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| Fifty Figure Drawings | 
 enlarge | Creator: George B. Bridgman
Publisher: Dover Publications
Category: Book
List Price: $4.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (4 reviews)
Sales Rank: 79556
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 80
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.3 x 0.3
ISBN: 0486451208
Dewey Decimal Number: 743.4
EAN: 9780486451206
ASIN: 0486451208
Publication Date: September 22, 2006
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Product Description
Crafted in the early 20th century, these black-and-white illustrations represent a wide variety of styles of life drawing. Assembled by a prominent artist and teacher, this inspiring, invaluable collection consists of the work of leading students from the finest American art schools. Fifty drawings of undraped figures offer exquisite examples of differing styles, techniques, and artistic expressions.
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 Nice drawings October 24, 2008
It is what it says it is, a collection of nice student figure drawings done in the thirties. I have a BFA, MFA and I've been a professional illustrator for 25 years and I gained a little more insight into expressing the figure by seeing how students approached drawing problems at that time.
Recommend it to anyone interested in drawing the human form.
 fifity figure drawings October 22, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a good book for a advanced artist but for a first time artist is was a bit hard to use.
The buy of the week February 23, 2007
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
This book is $5.00 how on earth could you beat that? Buy it, study it and see how artist draw the figure from life. Its full of great art and the printing looks good.
50 figure drawings from 80 years ago January 1, 2007
17 out of 20 found this review helpful
It's satisfying to write about this little book on the first day of 2007 considering that it was first published in 1927. It's also satisfying to have this time capsule to remind one how the artistic training in the United States has evolved (Some would say devolved.) during the last century, progressing (regressing?) from an emphasis on developing skills to reproduce objective reality then on to abstract self expression then on to cultural commentary and postmodern end game play and back again to a partial return to respect for draftsmanship with the profusion of artist run ateliers promoting traditional drawing and painting skills.
This slim volume edited by noted draftsman and instructor George B. Bridgman consists of drawings done by students from the leading art schools at the beginning of the last century. Of the works Mr. Bridgman writes "The schools and the classes (from which these drawings were gleaned.) are patterned very much after the schools of Europe in a general way, but the policies vary greatly Instructors naturally have many different viewpoints, regarding artistic training and instruction. (And)...the drawings selected can be classified under three different trends of thought, the imitative, the constructive, and the expressive."
The drawings themselves do fall into different categories: 1. Basic linear gestural beginnings, to blocks in, and to complete renderings; 2. Different styles - graceful line drawings in dry and wet media, muscular drawings of line and tone, and finely nuanced tonal depictions; and 3. Varying levels of ability - masterful renderings giving a sense of light, mass, texture and movement, workmanlike renderings, and less accomplished (Whether by talent or inexperience.) drawings displaying problematic proportion, value, & line control (The worst still being superior to the best often found in today's university upper lever life drawing classes.) .
The illustrations are printed on a glossy stock. I can't say whether the reproductions were taken from the original photographic plates or whether they were scanned from the pages of the 1937 revised edition of the book and then tidied up. While these illustrations are adequate, they lack the clarity, depth, and sharpness provided by today's printing technology. But for the price, this book is well worth a look.
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