argendriel:Until a few weeks ago, I wasn’t aware that Victor Hugo was not only an author, but
argendriel:Until a few weeks ago, I wasn’t aware that Victor Hugo was not only an author, but created a lot of great drawings, too. “Once paper, pen-and-ink-well have been brought to the table, Victor Hugo sits down and without making a preliminary sketch, without any apparent preconception, sets about drawing with an extraordinarily sure hand not the landscape as a whole but any old detail. He will begin his forest with the branch of a tree, his town with a gable, his gable with a weathervane, and little by little, the entire composition will emerge from the blank paper with the precision and clarity of a photographic negative subjected to the chemical preparation that brings out the picture. That done, the draftsman will ask for a cup and will finish off his landscape with a light shower of black coffee. The result is a unexpected and powerful drawing that is often strange, always personal, and recalls the etchings of Rembrandt and Piranesi.” —Charles HugoFor more pictures and information, see:http://bittleston.com/artists/victor_hugo/http://victorhugodessin.canalblog.com/ -- source link