To Draw Is To Be Human

This essay really captured my attention in two of it's topics: first, in the fact that everyone draws every day, and second in the mention of drawing being accepted as a true medium.

The section addressing how drawing is everything, and everyone can draw actually struck me as funny. It pointed out the irony of the statement, "I can't draw." It's something that way to many people commonly say. This article's mention of how even walking from point A to point B is drawing was something I've never even thought of before. I feel as though the next time I hear someone say, "I can't draw," I will have to point out to them that if that is indeed true, they cannot actually be human.

The second point of this article that intrigued me was how the author talks of drawing as a recently recognized art form. I don't know whether I agree with this or not. Drawing is without a doubt much, much more prominent now days than it used to be, but the places in which it is now most dominant are schools. Drawing makes art class easier for everyone. Considering how in older times art was a painting you spent nine months on, art could not be taught anywhere on the lower, middle, high school, or even college level if held to this standard. Drawing is simple, clean (usually) and for the most part fairly fast. So there is a massive overabundance of nothing but drawing coming out of most learning institutions, painting and sculpture are now the minorities. But where I disagree with the author is on a professional level. It is true that art can and is literally anything, but the more admired pieces in galleries are most of the time paintings of some sort, or really any other media. Technically if you define drawing as in this article as "anything" than this observation is untrue, but if you look at it from a classical art standpoint, pencil and paper are absent from most art exhibitions.

-Lauren McKillip