The Artist's Studio
Imagine a drawing atelier as big as the Roman forum
Imagine an art drawing class using a nude marble statue as the model...
Suddenly a riot breaks out over who gets the front row easel, to draw from the statue, as is Pygmalion! Everything suddenly comes to life! The quiet classroom has suddenly erupted in chaos as students beat one another with their mahl sticks. While the model (statue) looks calmly on... "We come to bury Caesar, not to praise him!"
The assignment is to draw Pygmalion. But the students aren't feeling very Socratic today.
In Greek mythology, Pygmalion (/pɪɡˈmeɪliən/; Ancient Greek: Πυγμαλίων Pugmalíōn, gen.: Πυγμαλίωνος)
was a legendary figure of Cyprus. He is most familiar from Ovid's narrative poem Metamorphoses,
in which Pygmalion was a sculptor who fell in love with a statue he had carved.
Pygmalion Adoring His Statue by Jean Raoux, 1717. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_(mythology)
Pygmalion and Galatea : .[Spoiler (click to open)].The Origin of Sculpture
The Origin of Sculpture, or Pygmalion and Galatea-Regnault, Jean-Baptiste (1754-1829) one rendition
.The Art of Drawing And Bring To Life
dr. π (pi)
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Imagine an art drawing class using a nude marble statue as the model...
Suddenly a riot breaks out over who gets the front row easel, to draw from the statue, as is Pygmalion! Everything suddenly comes to life! The quiet classroom has suddenly erupted in chaos as students beat one another with their mahl sticks. While the model (statue) looks calmly on... "We come to bury Caesar, not to praise him!"
The assignment is to draw Pygmalion. But the students aren't feeling very Socratic today.
In Greek mythology, Pygmalion (/pɪɡˈmeɪliən/; Ancient Greek: Πυγμαλίων Pugmalíōn, gen.: Πυγμαλίωνος)
was a legendary figure of Cyprus. He is most familiar from Ovid's narrative poem Metamorphoses,
in which Pygmalion was a sculptor who fell in love with a statue he had carved.
Pygmalion Adoring His Statue by Jean Raoux, 1717. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_(mythology)
Pygmalion and Galatea : .[Spoiler (click to open)].The Origin of Sculpture
The Origin of Sculpture, or Pygmalion and Galatea-Regnault, Jean-Baptiste (1754-1829) one rendition
.The Art of Drawing And Bring To Life
dr. π (pi)
.