Hidden on the backs of canvases or scrawled on scraps of paper, doodles have allowed artists down the ages, from Michelangelo to Picasso, to test, explore and unleash their creativity. | arts24_sa
Rome's Villa Medici is showcasing this long-ignored facet of artistic production in a new exhibition spanning the period from the Renaissance to the present day.
On close observation, one can distinguish overlapping figures sketched onto the raw wood, one wearing a bishop's mitre and grimacing grotesquely. These"experimental, transgressive, regressive or liberating graphic gestures", as the catalogue describes them, are not subject to the rules and constraints of academic art and call to mind children's doodles.
The exhibit deliberately ignores chronology and happily mixes eras, proposing new connections between Renaissance masters from Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo to modern and contemporary artists like Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jean Dubuffet, Pablo Picasso and Cy Twombly.
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