Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni's father sent him for formal schooling, but Michelangelo preferred copying paintings in churches. He later befriended arts and studied with some of the excellent painter and sculptors of his time. But he believed that he could find out a lot more by copying the masters.
In museums about the globe, you can see artists producing copies paintings. In Louvre in Paris, you can see a stream of artists copying their terrific paintings. Copying masterpieces has been a cornerstone of standard art education for a lengthy time. In reality, one art course you can take at The New York Academy of Art in New York City, NY, USA consists of students walking a couple of blocks to The Metropolitan Museum of Art (MMA) and copying paintings. That is the course!
I have completed copies of paintings at MMA New York City of oil paintings by Theodore Gericault (French Romantic Painter, 1791-1824) and Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez (Spanish Baroque Era Painter, 1599 - 1660).
Artists at MMA who want to make copies make a request to MMA's Education Division. The Museum enables artists to get exclusive use for a month to one space or gallery in the museum to do a copy of a certain painting. The public nonetheless has access, but only one artist is permitted to copy in that gallery. I extremely advise your performing the identical.
Museums differ in permitting artists to do copies. In New York City, USA, the MMA does, but the Frick Collection and the Museum of Contemporary Art do not. Verify with your museum.
How it functions varies from museum to museum, but typically, you apply, get permission and adhere to that museum's guidelines. For instance, in the Louvre, and other museums, painters are not supposed to use the similar size canvas as the original. You cannot consume or drink in the museum, need to use a canvas drop cloth on the floor exactly where you paint on an easel and you will have to clean up completely right after each and every session. Some museums supply copyists locker area to leave their paintings and gear at the museum rather of bringing anything back and forth just about every day you want to copy through your month access to a painting gallery.
If you can not afford to go to an art school mainly because of time and/or dollars, study from the masters. If you can not get to a museum, copy the good paintings from reproductions. If you cannot get reproductions, you can locate them in library books or on the net.
What you can understand from copying the masters? Absolutely everyone is unique in their potential to extract facts from art instruction textbooks, videos or art classes. By copying a masterwork, you can find out a thing around the artist's strategy, handling of paint, use of colour, composition, form, drawing and so on.
Can you understand from copying excellent paintings? Michelangelo believed so.
The author has painted and taught for 50 years and has had more than 30 art exhibits of his paintings. My USA primarily based on the net art school has students in 19 nations. I have taught art classes at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and Manhattan, USA, Fairfield University in Fairfield, Connecticut, Popular Artists Schools in Westport, Connecticut, USA. I have also lectured on unique art subjects all more than the USA and in Holland, Belgium, France, South Africa and Australia.
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