Abstract
This pre-research study deals with the problem of fundamental relational paradigm of life drawing in contradiction to virtual experience and consumer life style. It looks into the question how to teach drawing in the time of social networks and fake news when the reality has become more and more fictional, without losing the transcendental and cognitive potential of drawing.
It inquires how the two-dimensional pictorial culture and related visual symbols and memes influence perception and ability to draw and how the problem is felt by pedagogues and students of drawing themselves. The core of the study is created by the author's past experience when working as an artist, pedagogue and curator; and from that experience also derives the used practical research method - A/r/tography.
The topic is viewed from the perspective of holistic pedagogy, image theories and contemporary art studies and it works with the conception of graphic types by Jaromír Uždil and symbolic systems by Betty Edwards. These principles of art expression also relate to a collection of drawings by dozens of respondents, which is an integral part of the study and the author gained it during several years when she was working as a teacher.
The study is a part of a doctoral research, which deals with qualitative contexts of drawings according to reality and their didactic reflections. The research is performed at the Department of Art Education at the Pedagogic Faculty of the Charles University in Prague.