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Indepth Arts News:
"Call to Artists: Step into Leonardo's Shoes...Draw Human Anatomical Specimens at this 5-day Intensive Workshop"
2002-01-21 until 2002-01-24
University of New South Wales, School of Anatomy
Sydney, NS,
AU Australia
The Department of Anatomy at The University of New South Wales (Sydney) is providing a rare opportunity for the public to draw and sketch from anatomical specimens. Only staff and students studying anatomy normally have access to these specimens, which are human body parts that have been professionally dissected; they are the embalmed remains of people who have generously donated their bodies to the University for study.
Personalized teaching
is provided for all levels in a
non-competitive atmosphere with a
limit of 18 participants. The
workshops are open to anyone
under 100!
The workshops fill a gap in art
education. Science and art meet
under the guidance of artist Susan
Dorothea White and anatomist Dr.
Brian Freeman, both experts in their
field. Participants step into the
shoes of Leonardo da Vinci, to study
and draw muscles, tendons, fascia,
joints, and bones. By studying
what's under the skin, participants
improve their skills in rendering the
human form and learn to eliminate
those arbitrary lines acquired in life
drawing classes.
Drawing takes place in a quiet,
well-lit Anatomy Laboratory during
hourly periods, with four sessions
per day. These are interspersed with
illustrated talks held in a conference
room. Human development,
movement and expression are
covered, in addition to basic
anatomy. The figure in art history is
discussed, with reference to the work
of different artists from diverse
cultures, from Leonardo himself, to
Rodin, Alice Neel, and Hokusai
(regarded as the Leonardo of the
East). Art topics also include drawing
techniques, perspective, proportion,
and the golden section.
Comprehensive course notes with
diagrams and drawings are
provided.
The workshops are proving popular
among professional artists,
sculptors, and heads of college art
departments. They have also
attracted art students and beginners
in drawing, as well as a cosmetic
surgeon, a landscape architect, a
potter, a jeweller, a physicist, and a
writer. Participants have come from
near and far, from Sydney and
country NSW, from interstate, and a
jeweller travelled from The
Netherlands to attend an intensive
5-day summer workshop held in
February 2001.
IMAGE:
Susan Dorothea White
Half torso with abducted arm, posterior view.
Pen, 2001, 30 x 42 cm.
copyright of the artist
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