Drawing the Male Nude

Author: Giovanni Civardi
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1782214615
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Giovanni Civardi breaks down the complex process of drawing the male nude, from making rudimentary choices about framing, lighting and the most appropriate drawing tools, to rendering detailed and anatomically accurate artworks. Civardis own masterful drawings provide an excellent touchstone for the artist wanting to explore the depiction of the male body, and his studies of numerous poses cover all aspects of life drawing. Civardi takes a pragmatic, almost scientific, approach to teaching the subject, combining basic physics with artistic interpretation. Drawing the Male Nude also touches upon the significant anatomical differences between the male and the female form, but these are also covered in some detail in the companion to this title, Drawing the Female Nude.

Drawings of the Male Nude

Author: Don Bachardy
Publisher: Twelvetrees
ISBN: 9780942642186
Category : Male nude in art.
Languages : en
Pages : 94

Book Description

Drawing: A Complete Guide

Author: Giovanni Civardi
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1844485080
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This is an essential book for anyone learning to draw, or wishing to improve their drawing. Starting with the basics of drawing techniques, Civardi gives expert advice on drawing portraits, the clothed figure, hands and feet and scenery, finishing with a section on the importance of light and shade. Civardi's technical advice and practical tips, accompanied by his own outstanding drawings, make this an invaluable resource for any artist.

Drawing the Female Nude

Author: Giovanni Civardi
Publisher: Cassell Illustrated
ISBN: 9780289800904
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 136

Book Description
“To paint, draw, or sculpt the human figure is one of the most demanding of artistic problems.... Explores the artistic possibilities and particular problems of female bodies.”—Library Journal.

John Singer Sargent

Author: John Singer Sargent
Publisher: Universe Publishing(NY)
ISBN: 9780789302618
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 88

Book Description
Published on occasion of the major Sargent retrospective traveling to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1999, John Singer Sargent: The Male Nudes brings to light a fascinating portion of Sargent's work long hidden from the public eye. Beginning in his adolescence, and throughout his distinguished career, John Singer Sargent, the celebrated painter of patricians, produced a superbly rendered, uninhibited body of work that was rarely seen and never exhibited: the male nudes. Over the last century, these little-known works have been dispersed to museum archives and private collections throughout the United States and Great Britain. John Esten has unearthed the most extraordinary of these images, ranging from vibrant watercolors and oil paintings to charcoal studies, published here for the first time in a single volume.

The Renaissance Nude

Author: Thomas Kren
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 160606584X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 436

Book Description
A gloriously illustrated examination of the origins and development of the nude as an artistic subject in Renaissance Europe Reflecting an era when Europe looked to both the classical past and a global future, this volume explores the emergence and acceptance of the nude as an artistic subject. It engages with the numerous and complex connotations of the human body in more than 250 artworks by the greatest masters of the Renaissance. Paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, and book illustrations reveal private, sometimes shocking, preoccupations as well as surprising public beliefs—the Age of Humanism from an entirely new perspective. This book presents works by Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach, and Martin Schongauer in the north and Donatello, Raphael, and Giorgione in the south; it also introduces names that deserve to be known better. A publication this rich in scholarship could only be produced by a variety of expert scholars; the sixteen contributors are preeminent in their fields and wide-ranging in their knowledge and curiosity. The structure of the volume—essays alternating with shorter texts on individual artworks—permits studies both broad and granular. From the religious to the magical and the poetic to the erotic, encompassing male and female, infancy, youth, and old age, The Renaissance Nude examines in a profound way what it is to be human.

The Drawings of Paul Cadmus

Author: Paul Cadmus
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 152

Book Description
Illustrated volume with examples of artist's figure studies, comprised predominantly of nudes. Separate catalogue raisonne of the artists prints at the end.

Anatomy

Author: Joseph Sheppard
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486129942
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
In this superb guidebook, a master of figure drawing shows readers in precise detail how to render human anatomy convincingly. Over 460 illustrations reveal the structure of the body.

100 Artists of the Male Figure

Author: Eric Gibbons
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing Limited
ISBN: 9780764336935
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The arts, drawing, human body.

A Guide to Drawing

Author: Daniel Marcus Mendelowitz
Publisher: Holt McDougal
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 314

Book Description
One of the most respected and widely used books in its field, A GUIDE TO DRAWING is a classic, comprehensive, and systematic introduction to the art of drawing, focusing on the mastery of traditional skills as the basis for expressive drawing.