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    Figure Drawing and Portraiture: In Pencil, Chalk and Charcoal
    Figure Drawing and Portraiture: In Pencil, Chalk and Charcoal
    Figure Drawing and Portraiture: In Pencil, Chalk and Charcoal
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    Figure Drawing and Portraiture: In Pencil, Chalk and Charcoal

    By Borough Johnson

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    From an award-winning English artist and teacher whose work was exhibited at the esteemed Paris Salon and London's Royal Academy comes a beautifully designed guide to drawing the face and figure. The author of such artistic references as "The Technique of Pencil Drawing" and "The Art of the Pencil," Borough Johnson also illustrated many famous poems and novels, including Longfellow's "Evangeline" and Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles.
    "Art cannot be taught. Drawing, like science, can." With those opening words, Borough Johnson takes a creative step forward, demonstrating how to draw the human figure with shading and texture, using pencil, chalk, and charcoal. In easy-to-follow terms, he explores the most important aspects of drawing the human form: anatomy, proportion, composition, motion, drawing from memory, and capturing emotion with an economy of line. He also offers eighty-two of his own compositions in black-and-white—subjects that include a ballerina, fencer, gypsies, violinist, children playing, and more—to illustrate his lessons. Eight color plates (red chalk drawings) are also included. Perfect for intermediate and advanced students who want to improve their skills, Figure Drawing and Portraiture is a valuable guide for every artist's reference shelf.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateMar 8, 2012
    ISBN9780486136752
    Figure Drawing and Portraiture: In Pencil, Chalk and Charcoal

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      Figure Drawing and Portraiture - Borough Johnson

      PORTRAITURE

      CHAPTER I

      Art Appreciation

      THE principles of art, in all its branches, its history, its poetry, and its technique should, in my opinion, be made a compulsory subject in the curriculum of all schools and colleges. Often too little attention is paid to the value of an art education, which enlightens the traveller in his own and in foreign lands, and opens his eyes to the beauties of the treasures of art, which the prosaic and undiscerning may pass by with but a superficial or even indifferent glance at the subject of the picture or object, heedless of the thought and knowledge expended on its creation. Those who can appreciate such beauties, who can differentiate between good and bad workmanship, or whose emotions are aroused by the poetry of art and Nature, add much to their happiness. The benefits of such an education, even if it be but superficial, cannot, indeed, be over-estimated.

      The two greatest epochs in the history of art were attained by the Greek and Italian nations in an age when culture reached its highest supremacy. During this period of classic antiquity in Greece and the so-called Renaissance in Italy, the people were educated and encouraged by the Church and the State to understand and appreciate beautiful workmanship and lovely forms in every branch of the fine arts. This phase of education is, I am afraid, very sadly neglected in this mechanical age, in which we are fated to witness the spoliation of our once beautiful country by the erection of hideous buildings, hoardings, and unlovely petrol stations, to say nothing of the construction of bleak arterial roads. It is depressing to contemplate the possible results of another generation of modern progress if such efforts as are being made to preserve those beauties that still remain with us are

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