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Рисуването като език. Основи на обучението по рисуване
Drawing as a Language. Fundamentals of Drawing Education

Author(s): Zhanina Dubarova-Kostadinova
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Applied Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Philology, Sociology of Art, History of Art
Published by: Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий”
Keywords: drawing; visual language; visual communication; pictorial symbolism; drawing education; visual perception; composition.

Summary/Abstract: Drawing is the first known form of communication through images created by humans. The accessibility of visual symbolism increasingly enhances the importance and use of visual languages in the modern world, where the rapid and accurate transmission of information is essential in any communication. Anyone who has the skill to learn to write by hand and the desire to gain theoretical literacy regarding the rules and principles by which images related to recognizable concepts are created can master drawing as a language. Drawing functions as a language through the use of conceptual and visual elements, such as point, line, plane, and figure. These elements create a compositional whole through their characteristics, relationships to each other, and to the pictorial field. This unity carries the information conveyed by the author. Mastering drawing as a language is not necessarily linked to further development as an artist. The ability to draw and use images as a means of communication differs from artistic creation and is accessible to a much broader group of people with various talents—not necessarily related to the visual arts. But why, in a world full of ready-made solutions and increasingly easier ways to create anything, would someone want to learn to draw or even to write by hand? Why learn foreign languages? After all, artificial intelligence can create everything—any image, text, translation. The reason is that knowledge is power, knowledge is freedom that we carry within. Our knowledge and skills give us independence and the ability to be creators of our own world. The use of natural human intelligence will never be completely replaced by artificial means.

  • Issue Year: 9/2025
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 326-339
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: English, Bulgarian
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