Lesson Plan 3
Figure Drawing Reading
1 .What rationale for figure drawing or studying the human form can you find in this article? Drawing and studying the human figure can help students engage in a variety of topics, including identity, body, gender, race, sexuality, and beauty. It is one of the most expressive art forms, through which many important ideas can be conveyed. Students are flooded every day by images in visual culture that romanticize, glorify, and demean the human body. Studying and drawing the human form can encourage reflection, exploration, and confrontation of these issues. It also teaches important skills in the form of hand and eye discipline, and promotes originality in artists’ work. Students will be able to realize the expressive possibilities in drawing the human figure, and gain a greater appreciation for the complex issues surrounding depictions of the human form in art, advertising, and popular visual culture. Students will also become fami...
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