Tempo di Viaggio
May. 4th, 2005 09:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloThe couple next door were arguing last night. I don't know what they were saying because they were doing it in Urdu. At one point a glass went smash.
Don't let them start hitting one another. I'm not sure I'm brave enough to intervene.
Up the garden path. Knock on the door. "Erm, I couldn't help over-hearing....."
I'd been watching the film that Tarkovsky made about himself preparing to make Nostalgia. It's the cinematic equivalent of a rough charcoal sketch. Tarkovsky sees everything sub specie aeternitatis. What's a little human life with its arguments and its throwing of glasses when the universe is forever? Calm down people, go sit in a field and look at the earth beneath your boots.
Do it for half an hour.
An hour.
That's the film Tarkovsky would have made if he'd been able to get away with it- if we, the paying audience, had been worthy of him. Long, lingering close-ups of soil, of rain falling on the surface of a lake, of waving water-weed. Maybe, just to humour us, he would have allowed the camera to pan...
He appears in his own movie in a denim suit. He never changes into anything else. He has long, silky black hair and a beat-up face like Charlie Bronson's.
Don't let them start hitting one another. I'm not sure I'm brave enough to intervene.
Up the garden path. Knock on the door. "Erm, I couldn't help over-hearing....."
I'd been watching the film that Tarkovsky made about himself preparing to make Nostalgia. It's the cinematic equivalent of a rough charcoal sketch. Tarkovsky sees everything sub specie aeternitatis. What's a little human life with its arguments and its throwing of glasses when the universe is forever? Calm down people, go sit in a field and look at the earth beneath your boots.
Do it for half an hour.
An hour.
That's the film Tarkovsky would have made if he'd been able to get away with it- if we, the paying audience, had been worthy of him. Long, lingering close-ups of soil, of rain falling on the surface of a lake, of waving water-weed. Maybe, just to humour us, he would have allowed the camera to pan...
He appears in his own movie in a denim suit. He never changes into anything else. He has long, silky black hair and a beat-up face like Charlie Bronson's.
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Date: 2005-05-04 06:09 am (UTC)Another exercise which was very illuminating was to draw only the negative spaces around, say, a branch of leaves.
It's amazing!
Here's a third fun thing we did: we were given a print of a famous painting, but it was upside-down, and only one inch of the bottom of the print was revealed at a time.
We were to copy the lines and patterns onto a similarly sized piece of paper, gradually--inch by inch--revealing more of the painting as we copied.
Amazing how well we copied the painting UPSIDE DOWN--we could have never done so well just copying, because the lines and shapes would have been overridden by the brain saying "That's a horse, that's a tree..."
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Date: 2005-05-04 11:25 am (UTC)I was never much good at drawing from life. I got bored too easily. I couldn't wait to be finished with the apples and rumpled tablecloths so I could get back to something interesting- like gladiators poking one another with tridents.
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Date: 2005-05-04 11:35 am (UTC)(I also found life drawing tedious.)
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Date: 2005-05-04 12:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-04 02:46 pm (UTC)