Human figure drawing
I posed for art class because our life recognized the unperceived symbols, and learned to associate them with reward and plasticity in vision.
Life modeling is living art
I posed for art class because our life recognized the unperceived symbols, and learned to associate them with reward and plasticity in vision.
Life modeling is living art
The figure model that stands firmly on aesthetic grounds is not interpreted on a symbolic level. Artspeak reemphasizes the importance of being sent back to the drawing board.
"The artist can't paint what he sees"
Ernst Gombrich, Art and illusion
Traditionally, figure models have been regarded as an unnecessary dilution of the true task of formal mathematics — to provide generalized proofs that make no appeal to particular examples.