Wednesday, October 7, 2015

umbra, shadow drawings by Marcelo Guimarães Lima



https://archive.org/details/UMBRADrawingsByMarceloGuimaraesLima2015

2015

"The story of the origin of drawing, as told by Pliny, the Elder (2), states that the fixing of the contours of the shadow of a human profile on a wall, a portrait made by a Corinthian maid to serve as remembrance of her departing loved one, was the beginning of the figurative arts of the ancients. A fugitive form is made into a fixed pattern, as an aide-mémoire of the heart, both the sign of and the “replenishment”, that is, the negation of an absence.

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https://archive.org/details/UMBRADrawingsByMarceloGuimaraesLima2015

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