From reading “The Design and the Play”, Rand makes a statement about what a student learns from creating basic design. There are variety of relationships such as harmony, order, proportion, number, measure, rhythm, symmetry, contrast, color, texture, and space are taught and make up an effective vehicle when creating basic design. What I didn’t know was what we can learn when we make designs. I enjoy creating realistic art and when I complete it, I don’t pay attention to what I’ve just learned about while sketching and then drawing. We can learn to conceptualize, to associate, to make analogies, making a bolder image to the designer’s and the viewers’ eyes. Also, I agree with what Rand is saying in the reading when he states that when we create art as students, it’s better to teach from your own perspective. Teaching from my own perspective forms the person I want to be and who I am today. It helps figure out what I have already accomplished as a student and to what challenges I need to work on in the future. If I were to learn from another perspective, it will only make the situation harder because every artist creates art differently and in their own way and technique.
“The progress of art does not lie in extending its limits, but in knowing them better.”
Braque’s statement stuck out to me the most in the reading because art has no limit. It’s specifically gaining the knowledge of what you’re going to create rather than focusing on its limitations. Rand explains in an example that a normal game has its set of rules. Simply without these rules, you have no game. In relation to progression in art, when there is no knowledge, you can’t create art.
