, they told a slightly irritated Sarah Montague on the Today programme on Thursday, weren't children, and the genitalia weren't genitalia, and their defaced Goya drawings were "better" than Goya.
Go to Coroflot.com and spend a few hundred dollars to have a bright freelancer or a RISD student work you up some drawings or, better yet, a basic 3D model.
Of course, some drawings are better suited to artistic permanence than others (animals, mermaids and houses, yes; awkward mom portraits, maybe not so much).
When we want to get inside the heads of great painters and sculptors, we often return to their early drawings, to better understand the source of their ideas and appreciate them in their more raw and unpolished form.
The Drawing Center has introduced the public to drawings by artists better know for painting such as Richter and Leon Golub, or performance and conceptual artists like Liam Gillick and Matt Mullican.
In comparison to broadband reflectance imaging, the narrowing, and shifting of the spectral band used to examine works of art (through the use of either optical filters or a spectrometer), changes the optimal contrast of the paint, and preparatory drawings may be better visually separated from other paint layers [1].
His black-and-white drawings are even better.
I remember her telling me that kids' drawings were always better than grown-ups', which was very encouraging.
