Advocating life drawing at art school is a deeply conservative and reactionary position. Arguments in favour of life drawing usually fall into one of two camps (or sometimes both). I am utterly unconvinced by both. The first, and weaker, argument contends

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nginx that it is necessary to learn the rules before you can break them. This is an authoritarian position

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Introduction Since its beginning, and until very recently, Fine Art education has been evolutionary. Received wisdom that the modus operandi of teaching

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nginx art were static until being gradually upset in the decades after 1945 is an exaggeration. The

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objective to produce basic competence in practical skills in painting and sculpture was indeed a constant ambition, but the methods by which […]

Although I no longer live permanently in Britain,

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I have been fascinated to

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nginx learn about the apparent stir caused there recently by this worthy and unusual little book. The feelings of indignation and outrage which underwrite it are understandable. Yet even the fiercest cultural arguments seldom seem to stir much in the way of violent emotions in Britain. By custom […]

AND I SAY TO MYSELF Remain alert to the possibilities, eyes up instead of down, looking about instead of transfixed by

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nginx a small screen, and daily life will furnish marvels, often in unexpected places. Exploring the streets and free institutions of a city like London is a journey through natural and man-made masterpieces, ingenuity everywhere apparent. To stand any

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chance […]