Her presence was noticed. The drawing class of 14 sought out the unfamiliar face and knew why she was there. They had been told by the instructor that tonight's class would involve figure drawing.
With a few instructions, the students each stood ready at their easels, charcoal in hand. The young woman stood in the center of the room and dropped her robe.
Because the instructor had been drilling the class about form, shape, line, movement, the class looked at the nude model as just another object--no different than the many arrangements of still life they had drawn all semester.
It was a moment that the instructor had hoped for. This group of raw artists began the year with little knowledge of how to put form on paper, and now they are given the task to draw the purest of forms--the human body.
All for the sake of art.
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- linda
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2 comments:
This is good Linda!
I wondered when the nude figure drawing started at Washburn. Thinking about yearbook stories/photo opportunities of course.
That's very interesting. I had no idea they did that at Washburn. A yearbook photo of that would be pretty hilarious.
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