Product Description

The Bargue-Gérôme Drawing Course is a complete reprint of a famous, late nineteenth century drawing course. It contains a set of almost two hundred masterful lithographs of subjects for copying by drawing students before they attempt drawing from life or nature. Consequently it is a book that will interest artists, art students, art historians, and lovers and collectors of drawings. It also introduces us to the work and life of a hitherto neglected master: Charles Bargue. Charles Bargue started his career as a lithographer of drawings by hack artists for a popular market in comic, sentimental and soft-porn subjects. By working with Gérôme, and in preparing the plates for the course, Bargue was transformed into a spectacular painter of single figures and intimate scenes; a master of precious details that always remain observation and never became self-conscious virtuosity, of color schemes that unified his composition in exquisite tonal harmonies.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #37090 in Books
• Published on: 2011-01-03
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 1.24" h x 9.91" w x 10.98" l, 3.99 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 336 pages

About the Author
Gerald Ackerman lives in California. Renowned specialist in nineteenth-century academic art, he is also the author of several books published by ACR Edition, including The Life and Work of Jean-Leon Gerome, with a second French edition revised and updated, and a paperback edition in English ('Jean-Leon Gerome, His Life, His Work'), 'The Orientalists of the British School' and 'The Orientalists of the American School'. Graydon Parrish is a renowned figurative painter, famous in the United States for his allegory often reproduced, 'Remorse, Despond, and Acceptance of An Early Death, the Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Massachusetts'.