chiaroscuro

The old master made thousands of drawings during centuries. Always starting with tiny dots, thin strokes, short and long lines that could shape textures where light bounces and shadow diffuses. Thanks to his formula, he could draw anything that we know and that we don’t know. And that’s what he did, and because of that, people named him the master. But one day, ages ago, no one cared anymore about words and things, and because of that, he left out the figures, the landscapes, animals, plants and objects, and even the deities and their symbols. “I can’t stop drawing”, his hand said to him. “Then we draw”, the master answered. “Look at this pebble the many ricochets it’s having upon the clear and calm water. From now on, we have to draw like this. Repetition, refraction, randomness, intuition, gesture. Take a sheet and give the first stroke.” And something new happened, something both bright and dark. Light and shadows merged into chiaroscuro.

“Ses idées ressemblent à des carreaux de vitres, entassées dans un panier de vitrier, claires une à une, et obscures toutes ensemble.” - Jules Renard.

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