Classical painting atelier : a contemporary guide to traditional studio practice /
"Ateliers have produced many of the greatest artists of all time--and now that educational model is experiencing a renaissance. These studios, a reture to classical art trainning, are based on the nineteenth-enctury model of teaching artists by pairing them with a master artists over a perion o...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Watson-Guptill,
2008.
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| Online Access: | Table of contents only |
| Summary: | "Ateliers have produced many of the greatest artists of all time--and now that educational model is experiencing a renaissance. These studios, a reture to classical art trainning, are based on the nineteenth-enctury model of teaching artists by pairing them with a master artists over a perion of years. Students begin by copying two-dimensional works by historical masters, then working from casts of classical scupltures, and finally making still-life portrait, and figure paintings from live models" --Dust jacket flalp. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 240 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (page 239) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780823006588 (hardcover) 0823006581 (hardcover) |