%0 Journal Article
%T Artistic Drawing and Thought Expression: CAFA Drawing Retrospective 2009-2015
%A Bokumoni Akonga Jonas Theoodore
%J Art and Design Review
%P 129-139
%@ 2332-2004
%D 2023
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/adr.2023.112010
%X Artistic drawing is one of the disciplines of
fine arts; it is the art of embellishing our spaces; a means for the artist to
express his thoughts and the medium he uses to provide the viewer with a
reading of society. The artist finds in it an indispensable mode of expression.
Let us specify that ¡°thought¡±, the concept we refer to in this dissertation, concerns
only the artist¡¯s intentions, the vision of the world, and the interpretation
of social realities. Knowing that the expression of thoughts has a
pre-established path which is: speaking or writ<span>ing, it is not daring to attribute the communicative function to
drawings.</span> Thus, is there any expressiveness in the images? Let us see if
we can read the <span>drawing like a book. Does the
artist use the same writing tools as a writer? Can he describe all the social,
historical, and cultural realities by drawing</span> them? By studying this art
and visiting museums of history, we realized that, <span>with ¡°the drawing as a historical document¡±</span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\">,</span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\"> it
was possible to reconstruct</span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\"> past events. Indeed,
from this point of view, we analyzed the content of the <span>drawing to arrive at certainty. Therefore, the artist catches social,
historical,</span> <span>and cultural realities to
interpret them and suggests a pictorial reading with</span> triple value:
aesthetic, historical, and cultural. From the collection of data, we assemble
information on the drawings exhibited at the CAFA, on the original <span>artworks, and in the 798 gallery survey reports
(Contemporary Arts Space,</span> Beijing) to conclude by posing the problem of
the expressiveness of the artis<span>tic drawing
and trying to solve the enigma to enlighten the reading of this</span> pictorial writing.
%K Drawing
%K Expression
%K Artist
%K Viewer
%K Reading
%K Interpretation
%K Analysis
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