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"ARTA GRAFICA"(Easel Graphics)
That's the way I discovered it as child. That's the way I learned it in
school with all it's secrets and so many different techniques.
"Grafica" after long searches and questions it is not directly, word for word
translatable, at least not in the languages I'm familiar with. The best I could
do is to translate it as "Easel Graphics". So I can not really adapt or
translate "Grafica", as the meaning of this type of art would be "lost in
translation".
"Easel Graphics" is part of fine arts, along with painting, sculpture, ceramics etc. It
is not part of any of it even though it borrows techniques from each and every
one of them. For example "Easel Graphics" is not drawing even if it needs complex and
thorough studies of drawing. It is not painting even though it uses some
painting techniques, tools etc. And so on...
Yet, apart from some similarities, Easel Graphics techniques and tools are different.
The artist uses anything from crayons, brushes, pen and ink drawing techniques
to collages, small chisels, pins, needles, paper, metal, engraving linoleum etc.
"Easel graphics" can use from watercolors or pastels techniques to methods a
graphic illustrator would use.
I've chosen this form of art for it's many ways of expressing the same universe
of lines, textures and shapes which all together are what I call "Grafica" - my
art.
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