![]() ![]() Nothing like the Dictionary has ever been published. With a structural vocabulary you will be able to freely express your vision through images of the body. Without it the art will be weak and over simplified. The understanding of structure is the artist's vocabulary of form. ![]() However with over eight-hundred explanatory pages and over two thousand illustrations, the reader can develop a structural way of seeing and understanding the body. Of course, the infinite variety of body actions, light directions, and angles of view cannot be contained between the covers of any one book. The Dictionary of Human Form is designed to fill that need. It was apparent that after the predominance of non-figurative styles it had become very difficult to find any in-depth teaching of structure. He realized that there was a great need to understand the structural organization of the body. Over the years, Mr Jacobs became acutely aware of the lack of structural knowledge of art students. Additionally, he taught at the New York Academy and in 1987 opened his own school in France. Thirty years later he returned to have his own class at the League. After completing four intensive years there he continued teaching privately. The author, Ted Seth Jacobs, began teaching sixty-five years ago as an occasional substitute for his teacher at the Art Students League of New York. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |