Anatomy, 1

 

The pictures on this page are drawings done in Professor Paul Gianfagna’s undergraduate Anatomy Course, given at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, in 1982 --1983. The first set of images were carried out using a soft graphite pencil on paper (pad, 14 X 17) and were assigned homework. Our textbook was David K. Rubins’ The Human Figure for Artists (Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books, 1979). In addition to this text, Professor Gianfagna supplied numerous photocopy sheets of detailed drawings based on his own studies. I have inserted Durer’s Mother, the haunting study by the German artist Albrecht Dürer of his ailing parent; I selected this extraordinarily moving yet objective representation when assigned to chose a head for “planing.” This section concludes with class notes. This is but one of several notebooks that attest to  the superb teaching of Paul Gianfagna.

 
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