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| Julie Mehretu, Rising Down, 2008 |
A review of an exhibit at MoMA, "On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century," discusses the exhibit's unexpected selection of works. While most people consider drawing to be something constructed by taking a pencil to paper, this exhibit looks at drawing as a process and result that can be undertaken using a variety of methods. This show purports to emphasize that a drawing is merely a study of line and how this form connects to and is separate from the space around it; as stated by Kandinsky, "line is a point set in motion." As is evidenced by the pieces in the exhibit, only about a quarter of which would pass for a conventional drawing, artists of the twentieth century have taken drawing to new heights, drawing in three dimensions and through film. The author identifies the importance of collage and its multitude of inspired works.
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| Luis Camnitzer, The Instrument and its Work, 1976 |
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