Fifty Figure Drawings (Dover Anatomy for Artists) by George B. Bridgman

By George B. Bridgman

Crafted via top scholars from the best American paintings faculties of the early 20th century, those black-and-white illustrations signify a large choice of lifestyles drawing kinds. the unique renderings—in crayon, charcoal, pencil, and ink—are fantastically reproduced right here, with devoted awareness to each shadow and nuance.
George B. Bridgman, an established teacher at New Yorks artwork scholars League and a famous instructor of determine drawing, chosen those fifty drawings as examples of differing kinds, options, and varieties of inventive expression. Bridgman intentionally declined to accompany the drawings with severe textual content, within the expectation that the illustrations may converse for themselves. Inspiring for college students and helpful for teachers, this assortment bargains a wealth of expressive chances.

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In America we have had no artistic tradition, we have borrowed only from what has been done before. The old apprentice school is in modern American way, Art School of today. The schools and the classes are patterned very much after the schools of Europe in a general way, but the policies vary greatly. Instructors naturally have many different viewpoints, regarding artistic training and instruction. A great number of Life Class instructors have had their training in European schools and have incorporated into their methods, modern European traditions.

Due somewhat to an ever changing commercial influence the manner of instruction changes continually, which, in itself, becomes a development in keeping with our needs. It will be seen in the following pages many phases and influences of draftsmanship, in some cases separate, and in others interwoven, but to the discerning eye the drawings selected can be classified under three different trends of thought, the imitative, the constructive, and the expressive. Imitative art is the basic language of pictorial writing, in writing, ideas are expressed with pictured objects representing something, seen or heard.

It must be taken into consideration that we have here a nation of many races and creeds varying greatly in ideals and tastes, material and artistic. Due somewhat to an ever changing commercial influence the manner of instruction changes continually, which, in itself, becomes a development in keeping with our needs. It will be seen in the following pages many phases and influences of draftsmanship, in some cases separate, and in others interwoven, but to the discerning eye the drawings selected can be classified under three different trends of thought, the imitative, the constructive, and the expressive.

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