Figure drawing Essays

  • Art Assessment Case Study

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    Art Assessment Sometimes children have difficulty expressing worries and concerns, through words and verbal communication. For therapist working with children, it can be helpful to work with the child through drawing and artwork. Art assessments can be useful in helping to facilitate understanding and discussion of the stress the child is facing in a way that is less intimidating to the child. Below is the background information, summary of scoring, summary of interview and recommondations of a art

  • What Is The American Teaching Style?

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    He thought the free drawing might help us warm up our brain and prepare. My brain got stuck when I saw the words “free drawing,” “free writing,” and “free reading.” I had no idea what the teacher wanted me to draw. Thus, I went to ask the teacher what he wanted me to draw. When I was standing up and walking through the classroom, I saw that everyone was drawing, and no one had any trouble. It made me feel awkward because I was the only one who had no idea about free drawing. Therefore, I asked my

  • Research Findings of Both the Benefits and Limitations of DAP Testing

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    Children’s Human Figure Drawing created by Florence Goodenough, it’s limitations, and it’s current form of function as DAP testing of today. DAP is typically used to identify cognitive strengths and limitations among primary aged youth through the evaluation of the drawn human figure. However, there is some evidence that suggests DAP could be of therapeutic benefit in other areas of function. Florence Goodenough first published findings in 1926 that revealed children’s drawings of a man can be correlated

  • Human Figure Drawing: Form Of Visual Art

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    INTRODUCTION: Drawing, a form of visual art and a non-verbal mode of expression, is one of the oldest forms of human expression with evidence for its existence preceding that of written communication. It is believed that drawing was used as a specialized form of communication before the invention of the written language, demonstrated by the production of cave and rock paintings created by Homo sapiens around 30,000 years ago. These drawings depicted objects and abstract concepts. The sketches and

  • Michelangelo's Cleopatra

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    The Woman Behind Cleopatra, by William E. Wallace, is an article about Michelangelo’s famous Cleopatra drawing. The article also looks at the drawing on the reverse side that is called grotesque by many; why the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston included it in an exhibition of the masters, and Michelangelo’s relationship with Tommaso de’ Cavalieri. Wallace is a Professor of Art History at Washington University in Saint Louis and the author of the book, Michelangelo: The Artist, the Man, and His Times

  • Lucian Freud

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    Lucian Freud Freud, Lucian (1922- ). German-born British painter. He was born in Berlin, a grandson of Sigmund Freud, came to England with his parents in 1931, and acquired British nationality in 1939. His earliest love was drawing, and he began to work full time as an artist after being invalided out of the Merchant Navy in 1942. In 1951 his Interior at Paddington (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool) won a prize at the Festival of Britain, and since then he has built up a formidable reputation

  • Child-Participatory Methods

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    and verbal language. In contrast, qualitative participatory methods such as drawings, timelines, vignettes and narratives encourage children to freely express their emotions, feelings and ideas. Thus, through self-participatory methods children’s needs could be understood better, quality of care can be reoriented and further improved. In the past, few authors have assessed children’s anxiety, fear and behavior using drawings and narratives.1, 2-4 Pond, in 1968, found stories concerned with pain, blood

  • What Are The Similarities Between Edgar Degas And Mary Edmonia Lewis

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    Degas was a France man known for his fine art of drawing and sculptures. Mary Edmonia Lewis was a female who became the first black American woman to gain the fame in the work of sculptures and paintings .her work was known to incorporating themed relating to Negroes and the original Americans. Both artists were well equipped with the resources necessary to run the work. They did not do carving and shaping alone but they also did painting, drawing and shaping so that their work

  • Peter Paul Rubens Influence On Baroque Art

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    changes in the history of art have occurred with religious values and related to royal blood. The artistic genius of Peter Paul Rubens has impacted the development of the Baroque art. The prolific works from Rubens included many paintings, prints, and drawings. Thus, made Rubens one of the greatest Flemish artists during the seventeenth century. And they were very known to the Catholic church and the royal influences around Europe. But most of the time of his artistic career, he painted for his own pleasure

  • An Essay On Albrecht Durer

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    Dürer (1471 - 1528) was born May 21, 1471 in the city of Nuremberg, Germany. At the age of twelve Dürer became an apprentice of his father’s, a master goldsmith. Not only did he learn to shape the metal, but he also honed his skills of design and drawing. Dürer had drawn his first self-portrait at thirteen simply from his reflection in the mirror. In 1486, at age fifteen, Dürer decided to switch professions, becoming the apprentice for the town’s principle and most successful painter Michael Wolgemut

