Portraying the living human form; not only with anatomical accuracy; but so that it conveys motion; emotion; and vitality is one of the greatest challenges faced by the artist. In the studies in this volume; famous artist and art instructor Reginald Marsh brought his genius to bear on the complex problem of life drawing. Delving into the work of the great masters (Michelangelo; Leonardo; Raphael; Rubens; Poussin; Duuml;rer; Holbein; and others); Marsh simplified; abstracted; adapted; and reinterpreted their work into a collection of drawings both immensely interesting and instructive to the practicing artist and the student. The 209 pages of drawings in this volume show the human body in a wide variety of positions; viewed from many different angles. Marsh directs special attention to those angles; aspects; and physical positions which are the most difficult to portray. His great talent; coupled with a rare ability to instruct others (Marsh taught at the Art Students League for many years) gave him unusual sensitivity to the concerns of the artist in life drawing: his concise commentary on the drawing points up the problems addressed in each mdash; tone; movement; proportion; composition; etc.
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3 of 7 people found the following review helpful. but I did enjoy this bookBy James ClarkI am a novice student of Renaissance art ; but I did enjoy this book.I did feel the author was somewhat verbose and some of his contentions hard to grasp;but overall I thought the book was worth the money.The text was hardgoing but I got a feel for Titianand his amazing talent.