RJA #10

Thesis: While artists tools such as drawing aids and projections fueled the success of the Renaissance and gave birth to "hyper realistic" painting they reduce the mark of the artist and lessen the individuality and humanity of visual art.

Arguement: One impactful quality of visual art is the pressance of the artists within the technique and formal approach to its creation. Using tools that increase the percesion of the rendering remove the personality of the art work. While able to create photolikeness, I believe that these tools reduce the empathetic impact by softening the artists hand. When working freehand expression is unavoidable even in tight renderings. Uniqueness and, what Walter Benjamin refers to as the "Aura" of visual art, is threatened by the technologies of the twenteth century.

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