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    CAST Drawing

    Oct 30, 2020 4 minutes

    My first experience of walking into the Cast Halls of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) in Philadelphia as a student was accompanied by the feeling that I had walked into the Renaissance. Though I had yet to understand the uses of that fine collection of early plaster casts, I felt as if I was in a space that encouraged reason, reflection and hope as a young artist.

    As the first academy of art in the United States, conceived of as early as the 1790s and chartered in 1805, the drawing curriculum at PAFA incorporates the concepts and tools of cast drawing as part of a solid grounding for the artist to this day. The founders’ first act was to purchase fine casts from Paris and Florence

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