You've got to laugh at the shallow, useless attempts at life drawing by
the 'students' on The Saatchi School this week.
Andrea Kantrowitz wrote:
> How interesting--I would love to hear how it goes (if it goes) What is it
> that the coordinator hopes medical students will get out of the drawing
> experience? I know a veteran kindergarten teacher who has developed an
> observational drawing in-service program for early childhood teachers, to
> help them become more observant in their teaching practice.
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> Years ago, when I was getting my MFA at Yale University, I followed along
> behind the gross anatomy students at the medical school, drawing from the
> cadavers as they dissected them. It was a fascinating study, in which I
> learned a lot more about on a metaphysical/philosophical level about the
> human body than I bargained for.
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>
> Best
> Andrea Kantrowitz
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> On 11/27/09 7:59 AM, "Alison Craig" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> I'm interested to hear all this as I am hoping to be teaching life
>> drawing to medical students in 2010. (I say "hoping" as it's a
>> voluntary module i.e. they have to choose to take it before I can do
>> it!). The life classes will be part of a wider look at anatomy and art,
>> with options to study things like attitudes to the body in Western
>> art/culture, drawing & science etc. etc.
>> In a sense they will be looking at anatomy and drawing from the "other
>> end", in that they are supposed to know the anatomy and will be learning
>> about drawing in relation to what they can see as well as what they
>> know. The course was suggested by the co-ordinator of the Medical
>> Humanities course who is a medic, but took a year out to study art &
>> life drawing in particular and has had a long-term ambition to include
>> life drawing in the undergraduate course.
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