Project #2
:: Developed gesture / skeletal drawings (10% of final grade)
:: Developed gesture / skeletal drawings (10% of final grade)
Take drawings from class and redraw them interacting on the same page with skeletal figures. Consider composition, consider media, consider audience. Complete on drawing paper, minimum edge 18".
Do some research for further information and place the evidence in your sketchbook.
More information in the URL links below >
inspiration:: Danse Macabre, Memento Mori, medical illustrations, anatomical studies and more...
" Memento mori has been an important part of aesthetic disciplines as a means of perfecting the character by cultivating detachment and other virtues, and by turning the attention towards the immortality of the soul and the afterlife."
>> Who am I? And, where I am going?
Do some research for further information and place the evidence in your sketchbook.
More information in the URL links below >
inspiration:: Danse Macabre, Memento Mori, medical illustrations, anatomical studies and more...
" Memento mori has been an important part of aesthetic disciplines as a means of perfecting the character by cultivating detachment and other virtues, and by turning the attention towards the immortality of the soul and the afterlife."
>> Who am I? And, where I am going?
Tabulae anatomicae (1741, published) by Pietro da Cortona (b.1596 - d.1669)
Tabulae anatomicae, Pregnant Woman
"Tabulae Anatomicae, Plate 19," by Pietro da Cortona and Gaetano Petrioli (1741 publishing date).
Andreas Vesalius (b.1564 Belgium - d.1664 Greece), "De Humani Corporis Fabrica" (1543).
Pietro Berrettini da Cortona may have been guilty of painting too many of them, but when it came to the human body, he certainly knew it from the inside out.
Andreas Vesalius, Anatomy, Medical Illustration (after Cortona)
.A dancing skeleton his spine, ribs and hip, while other bones float in the air. Cropped from Pietro Berrettini da Cortona, Tabulae anatomicae, (published in Rome, 1741), engraving
Dancing Death, Southern Germany, 18th century, ivory, H. 13 cm.
Leonardo da Vinci, Vitruvianske Mannen (or Venturian Man), 1492
Leonardo da Vinci, Human Body Anatomy, from the sketchbooks
Hans Holbein the Younger (1497-1543 German), The Noble Lady from Dance of Death, engraving
Hans Holbein Death of the Miser
Istvan Orosz, Skull, etching (b.1951 Hungary)
Edvard Munch (1863-1944 Norwegian)
Egon Schiele (1890 - 1918, Austrian) Death and the Maiden, 1915
Egon Schiele (1890–1918) Dancer, 1913
Egon Schiele Danse Macabra
Egon Schiele, Self Portrait The Radical Nude c.1917
EgonSchiele, Male Lower Torso
Francisco Goya (1746 Spain - 1828 France)
George Grosz (1893-1959 German), Pimps of Death (1919)
George Grosz, Eclipse of the Sun, 1926
Otto Dix (1891-1969 German), Dance of Death, 1917, Dead-Man's Hill
Dance of Death war etchings by Percy Smith (1880 - 1945 England)
Illustration from The Book Thief
by Kurt Vonnegut
Dancing with Death
You Nourish Yourself with Everything You Hate . Tate . UK
18th C. Medical Illustrations
