![]() ![]() THOMPSON: Have you ever worked from photos? Working from nature teaches you to synthesize. GIRAUD: Yes, you lose the perspective there are so many details to transcribe that you get lost within the billions of pieces of information. THOMPSON: It has a tendency to flatten out… It’s true: you can be very adept at drawing from photographs, and yet completely lose the scope, the dimension of the original… He said that one could work from photographs in a pinch, but the work wouldn’t have the same intrinsic quality. Of course, I didn’t do it enough, and when I met Gillain, that’s what he told me. ![]() My teachers were of the old school: they insisted that in order to transcribe reality with any degree of freshness or personality, the eye had to be confronted with the three-dimensional image. It’s very dangerous to work only second-hand - referring only to other artists, that is. I began as a self-taught artist, copying other artists then, luckily, I entered an art school, which freed up my hand and opened my eyes to a degree. THOMPSON: You attended art school, right? ![]()
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