Sentences with phrase «classical figure study»

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His elegant paintings present a modern, quintessentially American take on the classical themes of portraiture, landscape, figure studies, marine scenes and flowers.

There he received a classical training, studying the figure closely and following a traditional curriculum.

ABOUT THE JUROR: Lauren Childs began studying classical figure drawing by the age of twelve.

The exhibition contains work from all areas of Mapplethorpe's principal aesthetic interests including; still lifes, portraits, figure studies, flowers, body fragments and classical statues.

The show will examine his understanding of form and light in the composition of formal portraits, still lifes and figurative works that celebrate the sensual quality of nature and the human body.The works relate strongly to the museum's permanent collection of fine art that includes portraits from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Dutch old master still lifes and studies of the nude and human figure, a staple of western art dating back to the classical forms of Greek sculpture.

2011 - Present Workshop Instructor, Classical Drawing, Ellensburg, WA, Taught Classical Figure Drawing, Golden Mean and Visual Gravity (Spring 2011), Sight - Sizing / Classical Alterier (Summer 2011), Portraiture and Halftones (Fall 2011), Composition Visual Gravity & Asymmetric Balance (Fall 2011) 2006 - Present Affiliate Faculty, Drawing and Painting Program, Central Washington University 2009 - Present Affiliate Faculty, Art History Program, Central Washington University 2006 - Present Workshop Instructor, Eight Week Professional Practices, Foundational Drawing and Figure Drawing Workshops, Gallery One, Ellensburg, WA 2008 - Present Private Instructor, Drawing, Painting and Professional Practices for post graduate students, Ellensburg, WA 2008 - 2009 One Year replacement, Art Education Program, Central Washington University 2004 - 2005 Affiliate Faculty Metropolitan State University, St. Paul, MN, Taught Independent Study art students, Curatorial responsibilities in art gallery and Gallery / Museum Course 2000 - 2002 Affiliate Faculty, College of Visual Arts, St. Paul, MN, Foundational Drawing Class and Senior Thesis Committee 1998 - 1999 Affiliate Faculty, University of Minnesota, Undergraduate Beginning Drawing and Beginning Painting 1996 - 1997 Teaching Graduate Fellow University of Minnesota, Sole responsibility for class organization, lectures, demonstrations, discussions, and grading for Beginning Drawing (Fall 1996, Fall 1997 and Winter 1997), Advanced Drawing (Spring 1997), and Color (Winter 1997.

Commissioned during the artist's second visit to Rome in the spring of 1781 by Prince Abbondio Rezzonico, the half - life - size work is a study in classical pose and proportion — particularly the figure's contrapposto stance.

Ethridge's take on a figure who has loomed large since he began studying the medium, highlights Mapplethorpe's focus on classical and baroque, intimate and public, and restraint and licentiousness.