[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] [LCTG Matters] Meeting Reminder:Hockney-Falco Thesis on the history of art, presented by Harry Forsdick . 10AM ET, Wednesday, December 6, 2023. Lexington Computer and Technology Group

Wed Dec 6 12:07:30 PST 2023

Ted’s post reminds me:  During Harry’s presentation, I was troubled by what seemed to me to be the assumption that artist’s models posed, inertly, for superhumanly long times, and that detail in the paintings was quasi-photographic.
Couldn’t artists have sort of filled in (invented) details after making “good enough” sketches or initial paintings?  It would be analogous to what is done in the writing of historical novels (the novelist “fills in” things where the historical record is hazy or incomplete).
    – Mike Alexander

On Wednesday, December 6, 2023, 12:35 PM, Ted Kochanski via LCTG <lctg at lists.toku.us> wrote:

All,
A most unusual topic and most interesting -- we should have more of these mixed into the more typical material
Ted
By the way another obscure aspect of art is how do you get the model to pose in challenging postures for extended time -- or do you need a photo.An excellent example is one of my favorite pix at the MFA  -- a huge 19th C French Academy painting Automedon with the Horses of Achilles -- 1868 by the obscure French academic painter Henri Regnault (French, 1843–1871) -- currently on view in The Beal Gallery (Gallery 251) {French 19th C but not impressionists}
MEDIUM/TECHNIQUE Oil on canvas
DIMENSIONS 315 x 329 cm (124 x 129 1/2 in.)
CREDIT LINE Museum purchase with funds donated by contribution
ACCESSION NUMBER 90.152
https://collections.mfa.org/objects/31014
When you see Automedon, Achilles' charioteer, holding the bridal of one of Achilles', massive chariot horses -- supernaturally charged-up and ready for the final showdown at Troy -- there is an Arnold Swartzeneger-like definition of the muscles involved under such amazing tension beginning at the ankle up the leg and through the chest through the shoulder and up the arm to the forearm.  To achieve that pose, the model must have been almost suspended by one arm.  Even if the painter was very fast in sketching, or if there was photographic assistance -- I hope that the model got paid well -- I feel the pain everytime I look at the painting.
Ted
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