{"id":317,"date":"2015-03-16T15:51:23","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T15:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delladrees.com\/wordpress\/?p=317"},"modified":"2015-12-22T13:55:07","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T13:55:07","slug":"academie-drawing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/delladrees.com\/wordpress\/?p=317","title":{"rendered":"Acad\u00e9mie drawing"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_319\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-319\" style=\"width: 174px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/delladrees.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/0803drfive3-434x600.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[317]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-319 \" src=\"http:\/\/delladrees.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/0803drfive3-434x600-300x415.jpg\" alt=\"Pierre-Paul Prud\u2019hon\" width=\"174\" height=\"252\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-319\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pierre-Paul Prud&#8217;hon (1758\u20131823)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>An <em>acad\u00e9mie<\/em> is an observational figure study drawn from a live model over many days such as that of French artist Pierre-Paul Prud&#8217;hon, who used drawings as the foundation for his work.<br \/>\n<!--more-->The practise was established as a way to develop mastery of the human form and was a central tenant of the curriculum in classical art training in early 19th-century France, and other countries. It was an exercise required of all students at all acad\u00e9mies, hence the name. This practise came about because, before learning to paint, the student had to first demonstrate their proficiency in drawing the body. Some of the pieces on this site <a title=\"Figures\" href=\"http:\/\/delladrees.com\/wordpress\/?p=89\">(see Figures)<\/a>\u00a0are a modern response to this historic practise. The process of <em>acad\u00e9mies<\/em> has been at the heart of artistic training for groups as diverse as the Mannerist, Rococo, Neo-Classical and the Romantic artists. It can be seen as a measure of continuity that has held European art together for over 500 years.\u00a0Taking this as my path, some years ago I too set this as my primary task. That is, to reach a proficiency in drawing the figure before I started to paint the figure. It did take me some time to find a place in Europe that had an ethos that chimed with me.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-324 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/delladrees.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_3403-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3403\" width=\"236\" height=\"168\" \/>That place was the contemporary classical drawing studio in Paris of \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/studioescalier.com\" target=\"_blank\">Studio Escalier<\/a>, a\u00a0private studio art school and international arts colony in France, founded in 2001. The Paris based\u00a0drawing courses (as opposed to their painting course, which are not in Paris) take place in\u00a0the first Montmartre atelier of\u00a0Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec,\u00a0where he first met\u00a0Suzanne Valadon, and at the Louvre. The courses are designed and directed by artists for artists, and\u00a0are\u00a0dedicated to the\u00a0contemporary classical study\u00a0of drawing and painting from life. But, the teaching is\u00a0not only focussed on\u00a0drawing and painting per se, but also on\u00a0the development of enlightened creative vision, and the expression and definition of humanity through pictorial form. To find out more and read about\u00a0its artistic mission and creative vision, <a href=\"http:\/\/studioescalier.com\/students\/mission\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0click\u00a0here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An acad\u00e9mie is an observational figure study drawn from a live model over many days such as that of French artist Pierre-Paul Prud&#8217;hon, who used drawings as the foundation for his work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3,15,6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-figures","category-inspiration","category-methods-and-materials","category-museums"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/delladrees.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/delladrees.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/delladrees.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/delladrees.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/delladrees.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/delladrees.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":372,"href":"http:\/\/delladrees.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions\/372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/delladrees.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/delladrees.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/delladrees.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}