~Drawing has often been marginalized, relegated to the category of preparatory medium — the means to another end. Some particularly virulent critics of drawing have framed it as a dangerous distraction from the more virtuous (and more laborious) medium of painting. Lecturing at...

~In 17th- and 18th-century France, the status of color within the prevailing discourse on art was precarious. Academician Charles Le Brun wrote in 1672: “Color depends...