ROBERTO OSTI
03/27/2022
Michelangelo: Bust of Brutus Michelangelo: Bust of Brutus – Demos from my Cast Drawing #5: the Male Head Session Michelangelo […]
03/03/2022
Michelangelo: Male Back With a Flag Demos from my Drawing with… Michelangelo! Session This beautiful study by Michelangelo, portrays the back […]
03/01/2021
The hand is a marvel of functionality and aesthetics.
The complexity of its forms and its inherent mutability
make it a challenging but extremely rewarding subject.
This complexity can be better understood by
conceptualizing its forms. In my anatomy and
figure-drawing classes, I teach my students to focus
on only a few essential characteristics of the hand at
any given time, limiting its complexity. This method—
which can be applied to other subjects as well—was
developed during the Renaissance and has been
further refined since.
05/25/2020
Contrapposto describes a category of pose that artists have favored for thousands of years.
Even though “contrapposto” is an Italian word, the earliest sculptures that depict the human body posed in this specific stance date back to the 5th century B.C. in classical Greece.
The typical contrapposto pose shows the counterposing of various segments of the figure: The pelvis and rib cage are tilted in opposite directions, and one leg is straight while the other is bent.
This deliberate counterposing can contribute various expressive qualities to a figure.