  • Sketch Artists

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    Ever since the beginning of time, drawing has been used as both a recreational activity and a way to “record” a beautiful piece of scenery. But over the past 100 years, it has evolved into something that is used almost on a daily basis. When most people think of drawing, they think of cartoons such as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. But what they don’t realize is that some sketches are actually very helpful in criminal cases. Some cases have actually been solved because of this key factor. When a crime

  • Art Personal Statement

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    self esteem at the time wasn't even there. December 2014 I rediscovered my love for art when I had got to the emergency room after cutting my leg a little too deep. After that I spend hours practicing my art skills, drawing, painting, eventually graphic design. I have grown up drawing this little monsters I had created. I would draw one like and base my monster based of that. My best friend and I would come up with thing that would end up looking really cool. As time went on we started to make more

  • Life Drawing Fashion Croquis

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    This quarter of Life Drawing was my first real experience drawing the body from life or otherwise besides drawing fashion croquis. To say that any previous attempts to draw the body were unsuccessful would be a major understatement, so I was both excited for and dreading this class. During the first several weeks, I doubted that I would be able to even complete any of the projects- with or without time restrictions- and certainly not complete them to the standard that I am used to producing. Both

  • Research Paper On Karl Kopinski

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    The Expressive Portraits and Paintings by Karl Kopinski When he was but a boy, Karl Kopinski would enjoy drawing and sketching with his brother. His parents encouraged the boy’s inclination, who kept doing what he loved doing. With time, and a lot of work, Karl turned into a mature artist, able today to create touching and eloquent pieces of art. Practice a lot, greet criticism, work on your weaknesses, be confident but realistic; K. Kopinski Feeling Lucky to Be a Full-Time Artist IMG-ARTIST

  • Walter Oltmann Drawing

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    The Oxford Dictionary defines drawing as to, “produce (a picture or diagram) by making lines and marks on paper with a pencil, pen, etc.” The boundaries of this traditional definition of drawing, however have begun to be pushed by conceptual artists who look rather to see drawing in the way that Henri Matisse did, as: “the precision of thought,” thus expanding the definition of drawing to encompass unconventional drawings that may be three-dimensional or created on surfaces other than paper with

  • My Life Lesson Learned The Hard Way

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    its way back in the past thinking of the school policy. Telling me what not to do, increased my ignorance to do the inevitable. How dare the school policy tell me what to do, “No threatening of school members or staff.” I started drawing a gun. No, I started drawing a pistol. The exact pistol from the movies I watched called, “Terminator.” I then drew a bullet coming out of the pistol. This was called a projectile. Though I did make the bullet in a form called a parabola. A parabola is a projectile

  • My Memories Of Another World

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    Period 1 1 November 2013 Another World Most of my childhood is a blur. Nothing but faceless people and blurred figures haunt my memories of the long gone past. Despite the confusing blurriness or my memories, there is one moment in time that remains clear even as days and years pass by. As a child, I remember having no sense of goals, motives, or inspirations for

  • How To Paint On Walls

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    finished wall with clear acrylic varnish for protection. This is far less intrusive than velvet ropes to separate the public from the artist’s latest masterpiece, and allows for occasional cleaning. Silhouettes Or Stylized Shapes Chalk is a great drawing medium for walls. Not only is it readily accessible, it is inexpensive, erases easily and comes in many colors. Use chal... ... middle of paper ... ...his design on the wall. At this point, the artist will begin painting much as he would on a

  • The Weakness of Buck's House-Tree-Person (H-T-P) Assessment Test

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    utilizes drawing a House a Tree and a Person. First the objects are drawn with pencil (achromatic) and then the same objects are drawn using color (chromatic). The drawings are free-hand without a use of examples such as magazines or models. The H-T-P was designed as a two-phased approach to assess personality. In phase one the subject is non-verbal, creative and unstructured, the second phase is verbal, structured and the client can define, describe and interpret the objects in the drawings. According

  • Guernica By Pablo Picasso

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    it symbolizes as a sign of defeat. However if you look very closely, there is a flower that was drawn very lightly above the sword, almost unnoticeable. I thought this was an interesting feature of the painting that Picasso added since most of the drawings represented either chaos, despair, or pain but this tiny little flower above the soldier’s severed arm is a subtle symbol of hope. Although the flower is very faint, it is very significant and symbolizes the possibility that there is hope in the