Dear Alan,
I raise my glass to your conclusion!
Cheers,
Eduardo Corte-Real
Alan McGowan escreveu:
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> Dear All
>
> I have just finished teaching a short course in anatomy for artists at
> the Bristol School of Drawing, which went very well, and is the second
> time I've delivered this course down there.
>
> What I find interesting is that there is a great enthusiasm coming
> from students, both young and old, to learn about life drawing
> techniques and anatomy and that they neither consider these subjects
> to be "old fashioned" nor "academic" as has been the conventional
> wisdom of art schools over the past twenty years.
>
> What is noticeable is that students rather than tutors are driving
> forward an interest in these subjects and that they are not considered
> to be inimicable to other developments (such as video art, web art) in
> art practice; that is that young people are responding to a desire to
> access certain modes of understanding, observation and recording
> regardless of whether these modes are considered "traditional" or not
> (or /were/ by their predecessors).
>
> It re-affirms my belief that life drawing, close observational
> drawing, knowledge of line, tone and anatomy is a living, vital mode
> of encounter and not "owned" by any one group, academic, traditional
> or otherwise.
>
> Alan McGowan
>
> www.alanmcgowan.com <http://www.alanmcgowan.com>
> Visiting Lecturer; Bristol School of Drawing; Edinburgh College of Art
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