With the formation of the Academies in Europe, figure drawing became the most important part of the course, and it is only during the present century, with its completely new values in art, that figure drawing in the old academic sense has waned anatomy and perspective are touched on only very lightly. Believing that man was the noblest of creatures they strove to seek the formula for the perfect form. The ancient Greek artists and their Renaissance successors realized this. The human figure is a complex machine, a super machine, and like most machines is a thing of great beauty. 33)-it is merely a different interpretation. 70) draws in line only, the drawing is not unfinished because it lacks the light and shade of Seurat (fig. Drawing and painting the figure is not merely an exercise in copying photographically, it is rather a re-creation of the form seen a selection, made by the artist, of some features of the original. This book cannot teach you to draw the nude figure. Nothing is denied to well-directed labour: nothing is to be obtained without it.’ SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS-Discourse II on Art. If you have great talents, industry will improve them if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency. ‘You must have no dependence on your own genius. Title Page Acknowledgments Copyright Page Epigraph Introduction General drawing The anatomy of the figure The head Accessories Conclusion Notes on the illustrations Bibliography Index NC760.04 2004 743.4-dc22 2003064611 Manufactured in the United States of America Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y 11501 Includes bibliographical references and index. Originally published: New York: Viking Press, 1972. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Oliver, Charles, 1911Anatomy and perspective: the fundamentals of figure drawing / Charles Oliver. Bibliographical Note This Dover edition, first published in 2004, is an unabridged republication of the edition published by The Viking Press, Inc., New York, 1972. 88, 89, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.Ĭopyright © 1972 by Charles W. 70, Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A. 6 1 and 62 are reproduced by courtesy of the Trustees, The National Gallery, London. Acknowledgments are due to the following: Fig.
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