Reinterpret whith Estrus. Creativity and science in the drawing workshops of the degree course in communication design

Abstract

The abstract should summarize the contents of the paper in short terms, i.e. 150–250 words. The concept of design understood as a precise artistic genre distinguished from others by difference in instrumentation and results, is very old. It has assumed a clear configuration already at the time of Plinio il Vecchio who says that painting would be born from this first phase of representation. In his thought the drawing corresponded to a form of primitive expression, historically prior to painting and differentiated from it by a greater descriptive poverty, which derives from the use of simpler technical means. Drawing, in the most ancient ages, was not considered an expressive category, but a fact of a “technical” nature, a form of language imposed by the tools available. Only later did design become a fundamental aspect of art and know the concepts allows to face painting, sculpture and architecture. In the course of “Drawing Tools and Techniques” within the Design Laboratory of the degree course in Communication Design the autonomous design is realized with the redesign and reinterpretation, through different graphic techniques, of a work of art. The observation, the study and the redesign of an artistic work, abstract or figurative, is a traditional academic exercise that constitutes an important field of application of the science of representation in general and its geometric foundations in particular. Drawing is not the purpose of art, but it is its primary and essential instrument, it is not a means, but an end to art itself. Because drawing is capable of speaking not only to the eyes, but also to the spirit, to interiority.