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Friday, June 19, 2009
The Bargue-Gerome Drawing Course
10:20 AM | 
Posted by
Alex "Boti" Fernandez |
In the 1860's France was overrun by the poor quality work coming from all art students including those coming from the famed school Ecole des Beaux Arts, Gerome a teacher in the school was asked to create a systematic way to improve the art, he partnered with Bargue a well known lithographer to create this course. The course started as a 2 section course which was to teach students about line and tone, how to perfect the way of three dimensional form, and also to bring them back to the time when teaching classical beauty in greek and roman painting and sculpture was considered the greatest height in art. Most of the actual drawings were created by students and friends of Gerome and then were passed on to Bargue who made lithography plates of them for mass printing. The 3rd section of the drawing was created by Bargue alone for unknown reasons and was publish around the 1870's. The Course enjoyed great success being used in all ateliers and schools for about 30 years until the impressionist movement started.The course was almost lost through time until a full set of the 197 plates was discovered in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Now, thanks to the efforts of Gerald Ackerman and Graydon Parrish the plates have been published as a book and has enjoyed a renaissance. Although still relatively hard to find, it is being used to teach atelier drawing courses in Europe and the US.
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Alex,
Please join Rational Painting, my online forum.
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Graydon Parrish
The Academy of Realist Art in Toronto teaches the Bargue drawing course as part of the school's curriculum.
The director, Fernando Freitas, has just produced "The Bargue Drawing Companion DVD", which is especially useful to any serious artist wishing to copy the Bargue plates and master drawing at a serious artistic level. http://academyofrealistart.com/dvd.html
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