The symbolic power of the human form to communicate cannot be overstated, providing the visual artist with a definitive metaphor and idea. Whether in honoring God or questioning the very nature of humanity, the human figure becomes an emblem for the imagination, tracking paths of affinity toward the beautiful, the tragic, the suggestive, or the traditional.
A steady involvement with Life Drawing, together with guiding principles of artistic anatomy, the artist becomes liberated from preconceptions about the figure’s seeming complexities, and through understanding, the form can be handled essentially---with simplicity and feeling! The practitioner of figure drawing accepts the disciplines of a sublime, perceptive process, observing: Gestalt/proportion; rhythm/movement; figure-ground/space; angular intersection/shape; persona/identity----asserting these transformative theories signified, in a most eminent drawing.
