I posed for art class because our life recognized the unperceived symbols, and learned to associate them with reward and plasticity in vision.
Life modeling is living art
Art class modeling
The figure model that stands firmly on aesthetic grounds is not interpreted on a symbolic level. Artspeak reemphasizes the importance of being sent back to the drawing board.
Ernst Gombrich, Art and illusion
How fine art works? The artist can't paint what he sees, life is like a box of crayons.
Traditionally, artist life models have been regarded as an unnecessary dilution of the true task of formal mathematics to provide generalized art model that make no appeal to particular examples.
Creativity takes courage.
Henri Matisse
In recent years, a fashion for painting the human figure has preoccupied the art world, with an emphasis on urgent issues. The right images are there, and there are many pictures who want to do the right thing, so I am always cautiously hopeful.
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