Drawing lessons from the great masters
This book is the ultimate manual of drawing taught by the late Robert Beverly Hale, who's famed lectures and classes at New York City's Art Student League captivated artists and art educators from around the world. Faithfully producing and methodically analyzing 100 master drawings--including works of Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Rodin, Goya, and Rembrandt among others--Hale shows how these artists tackled basic problems such as line, light and planes, mass, position and thrust, and anatomy…
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- Full title :Drawing lessons from the great masters / Robert Beverly Hale.
Summary
This book is the ultimate manual of drawing taught by the late Robert Beverly Hale, who's famed lectures and classes at New York City's Art Student League captivated artists and art educators from around the world. Faithfully producing and methodically analyzing 100 master drawings--including works of Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Rodin, Goya, and Rembrandt among others--Hale shows how these artists tackled basic problems such as line, light and planes, mass, position and thrust, and anatomy. With detailed analytical captions and diagrams, every lesson is clearly delineated and illustrated. Throughout, also, is commentary that sheds light on the creative process of drawing and offers deep insight into the unsurpassed achievements of the masters.
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- Publication Date:1989, ©1964.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Watson-Guptill Publications
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1989, ©1964.
Notes
Paperback ed.
Originally published in 1964 by Watson-Guptill.
"100 great drawings analyzed, figure drawing fundamentals defined"--Cover
The Physical Object
- Description:271 pages : : illustrations ; : 28 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0823014010, 9780823014019, 0823014002, 9780823014002
- oclc:ocm20957707
- LC Classification:NC765
- Dewey Decimal:743.4
Table of Contents
Learning to draw -- Line -- Light and planes -- Mass -- Position, thrust, or direction -- Artistic anatomy -- Driving all the horses at once.
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