Life Study and Being in Heaven: At School of Visual Arts
Posted on 22 July 2010
My entire childhood, during school, I was secretly studying people visually, how they looked, how they moved, how light and shadow defined their features, what the space around them looked like. I pretended to go along with the teacher’s agenda, but the visual rapture of the human figure was where I beamed my true focus and attention. The first day in college, art college, was the best moment of my school life. It was a studio class that would last from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., with a break for lunch. AND, we were talking about “negative space”—the art teacher was actually verbalizing aloud the exact secret I kept to myself all those years. She wanted us to explore and make art based on figures and objects and what the space between them was like. I was thrilled, I had finally arrived, I landed in my rightful place on earth. This study above was done in graduate school, in a life study session in the Chelsea area of NYC, where the School of Visual Arts buildings are located. I remember hearing the city sounds outside from this lofty studio, and I was in heaven. I was exactly where I wanted to be.
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I’m so glad you were able to have this experience — you worked so hard and deserved to be right there where you should be.
Me, too, Mom. For once, I was able to concentrate the way I was meant to!
Amazing lighting textures. Muscle tone, veins, even the pelvic bone. My fingers even spread the same as this subject when I have a hand on one hip. This is an incredible Painting. Muscles in his neck, collar bones, he looks to have just finished a workout, Perhaps
slight open mouth, maybe lips just touching, not strained though . This is an incredible painting.
I never had the time to visit the Chelsea District on my few brief visits to New York City. I regret not going there. I’ll wager that you fit in there very well, not too many do.
This is only half the painting, too (thank you so much for the positive and complimentary comment). I love to paint/draw models, they’re there to allow you to study w/o speaking or being at all distracted. It helps for when I go out and must draw people in their natural state, moving about, talking, etc.
Chelsea in NYC has become more gentrified. SVA is on 23rd Street. I had a great time.
Walking into a studio classroom has that same affect on me! Like I’ve “come home.”
Jerelle Kraus sends her warm regards! She’s on Facebook and I’ve been communicating with her.
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Jerelle got on FB around the time I did, she’s got her fab book for everyone to know about and comment on, ALL THE ART THAT’S FIT TO PRINT by Jerelle Kraus!!!