A look at the Bargue plates, a series of 197 lithographs that guide an art student through an increasingly difficult course of study.
In this passage, which we had to cut from the print article in our Spring 2009 issue of Drawing for space reasons, artist-instructor Dan Gheno explains how the tanned portions of a nude model seem to stand out and push forward, and he reiterates the value of studying individual body parts.
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