Thursday, March 6, 2008

Peter Doig is a painter




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i've been thinking about drawing vs. painting.
when is a painting a painting?
when is a painting more of a drawing?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Good question. Wouldn't it be paint vs. some other medium though?

Avert Farm said...

i'm questioning weather it's more than just the medium of paint that makes a painting. some artists use paint but the end work is more like a colorful drawing. i'm trying to figure out what it is for me that makes an artist a painter, and not just someone that paints.

Anonymous said...

Well, I'd almost think it's the amount of detail. The more detail, the more like a drawing it is. With a painting, you can have less detail because it's more about the affect from a couple of steps away. The shadow and stuff is more inmporatant. Details are still there, but in a different way. That's how I see it anyway.