Raphael was a renaissance artist best known for his extremely large drawing with great technical skill, this piece of art combined a large group of philosophers that never met each other into one piece of art all together. He helped push art to the west and made art more accepted in Europe and also pushed art and drawing into the educational systems of western Europe. Drawing and art was described as the best reflector of man’s highest faculty.
The eye tracking part of the documentary wasn’t focused necessarily on one artist however it was very interesting to me, I loved seeing the difference between the trained artists and the novice, with the trained artist being very deliberate with their gaze and marks, where the novice looks desperately for something to grasp onto, to draw. This technology has come a long way since this documentary and it is even more accessible and there are other technologies that I find very interesting. For example I have a VR headset (Oculus Rift) and with this headset I can go into a 3d room and create shapes and models then walk around them and pick them up and turn them and flip them and interact in many different ways and all of this technology really makes art a very interesting thing that is constantly evolving.
Nadia Chomyn is an enigma as she had major mental disabilities that almost left her without the ability to speak however she could draw pictures and images that would be better than me while she was only at the age of 3. Her art is similar to Frank Auerbach in the fact that she would simply draw over other drawings that she had previously done, making a multi layered abstract drawing. While some of these drawings were very abstract it is very impressive to see how realistic her Horse drawing is from such a young age.