Figure Drawing

Saturday, April 11, 2009

Felix-Henri Giacomotti - Ecole Des Beaux-Arts - Figure Paintings

L'enlèvement d'Amymoné (The abduction of Amymone)

Elegante Italienne se coiffant

Fille de paysans (Peasant Girl)

Felix-Henri Giacomotti entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris at 18 in the workshop of Francois-Edouard Picot. Italian by descent, he took French citizenship in 1849, giving him the right to compete for the Prix de Rome. In 1851 he won second place and took the prize in 1854 with Abraham Washing the Feet of the Three Angels.

The print Mirage is from he publication Gil Blas September 11, 1896.

Biography at latribunedelart.com.

Another biographical site: Félix-Henri GIACOMOTTI
(Quingey 1828-Besançon 1909)

Peintre académique français, vainqueur du grand prix de Rome en 1854 et excellent portraitiste, Giacomotti est aujourd’hui méconnu du grand public.
Suite à mon mémoire d’Histoire de l’Art consacré à cet artiste, je vous propose par le biais d’Internet de découvrir ce personnage et surtout sa peinture.

Probably Francois-Edouard Picot's most famous painting, Cupid fleeing the sleeping Psyche.

Books related to Felix-Henri Giacomotti, Francois-Edouard Picot and the French Romantics at Amazon.com:

Notice des Peintures, Sculptures

Musee d'Orsay: Art & Architecture

The Orient in Western Art

Exposed: The Victorian Nude

The French Romantics: Literature and the Visual Arts 18001840

Related Post- Academic Drawings.

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Famous Artists Course - Life Drawing

The Famous Artists School Course -Step by Step method of drawing the human figure is at Amazon.com:

How to Draw the Human Figure (Famous Artists School: Step-By-Step Method)

An updated edition of the course is about to be published. Go to famousartistsschool.com to learn more.

You can still buy old copies at Amazon.com and sign up for lessons at famousartistsschool.com.

Old copies at Amazon.com

Famous Artists Course Lessons 1 - 24

Famous Artists Course 1-8

How to Draw the Human Figure: Famous Artists School, Step-by-Step Method (Famous Artists School : Step-By-Step Method)

Famous Artists Painting Course Lesson 6 Human Form

Famous Artists Painting Course (3 volume set)

Famous Artist Course

Famous Artists Course Lessons 1 - 24

This page previously listed a link to a download of some of the Famous Artist Course material which turns out to be still under copyright so that link is no longer available. But the material is still great so watch for the updated publication of the course.

Drawn to Life: 20 Golden Years of Disney Master Classes

Just published a two volume illustrated collection of the lectures of fabled Disney animator Walt Stanchfield.

Drawn to Life: 20 Golden Years of Disney Master Classes, Volume 1: The Walt Stanchfield Lectures

Drawn to Life: 20 Golden Years of Disney Master Classes, Volume 2: The Walt Stanchfield Lectures

Here's a link to a post by Hans Bacher who took Walt Stanchfield's classes.

Sunday, April 5, 2009

Figure Painting by Gerald Leslie Brockhurst

Gerald Leslie Brockhurst studied at the Birmingham School of Art and then the Royal Academy Schools in London. He traveled to and studied in Paris and Italy and held his first major exhibition in 1919. He specialized in executing etchings during the 1920s and returned to painting in 1930 executing many portraits of well known and fashionable patrons.

Adolescence. (Kathleen Nancy Woodward). 1932. Etching.

Catalog of works at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

Biography on the Modernist Journals Project.

Another figure drawing at the Cleveland Museum.

Price Tower Arts Center presents Fair Dreams: The Art of Gerald Leslie Brockhurst.

Liverpool Museum Jeunesse Doree.

Gerald L. Brockhurst (1890-1978), A Retrospective from the William P. Brumfield Memorial Collection.

TIME Magazine story from 1939. "Artist Brockhurst's portraits have the bloom and precise brushwork of the Umbrian school of Italian painters. The figures are serene, meticulously painted against quiet-colored Tuscan landscapes of rolling hills, flowing water, umbrella pines. But posterity is in no danger of mistaking the nationality of his subjects. Brock-hurst's Americans are American, his English sitters unmistakably English. Suavest of his U. S. portraits is that of Mrs. Paul Mellon, the Vassar graduate and divorcee whom Banker Andrew's only son married in 1935."