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Herbert Arnould OlivierAcademic Study (Male Nude)1882
1882
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Charcoal on paper, signed by the artist (upper right), and RA visitor L. Alma Tadema, RA., and dated (lower left), 76cm x 57cm, (64cm x 88cm framed).
Olivier studied at the Royal Academy Schools from 1881, where this extraordinary display of drafting took place. Olivier exhibited extensively, including the Royal Academy starting in 1883, and the Paris Salon. He exhibited at the Fine Art Society in the 1880s and at the Grafton Galleries in 1908. An official war artist in the Great War, his work is included in the collection of the Imperial War Museum. It is also contained in many regional art galleries. Drawings of the nude, called academic studies, were central to academic art training in Europe from the 16th century onwards. The practice of repeatedly drawing the nude, and particularly the male nude, has its roots in the Italian Renaissance. Bodies were drawn standing, sitting, kneeling, curling up or stretching, in movement or at rest, sometimes tightly framed. They are shown from front and back, in three-quarter profile and from high and low angles. And, while all the drawings reflect the same essential study of the nude model – his anatomy, musculature and as a three dimensional form – the choice of position adopted reflect particular concerns, such as the sense of movement in a figure, muscle tension and balanced proportions, powerful musculature or the technique of foreshortening and perspective. This practice, started as a student, would continue throughout an artist's career.
- Creator:Herbert Arnould Olivier (1861 - 1952, British)
- Creation Year:1882
- Dimensions:Height: 34.65 in (88 cm)Width: 25.2 in (64 cm)Depth: 1.19 in (3 cm)
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- Gallery Location:London, GB
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