Public Domain Image by Louis Schanker from Wikimedia Commons
McLean’s, the Canadian current affairs magazine, has an interesting article on the value of art history courses for medical students. One study showed a 38% improvement in diagnostic ability for a group of Harvard medical students who had completed an art history course.
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R Jalette posted on November 22, 2010 at 6:48 pm
Part of learning to draw is to draw what is really before you not to draw your idea of what is before you. When you first attempt to draw a person sitting in a chair you may draw them sitting straight up (even if tthe person was leaning forward) because that is your idea of how someone sits. Learning to see negative space helps see the true relationship.
Lou Siegel posted on December 21, 2010 at 11:23 pm
Schanker, as with many of his abstract contemporaries, studied the details of the human form, nature, and inanimate objects around him before depicting his interpretations of the “real” world. Go to http://www.louisschanker.info for more examples and information about Schanker and the mid twentieth century New York art scene.