St. Augustine's Confessions

The part that interested me the most is the seventeenth entry that concentrates on the relativity of parts to their whole. Richard Mattsson for the past four (close to five) weeks has been my figure drawing teacher and I second his declaration that the class in fact seems more like a situational drawing class because the model only constitutes for a part of the whole of our drawings. Giving to much precedence to the figure alone, Mattsson warned us, would inevitably result in an incomplete documentation of what we have directly observed. The environment around the figure is just as important as the figure itself because the environment supports the mass of the figure and grounds it in space. Thus these parts I am depicting ought to be developed simultaneously so as to do justice to the whole of the drawing and retain a sence of unitfy and uniformity. The addition of information that has no overall effect on the whole drawing should be disregarded as superfluous and something like a smoke screen for greater problems negelected in the drawing. The mojority of the rest of the time St. Augustine just sounded like he was groveling pitifully. A little melodramatic for my taste.