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ArtDecember 2009 Exhibition note On "Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500–1800," The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. The Florentines established the primacy of draftsmanship, elevating drawing to an art form in its own right. Michelangelo is supposed to have said, “painting, sculpture, and architecture culminate in drawing. It is the primary source, and the soul of all kinds of painting, and the root of every science.” By the time the locus of artistic theory shifted to France in the seventeenth century, two camps had formed: artists who emphasized draftsmanship and those who favored colorism. Poussin was probably the first French artist to see drawing and color as antithetical. Le Brun preached the rationality of drawing against drowning in an “ocean of color.” “Renaissan ... This article is available to subscribers and for individual purchaseSubscribe to TNC (Print and Online editions) Subscribe to TNC (Online only) This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 28 December 2009, on page 42 Copyright © 2012 The New Criterion | www.newcriterion.com http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Exhibition-note-4343
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