Complete Bargue Drawing Course Dust Jacket Edition

The Bargue drawing course is one of the most popular classical art drawing courses in the world.
Draw from the same Bargue art plates as artistic masters like Pablo Picasso and Vincent van Gogh and thousands more artists.
Traditionally the art student would copy master drawings and then plaster casts of sculptures and monuments and then finally from life.

The Charles Bargue master drawings are a series of prints ranging from simple to more advanced drawing. Training the eye of the student to understand the effects of light and shadow, the illusion of form.

I totally support the point of view of French art teachers of the 19th century that fine art students need to study the rich traditions of the classical art.

• French schools at that time advocated the following sequence of art education:
  Drawing copies of classical art plates
  Copying drawings by the Old Masters
  Drawing classical casts – busts and figures
  Drawing live models

The 20th century brought various “isms” into art, and many art students become disillusioned with art education as it is practiced today.

Copying the Old Masters and studying their art is an important part of traditional art education. Copying classical masterpieces will develop a proper artistic taste and style. I believe that thousands of fine art students will improve greatly from such exercises.

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