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I had read in Italians do it better, an article on an exhibition of Academies who gave me wanting to know more, and regretted not being able to visit that which we spoke GF. After several revisions of its website, can not lay hands on this ticket, which would have interested to read before visiting the exhibition on the same topic held at the Museum of Fine Arts Bordeaux , exhibition is decidedly an obsession with us ended the day we visited. But, unlike Brussels, attendance was rather peaceful, and the visit was so enjoyable. A school of young Spaniards, armed to find details in the drawings, brightened the halls of the museum, and hard to find was a sight to see!

usually reserved for consultation by specialists, scholars and art historians, the museum's collection of drawings Bonna pride themselves on about 20,000 pieces, and this fund can reasonably claim the second French market after the Louvre, both in quantitative and qualitative terms. The requirement for art teachers to make a drawing a month teaching given in the fund of the School of Fine Arts, beginning in 1664, explains the richness of this collection. Desiring to host a public more, the Foundation Jean Bonna in 2005 established an association, the Cabinet of amateur drawings of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, whose mission is to enrich the collections, but also to publicize the fund. The exhibition in Bordeaux is part of the proposed extension.

We learn a model was chosen according to particularly strict criteria, including the "clean" either physical or moral, was certainly one of the most important. Their work was of course to ask, for two-hour session, and in positions more or less complicated or tiring, decided by the drawing master. Students, meanwhile, had to make a drawing done after three sittings, 6 hours, still having the right or duty, to complete and refine the "home"!

Where we see that the model St. Germain earned in a year that collected the art teacher for a lesson, it was necessary to provide lamp oil and coal stove, and where we retouve names of teachers recognized as Coypel ...

When exposures are complicated to be real tests of balance, we devise a machine, "Stabilairs" which consists of ropes and rods, prevents cramps and can hold more long convoluted postures imposed by some teachers. Increasingly tortuous and unnatural in the eighteenth century, most shameless, too, emphasizing the effort and the muscles. In addition to this work, the model was cleaning the studio, entrena the stove, was acting as caretaker, janitor, in a word, a handyman at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Some people spent their whole life like the famous Deschamps, clearly identified on the books of accounts and who lived there 48 years. Adonis at the old man, not all, you have obviously had a chance to meet him appearing in a few historical scenes or gender, because it worked for all the French painters of the eighteenth passed through the drawing school!

The drawing classes were supplemented by courses in perspective and even anatomy. Sometimes students were installed around the works, scultpure or painting from the royal collections, and ensuing debates and sessions critical to learn from the way the ancients.

One of these two designs is the work of Nattier, the other I do not know too much!

We also discover in this course, changing conceptions of gender and pedagogy. The blood that is needed in the years 1663-1675, then the black stone or matita that gum easily, up to three pencils honored De La Fosse, it perfectly follows the changing tastes and renderings. Some, like Diderot, were strongly criticized, even vilified, this mode of teaching the art of drawing: the author of the encyclopedia called himself disturbed by the "ghost moody" than he had allowed her 7 "cruel and painful" years at the Academy ... provided that he did not like the exercises required.

you to find the Nattier in these two poses are identical or almost!

Beyond the anecdotal, exposure is finally learning to read "talent" if the exercise proves cruel to some, including the trait is laborious, soft and lacking in verve, while it is embroiled in an application to succeed " beautiful face ", others like Boucher, Van Loo, Nattier unveil our eyes delighted their natural ease, their talent to handle light and biting portraits, in a word that nothing interferes with their virtuosity, not even the side all artificial learning.

And finally, to finish with a short game, you have one of 4 drawings find the intruder, ie a sketch performed by without a limited-grade talent, the three were performed with brio by Loo ...

PS response to the previous game was the intruder detail at top right, the little piece of landscape does not come from the Nativity of Schongauer. Other details, tasty, straw hat, canvas bags and leather purse from Saint Joseph having been bitten on the table itself.