Charles Bargue drawing course
Subtitle: with the collaboration of Jean-Léon Gérôme
By: Gerald M. Ackerman ; with the collaboration of Graydon Parrish
Contributors: Gérôme, Jean Léon, 1824-1904; Ackerman, Gerald M.; Parrish, Graydon, 1970-; Dahesh Museum of Art
Publisher: ACR Edition
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9782867702037
Subjects: Drawing; Study and teaching; Exhibitions
Other titles: Drawing course
Description: This book is a complete reprint of the fabled but rare Drawing Course (Cours de Dessin) of Charles Bargue and Jean-Léon Gérôme, published in Paris in the 1860s and 1870s. For most of the next half-century, this set of nearly 200 masterful lithographs was copied by art students worldwide before they attempted to draw from a live model. This book will be valuable to a wide range of artists, students, art historians and collectors, even as it introduces them to the hitherto-neglected master, Charles Bargue.
Notes: Accompanies an exhibition with the same name Nov. 25, 2003 - Feb. 8, 2004 at the Dahesh Museum of Art, New York.
Table of contents: title: The History of the Drawing Course. Public controversy over teaching materials ; Goupil proposes a solution ; The organization of the Drawing Course.; title: Drawing After Casts (Modèles D'après la Bosse). Practical matters: using the plates as models to copy ; The schemata or plans ; Materials ; Drawing terms ; Suggestions for coping the plates ; Values and modeling ; Procedure for modeling ; Finishing the drawing.; title: Copying Master Drawings (Modèles D'après les Maîtres). Realism, idealism, and academic drawing ; Practical matters ; On choosing a master drawing to copy: the benefits of copying ; Getting down to copying ; A note about the drawings by Hans Holbein the Younger.; title: Preparation for Drawing Académies (Exercices au Fusain pour Préparer à L'étude de L'académie D'après Nature). Ancient sculpture as the model of true beauty: the prevalence of male models ; Practical matters: copying the drawings ; Some notes on Bargue's style ; A repertoire of traditional poses.; title: Charles Bargue, the Artist. Bargue's early career ; From craftsman to artist: Bargue's early development ; Bargue and Goupil & Cie ; Goupil's reductions ; The Drawing Course ; Bargue's work during the 1870s ; A possible voyage to the Near East: Bargue's first orientalist paintings ; A Rococo theme: The Artist and His Model of 1874 ; Compositional experiments ; The Artist and His Model of 1878 ; Mosque scenes ; A Bashi-Bazouk and some Albanians ; Bargue's final five years, 1878-83 ; Two chess games ; Bargue's death; title: A Preliminary Catalogue of Bargue's Paintings; title: Drawings by Bargue Reproduced in this Study; title: The Goupil Brochure: On Models for Drawing Classes; title: The Sight-Size Technique. An experienced artist and teacher defines the sight-size technique ; Using sight-size to copy the Bargue plates ; How old is the technique? ; Necessay conditions for sight-size practice ; Excursus: shadow boxes ; Drawing after a cast: positioning the drawing ; Drawing after a cast: measuring apparent distances ; Drawing after flat models: Bargue's plates ; Pros and cons concerning the sight-size technique: a dialogue; title: A 1926 Article on Bargue's Drawings (in facsimile)