Bridgman's Life Drawing through clever disguises

through clever disguises

The modern needleworker may not be quite so avid about initialing everything

These plates

altar slabs and shields

and individual details drawn with awareness of subtle evolutionary changes and millennia-long developments

Bridgman's Life Drawing through clever disguisesLife Drawing is not so much a unique system of drawing the human form as it is a new way of conceptualizing it. To draw the figure, the artist must "have an idea of what the figure to be drawn is doing" he must "sense the nature and condition of the action, or inaction." In this book, Mr. Bridgman, who for nearly 50 years lectured and taught at the Art Students League of New York, explains in non technical terms and illustrations in hundreds of finely