Section 03 of 07
Looking
What twenty minutes buys. 4 entries.
03- 03.1Turner's sketchbooksSome three hundred books, now in the Tate, worked in pencil on toned paper and annotated in a private shorthand — the largest surviving record of one artist looking.Read →
- 03.2
Delacroix in MoroccoNotebooks filled in 1832 that supplied his paintings for the next thirty years, because a drawing made on the spot carries information a memory does not.Read → - 03.3
Measuring by eyeSighting with a pencil is a method, not a mannerism: it converts the world into proportions you can transfer.Read → - 03.4
What the camera missesA drawing records attention — what you decided mattered — which is exactly what a photograph averages out.Read →
Named in this section
J. M. W. Turner
Some three hundred sketchbooks, Tate
Worked in pencil on toned paper and annotated the pages in a private shorthand; the books were kept back rather than sold, and reached public ownership after his death.
Eugène Delacroix
Morocco notebooks, 1832
Filled notebooks on the journey to Morocco and drew on that material in the studio for the rest of his working life.
Elsewhere in the register
01
On Location
Drawing where the thing is.
4 entries →02Materials
What survives being carried.
4 entries →04Sketchbooks
The object itself.
3 entries →05Witness
Drawing where a camera was not welcome.
3 entries →06The Page
Composition under time pressure.
3 entries →07Collections
Where the notebooks are held.
2 entries →