(Re-)Introducing Art Anatomy
A renewed venture.
I got deeply into both figure drawing and modernist abstraction in graduate school, and have been working out the tensions ever since. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, I wrote an anatomy book. I never illustrated it, though.
I’m doing so now. To accompany that effort, I’ve started another Substack in which I’ll record the process, while offering additional commentary on the art of drawing as the muse directs me. It will be written in the form of letters to an art student who is mostly a composite literary conceit, but with some basis in reality. Please have a look at Art Anatomy and subscribe if you’re so moved.
Posting at Dissident Muse Journal will continue as previously. It just made sense to split off the art anatomy content, because there’s going to be a lot of it, and I need not subject those interested in the topic to the rest of my ponderings.
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Next titles in the Asynchronous Studio Book Club will appear shortly at the ASBC homepage.
The current exhibition in the Dissident Museum is Suddenly, A Tree Appeared: Marek Bennett, Greg Cook, Ansis Puriņš.
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