In celebration of the Metropolitan Museum’s encyclopedic holdings, “Take Five” is a series of posts where artists describe the lessons that any five works in the collection have taught them about their craft or life as an artist.
Life drawings, known as académies, served as a conduit for the European academic training nineteenth-century American art students craved. Pam Koob writes about their creation and significance during the Art Students League’s early history.
There is no question that plein air painting is a class of painting unto itself, and we understood early on that it can be more akin to an extreme sport than a creative activity.
As I thought about which books are most important to me and my development as an artist, it gradually dawned on me that it would not be a reading list.
As I thought about which books are most important to me and my development as an artist, it gradually dawned on me that it would not be a reading list.