Description
NOTE: For Painting majors, elective instructor cannot be the same as studio instructor.
This life drawing course will be held on Saturdays at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Students will work on-site from the museum’s sculpture collection to create a series of long-term drawings on prepared grounds that analyze morphologies of illusion, meaning and the importance of their subject’s intent. Through a mixture of observational drawing, reading discussions and independent research, students will explore a shared emphasis on structural anatomy, the indirect development of the illusion of light, underlying abstractions of the bounded image and how these perceptual arrangements are directly influenced by the iconographic, cultural and historical structures and traditions evident with in the motif. Recognizing authored form requires the student to both subjectively and objectively address their subject beyond its illusionistic re-presentation. Homework will be a combination of individuall