Standard Textbook on Magical Painting: Introduction
Introduction
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I devoted my life to the magic of painting and I think you, my attentive and devoted students, are about to do the same in the following years. I almost sound here like my dear divination colleague and that’s not one of my aims. However, I know that the most talented and craziest of our kind have done so from the earliest of times of our being. They dedicated themselves to this extraordinary branch of wizardry and left us with magnificent masterpieces. Just look at the cave paintings that are only partly open to our today’s understanding. |
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Or dwell on the work of our contemporary artists we mostly understand only fragmentary as well.
Well, be it as it is. The importance of this part of magic must not be underestimated. What other way of communication can you imagine the greatest wizards of all times could use to speak to us even way after their death if it was not for their portraits? Their wisdom, knowledge and their life experience would be lost without their painted imprints. |
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However, every beginning is hard. That is not a new realisation I am telling you here. Therefore, I dedicate this first year of lessons to the very basic, the foundation of every graphic expression and every artistic experience – the drawing.
Yes, I can’t spare you this. It is an old wisdom that every becoming artist needs to learn to draw regardless the branch of magical art he wants to devote himself later. I as well hated this statement first in my school days. I thought it would keep me from my true vocation. However, after quite some time of lamenting and moaning – yes, I can be a really pigheaded fellow – I couldn’t but admit that my teacher and the generations before him spoke nothing but the truth. Drawing is an essential device for the development of imagination.
As drawing is foremost about representation of the human body this subject will accompany us throughout the first year. I wish all of you who are sitting here in front of me – my attentive and devoted students – a pleasant time in this room.
