Getting back in touch Kneebone, Roger
Lancet,
04/2018, Letnik:
391, Številka:
10128
Journal Article
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...students are still taught the skills of clinical examination, although pressures to reduce hospital stay mean fewer opportunities to spend time examining patients.Digital technology provides far ...more accurate information than physical examination, and there is a sense that students no longer need to trust their fingers to see or that touching is a waste of time.
Late in his life Rodin produced many thousand “instant drawings.” He asked models to make natural energetic movements, and he would draw them at high speed without looking at his hand or paper. To ...help understand his “blind drawing” process, the authors tracked the eye and hand movements of art students while they drew blind, copying complex lines presented to them as static images. The study found that line shape was correctly reproduced, but scaling could show major deficiencies not seen in Rodin's sketches. The authors propose that Rodin's direct vision-to-motor strategy, coupled with his high expertise, allowed him to accurately depict in one sweep the entire model, without “thoughts arresting the flow of sensations.”
In 1906, Auguste Rodin created more than 150 drawings of the Cambodian Royal Ballet, a troupe brought by King Sisowath to the Colonial Exposition held in Marseille. The drawings' apparent simplicity ...belies their complex relations to colonial politics, the Cambodian dance technique, and Rodin's artistic project. Diffused through the mass media, they both habituated viewers to Rodin's controversial style and justified French domination of the Cambodian Protectorate. Though distorted by an unequal power dynamic, the drawings also allowed Sisowath to further his political goals and recorded performances now lost to history.
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