Dear Alan
I teach drawing at the Royal College of Art, and they have a wonderful
life drawing studio on the top floor with a stunning view of London. I
am sure I can arrange access to you for your study. It used to be a
greenhouse garden many years ago, and my old tutor, professor john
Norris wood managed it, with birds flying around inside, a great place
to draw, so I'm told. Also, my old college, Glasgow School of Art, has
fantastic life drawing rooms, designed by Charles Rennie Macintosh. He
designed very large doors so that real life elephants and other large
beasts could be brought in to draw.
Wishing you all the best with your project
Yours
Xavier Pick
On Monday, Aug 6, 2007, at 17:14 Europe/London, Carol Peace wrote:
> Dear Alan,
>
> I am in the process of setting up the Bristol Drawing School which
> will open in January 08 and would also be very interested in seeing
> your article, I have had a look for it on the web but it seems
> temporarily unavailable at the site I looked at, I will try again in
> due course but if you do know of where I could see it on the web I
> would be most grateful.
>
> Carol Peace
> Bristol Drawing School
> Unit 5.2
> Paintworks
> Bristol
> BS4 3EH
>
> www.drawingschool.org.uk
>
>
> On 6 Aug 2007, at 13:42, Alan McGowan wrote:
>
>> Thanks for your help Howard. I'd certainly be
>> interested in your article. Is it available online?
>> (or I can access it at the academic library).
>>
>> I am very interested (as an educator and as a
>> practitioner) in the varied objectives and processes
>> which have been/are utilised in life drawing,
>> including "simple" representationalism and other
>> diverse aims.
>>
>> Alan
>>
>>
>> --- Howard Riley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, Alan, (and list),
>>> Depends how far you want to go back. Pevsner's
>>> 'Academies of Art, Past and
>>> Present'(chapter 2) gets you back to the first
>>> Academies in Renaissance
>>> Italy, in which life-drawing was first used to raise
>>> the perceived social
>>> status of artists over that of the craft guilds.
>>> More recently, Goldstein's
>>> 1996 'Teaching Art: Academies and Schools from
>>> Vasari to Albers' would also
>>> be very useful to your research.
>>> We at Swansea have maintained the teaching of
>>> life-drawing, not for any
>>> outmoded attempt to maintain a discipline of
>>> academic representationalism,
>>> but because research has shown it is one of the most
>>> efficient (and
>>> economic) ways of developing in students an
>>> 'intelligence of seeing',
>>> especially when integrated with other drawing
>>> activities based upon a sound
>>> understanding of the two theoretical bases which
>>> underpin all visual art
>>> practice: those of perception theory and
>>> communication theory. Perhaps you'd
>>> like to see my article "Mapping the Domain of
>>> Drawing' in 'International
>>> Journal of Art&Design Education' Vol21 No.3
>>> pp258-272.
>>> Dr Howard Riley PhD MA(RCA)
>>> Head, School of Research & Postgraduate Studies
>>> Dynevor Centre for Arts, Design and Media
>>> Swansea Institute, University of Wales
>>> De La Beche Street
>>> Swansea SA1 3EU
>>> Wales, UK
>>>
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>>> Canolfan Gelf, Dylunio ac y Cyfryngau Dynefwr
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>>> Stryd De La Beche
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>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> From: Alan McGowan
>>> <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> Reply-To: The UK drawing research network mailing
>>> list
>>>> <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 12:24:52 +0100
>>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>>> Subject: Historical life drawing studios
>>>>
>>>> I'm trying to do a bit of research on the history
>>> of
>>>> life drawing and am interested in places/ studios
>>>> where it would have been practised and/or taught,
>>>> especially ones which are still operational. The
>>> most
>>>> obvious example would be the Royal Academy Schools
>>> in
>>>> London.
>>>>
>>>> Could anyone recommend others of historical
>>> interest
>>>> especially in Europe or North America? And does
>>> anyone
>>>> have experience of working in them?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Alan McGowan
>>>>
>>>
>>
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