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Eadweard Muybridge's Woman Walking Downstairs in The Human Figure in Motion, 1887, work which in turn inspired Marcel Duchamp. Miró created Naked Woman Climbing a Staircase during the Spanish Civil War. He was living in Paris when he started to attend life drawing classes at the school of the Grande Chaumiere.
The stroboscopic photograph A Nude Descends a Staircase by Gjon Mili (1942). The painting Ema by Gerhard Richter. The 1937 drawing Femme nue montant l'escalier by Joan Miró conserved at his foundation in Barcelona. The cover and title of Dude Descending a Staircase (2003), a music album by Apollo 440.
Figure drawing by Leonardo da Vinci. A figure drawing is a drawing of the human form in any of its various shapes and postures, using any of the drawing media. The term can also refer to the act of producing such a drawing. The degree of representation may range from highly detailed, anatomically correct renderings to loose and expressive sketches.
A figure study is a drawing or painting of the human body made in preparation for a more composed or finished work; [1] or to learn drawing and painting techniques in general and the human figure in particular. By preference, figure studies are done from a live model, but may also include the use of other references [2] and the imagination of ...
Around 400 BC a bronze figure of a girl was sculpted (Munich Museum), by an anonymous author, which presents the classical contrapposto, giving the female figure a sinuosity—especially in the arch of the hip, which in French is called déhanchement ("swinging")—that enhanced her figure and would remain as an almost archetypal model of ...
Artists may choose to "correct" perspective distortions, for example by drawing all spheres as perfect circles, or by drawing figures as if centered on the direction of view. In practice, unless the viewer observes the image from an extreme angle, like standing far to the side of a painting, the perspective normally looks more or less correct.
This is a list of female sculptors – women notable for their three-dimensional artistic work (including sound and light). Do not add entries for those without a ...
The three female figures were then cast by a model company, Gems Wax Models Ltd, who specialised in producing shop mannequins. Each figure was produced in an edition of six. [3] Jones explained that they weren't illustrations of scenes, but rather that "the figure is a device for a painting or a sculpture.