Principles of Figure Drawing by Alexander Dobkin

Author:Alexander Dobkin
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780486139814
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2012-10-12T04:00:00+00:00

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At this point a few words can be added concerning the controversy about whether an artist should or should not use a model. Too great a dependence upon a model may lead to a stifling of the imagination. In more ambitious compositions, dependence upon the model may become a handicap. When figure compositions become complicated and design in space important, if one cannot take liberties and depend a good deal upon the imagination, the work will tend to lack scope and vigor.

On the other hand, the artist who refuses to look at reality will sooner or later begin to formalize, for no mind can invent as many variations as nature itself. In time his figures may lose vitality by becoming repetitive and too simple in structure. The answer to the problem lies in the historical fact that the greatest artists never fell into the habit of drawing always with or always without a model. They were generally masters of drawing with or without a posing figure before them. They had a great knowledge of life, they never stopped studying it, and were never lost with only a pencil and paper before them.

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