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...
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Imagine an art drawing class using a nude marble statue as the model...
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There weren't too many naked Roman General or Emporer statues. Why is Pompey naked? I was in a life drawing class and the model refused to cover any part of his body with a drape. Maybe Pompey was like that too.
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maybe it is so..
i once modeled for awhile
it was good money for a poor art student
they said i looked like balzac https://pigshitpoet.livejournal.com/9305608.html
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Balzac by Rodin
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under the cut
https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/pigshitpoet/11381739/2835891/2835891_800.jpg
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I must warn you, the internet is full of bullshit. I'm surprised the Rodin Museum would have something so stupid.
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ha-hah!
well, that's like an 8 year old trying to figure out the meaning of sex. and from the museum itself. what does it say about who is running that show? thanks for pointing that out
and i never thought that about rodin, until seeing the statues on the internet now for the first time.
i only knew of the one in the robe. shows you how naive i can be sometimes
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I have a great story for you about Rodin's Balzac statue:
"In 1891, the writer Emile Zola became president of the French literary body, Société des Gens des Lettres, and appointed 50-year-old Rodin to create a monument to the late novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac.
“Balzac had been dead for forty years and he and Rodin had never met.”
Moreover, Rodin couldn’t simply fashion a bold, muscled likeness of the writer, since “the giant of French literature had been a short tubby man, ungainly in appearance and by his last years physically ravaged from the effects of overwork.”
Nevertheless, Rodin sought to capture the late writer’s likeness. He studied photographs and portraits of the man, and even travelled to Touraine in central France where Balzac had been born, to examine the body types common in that area.
The more he looked, the more problems emerged. “The awkwardly protruding stomach,” Mayo Roos explains, “would be hard to conceal if the figure were dressed in contemporary garb.”
He made several studies (the naked ones) and ( ... )
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what a surprise
you've really put this into perspective for me
i never knew that much about it
it was more a curiosity
but now, who knows what it may inspire in me
and i'll have you to thank for that
thank you
regards
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look what i found !!
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/31565/31565-h/31565-h.htm
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Let's leave Balzac for the French. By tthe time I finish a sentence, I forget how it started,
Rather, let's talk about this rendering of Balzac's hairy chect.
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if nude studies of clothed figures are to understand how fabric should disclose the contours of the underlying body,
then what of hairy bodies?
quite animalistic methinks!
does hair disclose the disposition of the underlying figure?
rather well styled in french coiffure
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