The artist has long found anatomy to be integral to his training. This is why, for over 2,000 years artists have trained by drawing, painting, and sculpting the nude.The first concrete accounts of specific anatomical study by an artist arose around the 15th century. Leonardo da Vinci was known to dissect corpses and make detailed drawings of his findings. However, there are some accounts of this practice being done even during the time of the ancient Greeks.
This picture is of an ecorche that I made as an anatomical study. This piece roughly follows the tradition of the ecorche which originated in the French academy in the 19th century.
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I am so bad at the links.
I used to have the simple code written down somewhere, but alas.
The point is, you might enjoy the blog of Chris Jagers. He teaches anatomy at SMU and is a huge ecorche fan. Here is the url
http://chrisjagers.net/wp/index.php?s=ecorche&searchbutton=Go%21
Thank you for your suggestion and thanks for your comment on Art Babel as well.
I am familiar with Chris's blog, we are both great fans of Frank Porcu with whom I studied at the New York Academy of Art. I was his teaching assistant and took photos of all his lectures (amazing)- that's where my ecorche came from, I made it in Frank's class. When I met Chris (only via the internet) I sent him a dozen or so pics of the lectures. I'm considering how to make all 60 or so of them available to everyone, but haven't figured out how to do that as of yet. Any ideas?
I'm sorry I didn't make the connection. I really appreciated your story? of him riding the train into town and preparing his lectures on the way, then teaching nonstop and then heading home. Beautiful.
Flickr or the Google equivalent for your pix?
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